Yes Energy is full of power market data experts.
Both collectively at Yes Energy and individually, our professionals have spent many years perfecting technical design to optimize a platform that answers trading questions. The Yes Energy team has a deep background in solving the problems of real-time, big data collection and validation, database design and speed.
The business is home to a unique group of economists, industry analysts, database gurus, software developers and mathematicians who love turning large amounts of data into valuable insight. Our business team-- sales, customer outreach and administration-- is made up of professionals who have grown their careers in the energy markets information space and who pride themselves in establishing customer relationships that last.

"the best people at their job that I have ever worked with"
Meet our amazing team.
And rollover the photos to discover what they’ll ALWAYS say yes to.
Tom Ottem
Content Group Organizer
Tom is passionate about quantitative visualization (nerd-speak for making charts and maps). He also has a unique, soup-to-nuts understanding of customer needs, software product management, power market design, ISO data and everything in between. We’re thinking of cloning him.
Brett Turner
Content Group
Brett is in our Boston office where he develops product and provides the early AM customer support, as well as helps manage and maintain data collection and organization. Thoroughly answering a customer’s question is what makes his day!
Gary Meisner
Content Group
Gary is a go-to guy for translating messy, granular ISO market data into consistent, usable information. Some things you figure out after 10 years in the business. He’s also on the phone helping customers all the time.
Aaron Brasket
Content Group
Aaron’s having a good day when he can add value to data. He believes that commodity data is just the beginning and that the value is in combining data types and providing tools that help our customers gain insight from data.
Bryan Johnson
Content Group
Bryan is an expert in generation, price and transmission data. He is also passionate about making sure we’re the first to collect and release data for new markets and new trade types … which is trickier than you might think.
Sonya Gustafson
Content Group
Sonya is pumped about power markets and loves to share her energy and excitement with Yes Energy customers. She enjoys finding the pieces and putting the puzzle together to help make the complicated seem simple.
Jacquie Walker
Content Group
Jacquie was a power trader who used Yes Energy solutions to make great decisions for many years. She joined Yes Energy to help us move our solutions even closer to our users’ needs. It’s great to have a real live trader on the team!
Alison Madigan
Content Group
Allison is an economist with an affinity for using technology to extract insight from large amounts of real time data. She joined Yes Energy as an intern and then quickly transitioned to become a member of the team. Allison loves figuring out complex energy markets and using her expertise to make data make sense for our users.
Nick Shaffer
Content Group
Nick has a passion for improving efficiency with sound data analytics and algorithmic optimization. He loves working with power markets because of all the odd complexities they have that other financial markets don't. Seriously though, negative prices? Come on...
Cory Goode
Content Group
Cory is energized about power markets and big data. Translating the intricacies of market information into something meaningful provides a fun challenge. Cory was recently reassigned from Senior Intern to Market Analyst, although for some reason he still comes to work with a smile.
Ian Wilcox
Outreach, Sales & Marketing Group Organizer
Ian loves customers and has been around this space for a long time. He knows that success is first, last and always about serving customers often saying “If you can't serve your customers why bother?”
Richard Luck
Outreach, Sales & Marketing Group
If you’re lucky enough to have worked with Richard, you know what a super guy he is. He is committed to customer satisfaction and ensures that the process of becoming a Yes Energy customer is smooth and helpful.
Katie Becht
Outreach, Sales & Marketing Group
Katie wants to make sure you get the most from Yes Energy! Her past work in energy information prepped her perfectly to pair with Yes Energy where she loves being able to help people use a solution that makes their lives easier.
Jesse Carver
Outreach, Sales & Marketing Group
Jesse is good at matching customer needs with solutions, and he loves working with people. He’s done that across an array of energy industry information businesses before joining Yes Energy. Now he enjoys introducing our tools to power traders.
KC Hallett
Outreach, Sales & Marketing Group
KC has experience in analytics, energy and communication. This trifecta makes her excellent at her job tracking all of the details while also managing to get to know our customers and make sure they are satisfied.
Malia Martinez
Outreach, Sales & Marketing Group
Malia brings a wide range of experience with her to Yes Energy including customer service, education and business analysis both in and out of the energy industry. She loves helping customers and working as part of a team; especially the Yes Energy team where her teammates are professional, fun and so good at what they do!
Michael McNair
Admin Group Organizer
As the founder of Yes Energy, Michael brought with him a solid background in LMP markets, but also a strong curiosity about and passion for helping the people who trade in those markets do something new with 'all that data'.
Sarah Hatch
Admin Group
Sarah has an education background and uses these skills to create training and Help documentation for Yes Energy. She loves organizing and presenting information in accessible ways and helping people make relevant connections to our products.
Susan Nuzum
Admin Group
Susan uses her business skills to keep us all on track. Making lists and writing checks, Susan keeps the finances at Yes Energy running smoothly so that we can spend our time helping customers with our products.
Jen Greene
Admin Group
Jen is a business person with a pretty long career in energy information businesses. She puts her leadership experience to good use helping Yes Energy to grow.
Scott Holladay
Admin Group
Scott is Yes Energy’s Chief Economist and resident quant. As a professor of economics he provides us with valuable and current insight into the energy markets.
Kimberly Cox
Admin Group
Kimberly is passionate about people and creating an environment where they can achieve their goals. She is focused on recruiting, retaining and growing Yes Energy talent. As a Six Sigma black belt and a former family counselor - she is a bit of a conundrum. We like that about her.
Andy Lewis
Database Group Organizer
Andy is the database pioneer at Yes Energy. He built the first data structures and now he works with an amazing team to make sure our market data is reliable and fast. With years of energy data experience under his belt, he welcomes new challenges that keep his work interesting.
John Lien
Database Group
John designs techniques that allow our customers to do more “stuff” with data than they’ve ever been able to do before. A magician with a database, John will be sure to get you the data you need in the way that you need it.
Peter Richardson
Database Group
Peter loves problem-solving … whether it’s a programming conundrum, a tricky question from a customer or a good game of chess. At Yes Energy he spends his time developing some of the most challenging enhancements to our trader solutions.
Peter Watson
Database Group
Like the rest of us, Peter is passionate about data quality and speed. You’ll find Peter doing the difficult database work so that our users can avoid the hassles of ISO market data collection. Fortunately, he loves it!
David Barnes
Database Group
Dave has spent his career working to optimize, automate and scale information systems with a primary focus on optimal database design. He enjoys digging into "the next big evolution" when it comes to scaling operational databases and its supporting infrastructure.
Michael Burt
Database Group
Michael helps collect, organize and extract value for massive troves of energy data. Although an economist at heart, nowadays he thoroughly enjoys the challenges of data aggregation and analytics.
Josh Vanderberg
Application Development Group Organizer
Josh is a veteran user interface developer who specializes in distilling massive data sets into intuitive software tools. Josh is passionate about constant product and process improvement "No matter how good things are, there's always something you can do to move your team and your product in a better direction."
Isaac Velander
Application Development Group
Isaac is driven to use the latest web technologies to bring visibility to the electric power markets all the while building beautiful, fun to use, data visualizations.
Tarah West
Application Development Group
A self-proclaimed geek, Tarah likes to work the entire software stack from front-end Flex through to the database. Presented with a new challenge Tarah tackles things head on ready to make sure problems get solved and software improves.
Eric Marscin
Application Development Group
Eric thrives on the positive feedback he gets when a new feature has made a customer’s life a bit easier. So be sure to keep those enhancement requests coming his way!
Daniel Hassouni
Application Development Group
Daniel loves to solve problems, whether it be a bug buried deep in code or understanding the peculiarities of the power markets. With nearly a decade of experience trading in the energy markets, Daniel applies his market expertise in creating intuitive interfaces and an overall improved user experience.
Kevin Noonan
Application Development Group
Kevin is interested in making robust and intuitive user interfaces. He loves beautiful data representations that convey trends simply. Kevin strives for designs that allow users to immediately jump in and get to work.
Chris Gibbons
Consulting Group Organizer
Chris loves deeply understanding client problems and piecing together a solution. He applies his skills in databases, risk analysis, and management consulting to support Yes Energy clients with enhancements and extensions to the Yes Energy product suite.
Becca Geraci
Consulting Group
Becca loves teaching others to understand the ISO markets and how our solutions help users make better trading decisions. She’s been in “the industry” longer than she’s been at Yes Energy so she really knows what she’s talking about.