Richard Stuebi has nearly 20 years of experience as an executive,
entrepreneur and consultant in the energy industry, with most
of the past decade focused on advanced energy technologies
and business opportunities.
Since founding NextWave Energy in 1999, Mr. Stuebi has assisted
several clients with new energy businesses or technologies
in various aspects of business development, including strategy
and capital formation. Reflecting NextWave Energy's
entrepreneurial interests, Mr. Stuebi has also participated
directly in the founding and management of certain energy-related
ventures.
Mr. Stuebi is currently the BP Fellow for Energy and Environmental
Advancement at The
Cleveland Foundation, where he works with various public
and private sector stakeholders to promote commercial activity
in advanced energy in the Cleveland area.
Previously, for over 6 years at McKinsey & Co., Mr. Stuebi
was a management consultant exclusively serving clients worldwide
on energy-related topics. During his tenure at McKinsey, Mr.
Stuebi primarily assisted clients on developing strategies
and enhancing organizational capabilities to help them prepare
for the onset of deregulation and restructuring in the electricity
sector. He worked for extended periods with two of the five
largest U.S. electric utilities, helping them position for
success in the increasingly competitive industry. He also
aided several other electric utilities, large energy consumers,
fuel suppliers, and independent power producers to anticipate
and capitalize on the major changes occurring in the energy
sector.
Before founding NextWave Energy, Mr. Stuebi was a Senior Vice
President at Louis Dreyfus, the global commodity trading firm.
At Louis Dreyfus, he was responsible for North American electric
and gas business development activities.
In the late 1980's, Mr. Stuebi spent nearly 4 years as an
analyst of the North American electricity and coal industries
at ICF Resources, a leading economic and environmental consulting
firm based in the Washington DC area. Mr. Stuebi's work in
analyzing the economic impacts of alternative acid rain legislation
approaches was instrumental in the creation of sulfur dioxide
emission allowances as part of the Clean Air Act Amendments
of 1990.
From this long history of focused experience in the energy
industry, Mr. Stuebi has wide knowledge of energy sector participants,
activities, economics and regulations, and has formed strong
business perspectives on the energy sector's likely evolution
and business strategies to capture emerging opportunities
in the evolving marketplace.
Mr. Stuebi has authored several articles that have appeared
in such leading industry periodicals as TheElectricityJournal
and PublicUtilitiesFortnightly, and has presented
at numerous major energy conferences. He is also a weekly
contributor to www.cleantechblog.com.
Before embarking upon his professional
career, Mr. Stuebi earned degrees in Economics from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (1984) and Stanford University (1986).
|
