Black & Veatch Management Consulting, LLC, announced yesterday that Deepa Poduval has been named Vice President and Chris Klausner and M. Joe Zhou have each been named Associate Vice President in the management consulting business. They will serve in roles delivering financial, operations and technology consulting services across the power, water, oil & gas and communications sectors. As Vice President, Poduval will lead the company’s Strategic Advisory practice.
Klausner, Associate Vice President, leads the Transactions Advisory practice and is responsible for execution and oversight of independent engineering assessments for project lenders, private equity investors, developers, energy companies, and other institutional investors pursuing infrastructure mergers and acquisitions and investments. He also provides market insights for Black & Veatch’s Energy Market Perspective (EMP) 25-year market price forecast for North American energy markets.
As Associate Vice President, Zhou leads the Infrastructure Modernization and Connected Customer practices, which help drive the modernization of energy infrastructure through advanced asset management tools and strategies, operational technology management expertise, smart grid technologies and asset investment planning for utilities and large C&I clients.
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