Mark Gabriel is the Senior Vice President of Strategy and Business Process for Black and Veatch, working with global clients in the development and execution of strategic initiatives. He leads Black and Veatch’s Pathfinder group as well as industry verticals in electricity, water, oil and gas and manages its Business Process Group of professionals whose activities include rates and regulatory, resource planning, transmission, natural gas and water. In addition, he leads the company cyber security practice.
Mark has worked across a broad set of industry issues from advanced metering and intelligent infrastructure to advanced generation, gas and oil technology deployments. He has developed several proprietary analytic techniques in mergers and acquisitions, technology roadmapping and strategic messaging. His clients include some of the nation’s largest investor-owned utilities as well as a number of co-ops, G&Ts, municipal entities, NASA, DOE, the State of Maryland and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. In addition he has worked with a number of water agencies and natural gas companies.
Prior to joining Black and Veatch Mark headed up the North American expansion into the power business for Halcrow, a 158-year-old British firm. He built the company’s North American energy practice. Mark also was a Senior Vice President for Energy as well as an executive management consultant and principal with R.W. Beck, a national engineering-based consulting firm. He is a well known speaker and writer and his book, Visions for a Sustainable Energy Future won the 2009 Indie Excellence Book Award for environmental writing.
Mark was the Chief Executive Officer of Positive Energy Directions, which was acquired by R.W. Beck in 2006. Prior to founding Positive Energy Directions, Mark spent eight years as the Electric Power Research Institute’s Acting President and was Chief Marketing and Sales Officer. On behalf of the EPRI Board, Mark led the Electricity Sector Framework for the Future, a collaborative effort to shape the technical, economic and regulatory future of the U.S. electricity industry.
Mark serves on the Board of Directors of Argos Utilities Inc. and is a former Director of Plexus Research (acquired by R.W. Beck in 2007), PEAC and Primen, two former subsidiaries of the Electric Power Research Institute.
Mark has worked across a broad set of industry issues from advanced metering and intelligent infrastructure to advanced generation, gas and oil technology deployments. He has developed several proprietary analytic techniques in mergers and acquisitions, technology roadmapping and strategic messaging. His clients include some of the nation’s largest investor-owned utilities as well as a number of co-ops, G&Ts, municipal entities, NASA, DOE, the State of Maryland and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. In addition he has worked with a number of water agencies and natural gas companies.
Prior to joining Black and Veatch Mark headed up the North American expansion into the power business for Halcrow, a 158-year-old British firm. He built the company’s North American energy practice. Mark also was a Senior Vice President for Energy as well as an executive management consultant and principal with R.W. Beck, a national engineering-based consulting firm. He is a well known speaker and writer and his book, Visions for a Sustainable Energy Future won the 2009 Indie Excellence Book Award for environmental writing.
Mark was the Chief Executive Officer of Positive Energy Directions, which was acquired by R.W. Beck in 2006. Prior to founding Positive Energy Directions, Mark spent eight years as the Electric Power Research Institute’s Acting President and was Chief Marketing and Sales Officer. On behalf of the EPRI Board, Mark led the Electricity Sector Framework for the Future, a collaborative effort to shape the technical, economic and regulatory future of the U.S. electricity industry.
Mark serves on the Board of Directors of Argos Utilities Inc. and is a former Director of Plexus Research (acquired by R.W. Beck in 2007), PEAC and Primen, two former subsidiaries of the Electric Power Research Institute.