Candidate ID: 2701-H

Written By Molly Engwerda

Professional Summary

With over 25 years across U.S. power and natural gas markets, this candidate is a rare commercial leader who combines deep trading fluency with proven platform-build experience at PE-backed IPPs. She has led the transition of businesses from development-only models into fully integrated owner-operators, building end-to-end commercial functions spanning origination, risk, trading, M&A support, and revenue optimization. Recruited into high-complexity environments, she is known for building durable teams, shaping merchant risk intelligently, and operating with credibility across investors, counterparties, and boards. Based in Houston, she brings nationwide market coverage across PJM, ERCOT, MISO, and SERC.

Key Achievements

  • Built a 15-person commercial organization from scratch within a PE-owned IPP, integrating origination, trading, analytics, risk, and PPA compliance to support hyperscale-grade counterparties and long-duration contracts.

  • Led commercial strategy and execution for ~5 GW of corporate PPAs, acting as senior commercial interface to hyperscalers and large data-centre customers, and positioning the platform as the #1 global corporate PPA provider for three consecutive years.

  • Designed and governed complex framework agreements supporting hyperscaler demand, including back-to-back structures across multiple portfolio companies while balancing customer concentration risk and merchant exposure.

  • Oversaw 1 GW+ of operational and late-stage assets, developing proprietary pricing curves, congestion strategy, and DA/RT optimization models tailored to the load profiles and risk tolerances of large digital infrastructure customers.

  • Built differentiated commercial capability spanning structured origination, merchant risk, storage strategy, and long-term fundamentals, enabling competitive bids for data-centre-driven load growth beyond traditional RFP-only processes.

For more information on this candidate, please reach out to our Managing Partner:

Harry Davies: harry@netzero-search.com

Molly Engwerda
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