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Brad Kitchens

President and CEO

Brad Kitchens is president and CEO of ScottMadden, Inc. With more than 30 years of business and consulting experience, he has worked extensively in the energy sector on strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, operations improvement, reorganizations, and governance. Brad routinely works with energy organizations’ executive teams and boards of directors. He is a frequent speaker to energy leadership and at energy conferences. Prior to ScottMadden, Brad consulted with Deloitte & Touche specializing in its capital markets practice. He also spent several years in the oil and gas industry. He received a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, where he graduated with top honors and was recognized as a Fuqua Scholar.

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Areas of Specialty

Mergers and Acquisitions Consulting

Organization Design Consulting

Strategic and Business Planning

Operational Excellence/Best Practices

Project Management

Governance

Recent Assignments

  • Over the past 10 years, Brad has led and supported more than 50 corporate strategic planning exercises. Most of these required active engagement with and facilitation of senior executive teams and boards of directors
  • Worked with several utility boards of directors on CEO succession planning activities
  • Assisted numerous utilities with corporate-wide business planning efforts after assisting with strategic plans
  • Worked closely with an IOU’s executive leadership and board of directors on a corporate reorganization
  • Led the review and recommendation of a 10-year strategic capital program for a major IOU
  • Led an outsourcing engagement that examined the outsourcing of all T&D support services for a top U.S. utility
  • Provided post-merger integration planning and value preservation assistance for an energy industry acquisition

Viewpoints

  • In 2018, Brad presented industry presentations to nearly 20 different energy company boards of directors, leadership teams, and industry conferences
  • In 2017, Brad presented industry presentations to more than a dozen different energy company boards of directors, leadership teams, and industry conferences
  • In 2016, Brad presented topical industry presentations to more than 10 different energy company boards of directors and industry conferences
  • In 2015, Brad presented topical industry presentations to eight different boards of directors and six different industry conferences
  • “Changes and Challenges in the U.S. Utility Industry.” AEIC’s Annual Meeting, Keynote Address. October 2014
  • “Industry Trends and Implications.” MISO Annual Meeting. June 2014
  • “Future of the Industry.” Presentation at the MISO Annual Meeting. June 2013
  • “The Energy Industry – Managing in an Uncertain World.” AEGIS Annual Meeting, Industry Keynote Address. September 2012
  • “The Big Picture – Opportunities, Issues, and Challenges for the Utility Industry.” EEI Annual Finance Meeting, Keynote Address. May 2012

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