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Whatever your needs, we can assist you with our large global team of talented professionals with deep experience in valuation and risk analytics across the energy and commodities sectors, led by:
Dr Les Clewlow – Co-founder and CTO
PhD (Computer Science), University of Warwick, BSc (Physics with Astrophysics – First Class Honours), Birmingham University
Les Clewlow is CTO of Lacima. He is an Associate Research Fellow at the School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology, Sydney and the Financial Options Research Centre, University of Warwick. Les has extensive consulting experience at the senior executive level in energy valuation and risk management and system design and implementation, as well as a proven ability for problem solving for computationally advanced problems.
Les is the co-author of the books Energy Derivatives Pricing and Risk Management and Implementing Derivatives Models and co-editor of the book Exotic Options: The State of the Art, and has a regular series of articles in Energy Risk Magazine. Les was named in the Energy Risk’s Hall of Fame in 2005. In 2009 he was named in an elite international group of five by Energy Risk Magazine as a pioneering quantitative analyst who has made an outstanding contribution to energy trading and has shaped today’s global energy markets.
Lorna Strickland – CFO/COO
BEc, University of Sydney, CA ANZ, GAICD
Lorna is CFO/ COO of Lacima and leads customer, finance, legal, HR and marketing across all international operations. Lorna has over 25 years experience working with companies at varying stages of development – from those establishing operations, to those with a global presence. Prior to Lacima, as a Chartered Accountant, Lorna worked for Price Waterhouse, Coopers & Lybrand, PwC and IBM Business Consulting Services in the UK, Asia and Australia in various roles covering accounting, tax, audit and management consulting. In these roles Lorna has led teams of up to 200 people on time critical multi-faceted projects covering software development, business development, finance, legal, marketing, communications and change management.