Dr. Nesbitt began his career at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) as an analyst in the Management Systems Department. (He was employee number 70 at the legendary PARC.) Dr. Nesbitt moved to Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in 1974, where he worked on the seminal energy models the SRI-Gulf Model and the SRI World Energy Model and became the Manager of the Decision Analysis--Energy group. In 1977, Dr. Nesbitt cofounded the consulting and software development company Decision Focus Incorporated (DFI), where he remained as a principal until 1995. In 1995, Dr. Nesbitt founded Altos Management Partners to continue assisting senior management in energy, high technology, telecommunications, and other industries. At the same time, Dr. Nesbitt founded MarketPoint to develop world class forward market and decision support technologies serving the entire spectrum of industry. Dr. Nesbitt is well known in the energy industry for his market analysis products including the North American Regional Gas (NARG) model, the World Gas Trade model, the World Oil Model, the Western European Gas Model, and the North American Regional Electricity Model. The market modeling methods developed by Dr. Nesbitt have been used for most of the North American energy companies in the oil, gas, and electricity business as well as a number of the key world players in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, South America, Australia, and Canada.
Dr. Nesbitt’s service companies have spanned a broad range of industries and activities outside as well as within the energy industry. Outside the energy industry, Dr. Nesbitt’s service companies have done seminal work in high technology (product pricing, new product introduction), airlines (fleet allocation, scheduling, and seat pricing for United, Continental, SAS, British Air, KLM), rental car companies (Hertz), telecommunications (product line pricing for Pacific Bell, GTE, Bell Atlantic, NYNEX), transportation including trucks, ocean, and highway; infrastructure (various highway departments), resource companies (Anaconda-Arco, Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan), and environmental remediation. Inside the energy industry, Dr. Nesbitt has worked on every major pipeline that has entered since 1980, valued the upstream business in every producing basin in North America, supported trading among many of the regions and hubs in North America, computed the value of Duke for the Duke-PanEnergy merger, developed power plants in various locations, valued upstream and pipeline assets in Asia, Australia, the Middle East, Europe, and South America, calculated forward prices and price differentials in and between every North American electric generation region, supported the California generation plant auction, won the Merchant Plant Deal of the Year in 1999 from the New York investment banks, and valued each and every power plant in North America to support acquisitions and divestitures, and won the famous Duke New Smyrna Beach case before the Florida PSC and the PGT Roll In case before the FERC.
Dr. Nesbitt holds a B.S. degree in Engineering Systems from the University of Nevada—Reno, an M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, and an M.S. and a Ph. D. degree in Engineering-Economic Systems (Ph. D. dissertation received with honors) from Stanford University.
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