Who Are Vervantis?

Mark is an experienced energy professional with over 20 years spent in the global energy wholesale, retail, and advisory space. Recognized as one of the industry’s leading authorities on energy risk management, Mark obtained his MSc in finance from London Business School in 1998 and received the prestigious Accomplished Entrepreneur of the Year 2012 award from the London Business School Alumni.

Founded in 2016, Vervantis is an independent specialist in energy management solutions for industrial and commercial businesses, focusing on the North American electricity and natural gas markets.

Prior to Vervantis, in 2001, Mark founded Encore International where he built an energy services business specializing in energy price risk management for large energy consumers. He successfully sold Encore in 2010 to M&C Energy Group, where he took on the role of CEO of the entire group. He grew the business organically and through acquisitions, transforming it into a global platform that served over 1,000 of the world’s largest energy consumers who represent over $12bn in energy spend. He sold M&C to Schneider Electric in June of 2012.

Since the time when energy supply markets liberalized in the early nineties, Dan has been helping enterprise clients realize their energy goals.  In the early years working for TXU in Europe, Dan managed large C&I customers with their natural gas and power requirements, before transferring to the Trading Partnerships team, who provided more sophisticated sourcing solutions to end users.  This role introduced distributed generation and upstream natural gas experience before a relocation to Milan, Italy to lead TXU’s entrance to European energy markets.

Prior to Vervantis, in 2004 Dan became co-owner Encore International, a European energy services business specializing in energy price risk management for C&I customers. Dan developed and grew this start-up into the largest independent advisor by volume in the UK, successfully selling it in 2010 to Schneider Electric.

John is an experienced energy industry veteran of over 9 years in the North America market.  Based in Phoenix, Arizona, John honed his skills with two of the largest global energy advisors in various operational and analytical capacities.  Previously he has worked as a client manager to Fortune 500 companies and a project manager for large commercial and industrial projects.

An expert in utility optimization, John managed a consulting project to municipalize the electric utility for a city and has been instrumental in multiple process efficiency and big data analysis projects.  John’s experience is particularly valuable given the increase in corporate and commercial renewable energy incentives across the Americas.  He has overseen and financially modeled several renewable energy projects over 200MW for both producers and consumers to find viable off-take agreements to underpin project financing using purchase power agreements (PPA) or dynamic hedging.  John has experience developing complex hedging strategies for long-term energy purchases.

John has a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University.  John’s background is in Finance and Information Technology.

David has for over 40 years, displayed expert knowledge in the design, installation, and analysis from the simplest to the most complex energy-consuming systems in the commercial, industrial and institutional sectors. Dave’s approach to energy reduction is to solve the problems that cause excessive usage through engineering principals, technology, and practical application.

Accredited LEED Green Associate, Certified Commercial Energy Auditor, Energy Efficiency Engineering, Master Plumber, R.E. Broker. Member USGBC, ASHRAE, NESEA, NESI & AZREIA.

Chris has over forty years of experience in the energy industry, beginning as an engineer for a large Midwestern electric utility. He began his career there in the Power Operations Department conducting various tests on large coal-fired generating plants. Chris worked for many years for a large national retailer before joining a multi-national energy consulting firm as a client manager.

Chris has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Business Administration. He is also a registered engineer in the State of Missouri.