Mark Friedman

About Mark Friedman

I’m an energy trading executive and transformation consultant with 30+ years across…

Experience

1. CEO

   Valprime L.L.C

   Mar 2013 — Present · Houston, TX, US

   Completed the successful integration of NRG’s $2.6 billion acquisition of Edison Mission. Responsible for 14 professionals across all work streams integrating 7,967 Mw of generation and corresponding fuels, the nation’s largest, and most complex portfolio of FTRs, credit, contracts, FCMs, and all commodity and interest rate transactions.• Lead Analyst for EDF Energy North America for the implementation of Endur V16 focused on settlements, market risk and data conversion from the legacy platform EKA. • Responsible for a 100 seat implementation and development of next generation analytics and reporting framework for Shell Trading crude and products. Implementing complex proof of concept designs demonstrating in-memory analytics and reporting on the Qlikview platform. Developing transformational business process changes from a next day reporting framework to a same day analytics framework.• Lead business analyst in a major system development project to create the swap dealer entity Shell Trading Risk Management. Providing critical system enhancements to insure Dodd-Frank compliance and reporting. • Delivered system integration of Castleton Commodities $1.5 billion acquisition of Morgan Stanley’s physical crude business. The sale included a diversified international network of oil terminal storage agreements; inventory; physical oil purchase, sale and supply agreements; and freight shipping contracts.• Lead data conversion business analyst completing a successful go live of Endur V11 for Shell Trading North America Crude business. Led supplemental upgrades to deliver functional and technical upgrades to the platform.• Engaged as front office and middle office business analyst for successful go live of Endur V14 for Shell Trading North America Products trading business. Developed End-of-Day (EOD) data warehouse and reporting solution.

Education

• Texas A&M University - Mays Business School

  MBA

  2009 — 2011

• Texas A&M University

  Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA)

  1991 — 1995

Skills

• Vba
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act
• Business Intelligence
• Restructuring
• Derivatives
• Financial Analysis
• Energy Industry
• Energy
• Etrm
• Risk Analysis
• Commodity
• Qlikview
• Trading Systems
• Valuation
• Energy Markets
• Tableau
• Swaps
• Options
• Financial Risk
• Asset Management
• Renewable Energy
• Market Risk
• Due Diligence
• Risk Management
• Hedge Funds
• Equities
• Structured Finance
• Executive Management
• Capital Markets
• Financial Structuring
• Trading Strategies
• Acquisition Integration
• Enterprise Risk Management
• Portfolio Management
• Natural Gas
• Electricity Markets
• Project Finance
• Trading
• Investment Banking
• Mergers & Acquisitions