Alex Blackford

Head of IT and Digital - Shell Energy (Trading) Europe @Shell

End-to-end accountability across the IT/digital lifecycle - from strategy definition, project/product delivery through to ongoing support/maintenance. Over the past 15 years, I have built both breath and depth of experience across front, mid and back office gas, power, LNG and environmental products marketing and trading technology domains. Snapshot of experience: Enabling energy trading market participation - broker/exchange connectivity and delivery of automated and algorithmic execution capabilities, primarily in the European market. Multiple energy trade risk management system implementations/upgrades; FIS/ION + custom - spanning Europe, North America, Asia and Australia. Energy logistics (gas/power asset onboarding, scheduling, forecasting/optimisation, nomination and balancing)- both in-house and vendor solutions spanning Europe, North America, Asia and Australia Compliance/regulatory reporting capabilities spanning REMIT, EMIR and Dodd Frank + trade surveillance/monitoring. Last but of course, far from least - a plethora of Cloud-based energy market fundamentals and front, mid and back office analytics capabilities that underpin today’s integrated energy businesses!