Currently Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Integral Analytics, Dr. Skinner has over 15 years of energy industry experience. Prior to joining Integral Analytics, Dr. Skinner spent 5 years as the Derivative Structuring Manager for Sempra Energy Solutions, a national energy supplier, focused on developing retail commodity supply strategies including portfolio risk management, hedging strategy, and least-cost supply opportunities.

Having worked with several energy consulting companies including Summit Blue Consulting, RDI Consulting and PHB Hagler Bailly, Dr. Skinner has significant experience in economic analysis and modeling of energy demand, forward energy prices, financial derivatives, transmission and pipeline capacity, natural gas storage, and generation assets using econometric time-series and cross-sectional analysis, statistical methods, optimization principles, and real option valuation techniques.

Dr. Skinner holds a PhD from Colorado School of Mines in Mineral Economics, and a MBA from Regis University in Operations Management. He is fully trained in econometric methods, engineering principles, hedging and risk management principles, organizational development, optimization, and valuation techniques and has extensive experience with various software packages including Visual Basic, C++, SAS, SPSS, Crystal Ball, Matlab, GAMS, IREMM and ProSym.