Ed Young, VP Commercial Operations 

In his role as VP Commercial Ops of Mansfield Power and Gas, LLC, Ed oversees all operations activities of the company. He is directly involved with daily forecasting and purchasing operations, risk management, customer care and billing. 

Mr. Young earned a civil engineering degree from Georgia Tech in 1992 and practiced as a structural engineer for 6 years.  An appreciation of the financial markets prompted him to attend The University of Chicago where he earned an MBA in 1999. While attending business school, Mr. Young transitioned from engineering to finance applying the knowledge he gained in option theory to trade equity options for Lakota Trading.  In this role, he traded as a floor market maker and member of the Chicago Board Options Exchange from 1998 to 2000. 

After obtaining his MBA, Mr. Young joined Mirant, a spinoff of Southern Company, in 2000.  He participated in the first year of Mirant’s “Energy Development Program” working in asset management and structuring.  In 2001, Mr. Young began trading natural gas, gaining a fundamental understanding in the dynamics of pipeline capacity and gas storage. He transitioned to power trading in early 2003 focusing on the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast markets for the following 8 years.  Mr. Young executed effective hedging and optimization strategies for Mirant’s generation assets and successfully traded a proprietary book. While at Mirant, Mr. Young managed two asset books (NY & New England) valued at over $300mm each. 

At the beginning of 2011, Mr. Young moved to Constellation Energy Group (now a division of Exelon Corp.) where he eventually became Co-head of East power trading and led a team of traders in the Northeast Region.  In addition to his management role, he worked with the asset team developing trading strategies to hedge the Northeast generation fleet and maintained a book for mid-marketing deal flow with a value in excess of $50mm. 

Beginning in 2014, Mr. Young was Principle at Piedmont Energy Management where he provided energy consulting services to various clients including MPG prior to joining MPG in his current position in 2015.