Dr. Stevens is a Managing Director and co-founder of DC Energy. He helped launch all power trading activities at DC Energy and is responsible for DC Energy’s involvement with regulatory proceedings and ISO/RTO market affairs. 

In 2007, Dr. Stevens helped create the platform for an auction exchange of nodal energy products that forms the basis for Nodal Exchange, LLC, an emerging exchange for cleared power contracts. Prior to DC Energy, Dr. Stevens worked as a Vice President with Dean & Company, a strategy consulting firm, where he developed the business model for DC Energy and managed the development of many of the analytical tools and processes that drive DC Energy’s investment strategy. 

He has six years of consulting experience to large corporations in the telecommunications and energy industries on a range of business strategy and management issues. His work in the telecommunications industry has comprised sales and marketing strategy, product/network economics, and customer value assessment. 

His previous consulting experience in the energy business is extensive, with casework involving performance improvement, mergers, acquisitions, deal valuation, energy price forecasting, transaction strategy, transmission analysis and commodity risk hedging. 

Dr. Stevens received a Ph.D. degree in Chemical Physics from Harvard University where he developed new synthetic and analytical techniques for novel amorphous materials. He graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry from the California Institute of Technology, where he received the Caltech Prize for academic excellence. Dr. Stevens was awarded graduate fellowships from both the National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research (Department of Defense).