Finario Webinar: Challenges & Opportunities for Capital Planning in the Utilities Sector

Get frontline perspectives on the changing capital planning landscape in utilities

Energy affordability and equity … legislative and regulatory actions … maintaining an aging infrastructure … investing in new technologies … providing returns to shareholders: finance leaders in the utilities sector have much to consider as they help plot the course of their companies.

In this session, we’ll explore how the industry must evolve its capital planning (Capex) strategies to adapt and prosper, along with some of the tools that can be invaluable in making sound decisions.

Joining us will be two utilities industry experts, John Chevrette and Tim Bulman, from the global business consulting firm, Partitive. With its deep roots in serving the utilities industry and relationships with some of the most respected companies in the sector, they bring a balanced and unique perspective on the industry’s most pressing challenges and emerging opportunities. Moreover, solution engineers from Finario will demonstrate the company’s capital planning and portfolio management platform.

Topics include:

Industry trends shaping critical business decisions
Capital planning implications of those trends
Organizational roles and responsibilities: C-suite, finance, operations, regulatory, etc.
Success drivers: people, processes, technologies
How a purpose-built capital planning solution can help meet these needs
Q&A

This is one session you won’t want to miss.

Speakers

John Chevrette:

John Chevrette is Managing Director, Power and Utilities at global consulting firm Protiviti. He is an experienced global Consulting business unit leader, corporate executive Committee member, P&L owner/operator, and growth leader. John advises CXOs and other senior executives in the energy, utilities, water, resources, and technology sectors as they define and implement new strategies and business models across a wide range of disciplines. He has diverse experiences in global strategy, IT/OT, energy, climate/sustainability, renewables, de-carbonization, water, finance, “smart technology and infrastructure”, “clean-tech” and Telecommunications markets. Prior to joining Protiviti, John held executive and senior leadership positions at Black and Veatch, Ernst and Young, SAIC, KEMA, Navigant Consulting, CSC/Index, Booz Allen and Hamilton among others.

Tim Bulman:

Tim is a Managing Director in Protiviti’s Business Performance Improvement practice. He has over 20 years of experience working with leading utilities helping them transform their businesses to stay ahead and adapt to market challenges.

Bill Mayo:

Bill Mayo is a Solutions Engineer at Finario. He specializes in comprehensive presentations of the Finario platform, analysis of potential customers’ current state of Capex planning, and their future state solution with Finario.

Prior to joining the company, Bill’s experience consisted of software engineering and QA automation with Seva enterprise search (SaaS), as well as QA/product consulting with various startups in the iOS/mobile space. He also has experience developing and testing APIs across multiple industries.