Key Staff

Assef Zobian
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Dr. Zobian is Founder and President of Cambridge Energy Solutions, LLC. He is an electrical engineer with over twelve years experience in power systems technology, economics, and planning.

Prior to CES-US, Dr. Zobian was Vice President of Tabors Caramanis & Associates, where he worked on more than thirty different generation and transmission asset and rights valuations with a total value of more than $20 billion. Dr. Zobian led the team to define the structure and tariff for the first for-profit Transmission System Operator (TransCo) in the US.

Before joining TCA, Dr. Zobian was a consultant at Putnam, Hayes & Bartlett, where he worked on developing models for least-cost economic dispatch for secure and economic operation of electric power systems and methods to compute the associated marginal costs of real power.

Dr. Zobian has published in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Transactions on Power Systems, the International Journal of Modeling & Simulation, and the IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. Dr. Zobian earned his MS and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also has BS and ME degrees from the American University of Beirut.

Asser Zobian
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Mr. Zobian is the Vice President of Cambridge Energy Solutions, LLC, a software company with a mission to develop software for the deregulated electric power industry. He is an electrical engineer with over five years of experience in the operation of the U.S. electric power markets, MS applications development, Web Technology (including J2EE), MS-SQL, relational database systems and software development including experience in object-oriented language.

Prior to joining CES, Mr. Zobian held the position of a research analyst at Tabors Caramanis & Associates.Through his work at TCA he gained an appreciable amount of experience in policy development, business planning,technical analysis, and project implementation in the energy and utility sectors in the United States and abroad. He also developed expertise in areas surrounding the restructuring of today's electric and gas markets as well as the implementation of and market response to electricity spot prices. He has worked on projects covering a wide range of applications, such as electric and gas transmission tariff structure,market assets valuation, contract valuation, and forward analysis of locational prices in both the gas and electric markets. He also analyzed a large electric power transmission service database for potential gaming by transmission owners

Kaan Egilmez
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Dr. Egilmez is a mechanical/electrical engineer with more than 15 years of experience in operations research, artificial intelligence, and computer aided decision support systems. Prior to joining Cambridge Energy Solutions, Dr. Egilmez was a Senior Associate at CRA International, Inc. where he was responsible for developing multiple modeling and analysis tools for electric power system simulation, asset valuation, and trading analysis for deregulated electricity markets. In particular, he developed the GE MAPS Analysis Workbench application used by the power system modeling group for post processing and visualization of GE MAPS simulation results. This application while initially targeted for GE MAPS was developed so as to support general purpose specification and evaluation of econometric models driven by multi-year simulation results presented to the system in the form of multivariate time series data.

At Tabors Caramanis & Associates, Dr. Egilmez was the software architect responsible for the CIMPLEST framework for agile manufacturing system design and analysis. He was also responsible for various software implementations of TCA proprietary electric market design and analysis algorithms. From 1992 to 1997, Dr. Egilmez was associated with the Production Control of Manufacturing Systems Laboratory at Boston University, where he developed Flow Nets as an object oriented extension to Continuous Petri Nets. Flow Nets have been shown to be effective in rapid modeling of scheduling problems associated with large-scale manufacturing systems with complex material flows and operational constraints. While at MIT, Dr. Egilmez developed the Modal State Logic formalism for the coordination of teams of intelligent software agents to control manufacturing systems such as robotic cells and transfer lines.

XIAOYI WU
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Dr. Wu is a Senior Engineer at Cambridge Energy Solutions, LLC, a software company to develop software for the deregulated electric power industry. He is an software engineer with several years of experience in the Discrete event system modeling and simulation and corresponding software development, queueing systems analysis, Stochastic modeling and optimization, Linear/non-linear optimization, Business process modeling and reengineering, C++ application development, MS applications development, MS-SQL/ORACLE, relational database systems and software development including experience in object-oriented language.

Before joining CES, Mr. Wu has worked for two software firms. In Beijing Atomic Co. Ltd., he participated in the design and development of ERP (enterprise resource planning) software for Jewelry firms. In Tsinghua Tongfang Co. Ltd, he participated the development of a medical information system.

Ayoub Zobian
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Mr. Zobian is an Electrical Engineer working as a research analyst, responsible for Power systems model update and testing. Prior to his position at Cambridge Energy Solutions, Ayoub held the position of Business Development Manager at Security Engineering SAL.

Sean Meany
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Mr. Meany is a Research Analyst at Cambridge Energy Solutions LLC, a software company with a mission to develop software for the deregulated electric power industry. An Economics graduate of Middlebury College in Vermont, he is responsible for synchronizing CES assumptions with publically available information and running sensitivity analysis to ensure that CES results are accurate.