Zach is PowerOptions’ Senior Energy Markets Analyst and leads PowerOptions’ Commodity program. In his role, Zach helps PowerOptions members properly navigate the complexities of the New England electricity and natural gas markets. He helps members and staff stay up to date with current trends in these markets and helps members create successful energy purchasing strategies to best meet their goals. He also ensures that members are well informed about new energy policies and market changes and how to best address them.

Zach has more than half a decade of energy markets and sustainability experience across the US. He has helped manage relationships and energy and sustainability purchasing strategies and budgeting for numerous hospital systems, real estate trusts, cities and towns, and large industrial customers. He has also helped customers maneuver energy market rules and program changes across ISO-NE, NYISO, PJM, ERCOT, and CAISO. Prior to joining PowerOptions, Zach worked as a Senior Energy Markets and Sustainability Analyst at Veolia North America where he managed a number of large and diverse clients. Before Veolia, Zach worked at Enel Green Power as an Energy Trading Analyst trading energy from wind assets and at Competitive Energy Services as an Energy Analyst assisting customers analyze their energy data and procurement strategies.

Zach holds a Master of Science in Energy Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where he did extensive research on flow batteries and their economic viability. In his free time, he writes for the Android Police tech blog and enjoys spending time outside, cardio kickboxing, and playing board games with friends and family.