Mark has 34 years of experience in the energy industry as a consultant, analyst, manager, executive, and professor. He has worked for a utility consulting practice, a gas distribution company, an end-user consulting company, a metals company, a retail energy provider, a broker, and a university. 

Recently, Mark has provided consulting services to stakeholders across the energy industry in procurement, product development, strategic planning, budget development, mergers and acquisitions, supply planning, regulatory issues, cost of service, rate design, and sustainability strategy for wind, solar, storage, geothermal, and thermal energy networks. This work has most recently focused on thermal networks in Massachusetts and New York where clients include real estate developers and cooperatives, investor-owned utilities, and clean energy incubators. Specifically, Mark is managing a significant research project on geothermal technologies in Massachusetts, assisting a utility in New York State with thermal energy network applications, and developing non-pipeline alternative proposals for natural gas distribution companies in the New York City region.

In other roles, Mark has been responsible for the operations of a premier energy consulting group including all analytics, energy market analysis, pricing, regulatory issues, market development, financial analysis, procurement strategy and the training, guidance, and direction of the entire analyst team. He has overseen development, implementation, and life cycle management of product suites (both commodity and non-commodity) for a retail energy provider as well as provided technical support to close complex transactions and products. He has applied his experience and expertise to the development, implementation, and execution of strategy for the energy portfolio of an aluminum corporation with spend exceeding $200 million. In that role, he was responsible for the complete dynamic removal of the 535 MW load from the host utility to a unique, non-adjacent control area.

Mark’s work with utilities includes managing natural gas strategic planning projects for hundreds of large industrial clients in the U.S. and Canada, including transportation optimization, gas supply planning, and risk management and procurement. He has also managed all natural gas supply, transportation, storage, and peak shaving planning and operations for a local distribution company in Pittsburgh.

Mark has provided expert testimony before the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission on both gas cost recovery and electricity restructuring proceedings. He has testified at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission, and the New York Public Service Commission on natural gas cost of service and rate design. He has also sponsored testimony before the West Virginia and Kentucky Public Service Commissions as well as on capital and operating budget proceedings before the Philadelphia Gas Commission. He has recently testified before the Philadelphia City Council and the Massachusetts State Senate on decarbonization topics.

In addition, Mark teaches courses in renewable energy project management and finance, renewable energy integration and economics, and energy markets at Penn State University. He has also received a patent for the development of an energy procurement reverse auction platform.

Mark holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Arts Degree in Economics from Penn State University, where he also earned distinction for a Master of Professional Studies in Renewable Energy Systems and Sustainability.