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Ed Bell is a Principal with Smith Street Advisors as an integration and management consultant to the energy and utility industries, specializing in risk management and transaction capture and reporting systems.
Ed's career includes over 25 years of technical, managerial and executive positions in industry and as a consultant to industry. He has worked on risk management technology, strategic review and organizational realignment topics for the oil and gas, merchant energy, utility and IPP sectors within the energy industry. His assignments have spanned the energy value chain including large systems implementations in risk management and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance review and remediation.
Prior to Smith Street Advisors, Ed was the North American energy trading practice lead at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, the successor to E&Y's energy trading and risk management practice. He has held multiple executive level positions in industry and consulting including divisional CIO for the wholesale trading division of Florida Power & Light Company and was one of the principal developers of the natural gas and wholesale electricity commodity risk management infrastructure at a major industry pioneer.