Christine Vangelatos

Christine Vangelatos is ZGlobal’s Managing Director of Engineering & Market Analytics. Christine has over twenty-eight years of experience in the day-to-day operations of the market and its settlements. She has extensive experience with implementing large market systems, providing market settlements design, business analysis, financial impact assessments, overseeing infrastructure development, and has a thorough knowledge of the CAISO Tariff. She is an expert in the CAISO Nodal Market, asset valuation, and economic analysis for a variety of generating and transmission assets. For several years Christine successfully managed CAISO settlements, totaling several hundred million dollars annually. Christine brings valuable skills in project and program management to ZGlobal, while exhibiting leadership in process reengineering and implementation, technology, and organizational change. Her years of experience provide clients with solid energy market information that is essential when making investment decisions.

At ZGlobal, she leads a highly skilled team of engineers and analysts that develop and use various deterministic and stochastic models to perform energy market and operations analyses in support of ZGlobal’s energy scheduling and trading operations, portfolio optimization, risk management, and asset valuation assessments for clients. Their expertise includes developing and maintaining ZGlobal’s production cost models to forecast LMPs and dispatch under varying scenarios for the CAISO energy markets. Christine also manages ZGlobal’s settlement processes. ZGlobal’s settlement staff has over 10 years of experience managing energy market settlement processes, checkouts and reporting. Also, Christine provides leadership and coordinates many of ZGlobal’s information technology implementation efforts having many years of experience leading market and settlement application implementation projects at CAISO.

Christine holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo as well as a Master of Science in Computer Information Systems from the University of Phoenix, Sacramento.