Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics to Accelerate the Energy Transition

Jack has more than 45 years of consulting and management experience serving global electric and gas utility markets. His special focus is on deregulation, competitive positioning, and the management of change. He also has extensive expertise in strategic planning, organizational effectiveness and asset, and performance management. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and is well known for his perspectives on industry strategic directions.

Prior to founding ISL Analytics, Jack was a senior member of Booz Allen & Hamilton's utility practice.

He also served for 11 years in various leadership capacities at two major U.S. east coast utilities. Jack holds a professional engineer's license and an M.B.A. in finance from New York University.

Larisa is the COO and Co-Founder of ISL Analytics and has been with the company for over 24 years. Previously, she served as the Vice President of UMS Group’s Digital Solutions Practice, focusing on the development of new software, tools and data services and operated as Managing Director of the company’s Global Business Intelligence Center (GBIC) office located in the Philippines, leading a team of thirty employees.

Over the years, she has focused much of her time on product development and advanced analytics, project and product management, asset, risk and performance management, client benchmarking & global best practice programs, process improvement, and quality assurance projects. She has led numerous client engagements throughout the US and Canada and has spent a substantial amount of time working abroad with global utility clients in Europe, Asia and Australia.

Larisa holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics, with a concentration in Multinational Management, from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, as well as minors in French and Spanish.

Jenna is Chief Product Officer with ISL Analytics, following 20 years with utility consulting firm UMS Group, where she primarily focused on the Digital Solutions business.  A certified Product Manager, Jenna’s expertise is in software requirements design and software development, portfolio optimization, quality assurance, client implementation and training, project management, and change management. She has worked with clients around the world on performance improvement, asset management, and application implementation engagements.  Jenna holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Operations Research & Industrial Engineering from Cornell University.

Abegail Iriberri is the Senior Manager for Digital Solutions at ISL Analytics. In her current role, she is greatly involved in the product development and project management aspects of the various software solutions offered by the company - Spend Optimization Suite (SOS), DRx, and TRx. On the product development-side, she assists the Product team in the creation of functional design documents, is responsible for the creation of several test plans and the carrying out of testing activities and is the point person in the development of user guidance materials. On the project management-side, she oversees and coordinates the day-to-day operations of the Infrastructure, Business Intelligence (BI), and .NET Development teams.

Prior to taking on a leadership role within the company, Abegail has strongly contributed to the successful runs of the International Transmission Asset Management Study (ITAMS) and the International Distribution Benchmark Consortium (IDBC), having supported the programs through several cycles between 2013 and 2020. She has collaborated closely with the program managers located in the Europe office to improve the study designs resulting to an improved workflow for each program. Aside from process improvements, she was also responsible for the data analysis, data requirement clarification, and preparation of the final reports.

Abegail has also been involved in several distribution, transmission, and customer service benchmarking projects for major utilities within the North American and Australian regions, assisting in the identification of performance improvement opportunities and recommending actions to close performance gaps. She has also been a member of the Bid Support Team to a number of due diligence projects participated in by the Europe office. She was responsible for the collection, validation, analysis, and presentation of benchmarked metrics to support the efforts of the technical group to provide actionable insights for the clients.

Abegail holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and a Master’s degree in Development Economics, both from the University of the Philippines. Prior to joining ISL Analytics, she worked for the Advisory Services group of the Manila Operational Hub of Thomson Reuters as a Senior Associate. Earlier than this, she served as a Marketing Assistant for the Small and Medium Enterprise Department of BPI Family Savings Bank, the consumer banking arm of one of the largest banks in the Philippines, the Bank of Philippine Islands (BPI).

Rommel Dulatas is a seasoned Software Development Manager with over a decade of experience in designing, developing and implementing application solutions using a range of technologies and programming languages. His extensive experience allows him to implement industry proven standards and emerging technologies. He is highly creative, reliable, and always willing to go the extra mile to get the job done. Well versed with best practices, he always considers the broader impact of changes and new features on the system and user experience as a whole.

As Software Development Manager at ISL Analytics, Rommel leads the development and maintenance of the Spend Optimization Suite (SOS), an application that optimizes spending for utility and asset-intensive clients. He is also a lead developer for other applications, such as Distribution Reliability eXcellence (DRx) EV Prophet and Weather Guard, Operational eXcellence (OPx), and others. In addition, he plays a key role in supporting clients with installation and maintenance activities.

Prior joining ISL Analytics in 2016, Rommel worked as a senior software developer in a leading Contact Center Solution company. He created internal applications that integrated with different client systems, such as airlines, energy distribution, cruise lines, and video relay telecommunications. He also worked with the business analytics team to automate reports using Microsoft Analysis Services, which improved the efficiency and accuracy of data analysis. He engaged with different lines of businesses and delivered high-quality solutions that met their needs.

He graduated from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines with Bachelor of Science in Information Technology.

Rafael Balatbat joined ISL Analytics in 2014 and is currently the Technical Infrastructure Manager. With years of experience overseeing IT infrastructure and engineering, he has a proven track record in installing, configuring, and maintaining complex network systems. He is adept at developing IT strategies that align with organizational goals and works with cross-functional teams to achieve operational excellence.

Rafael manages and administers physical and test servers, revises and updates server consoles, executes server migration procedures, creates and allocates user logins in server directories, and manages several programs' licenses. He is also responsible for SSL, domain name access, external monitoring tools, backup data storage, server security, Office 365, operating systems, firewalls, internet, and other application tools requirements. He oversees troubleshooting when issues occur, devising solutions to resolve them. He has also worked on data handling, reports and dashboard creation, and other office administrative and utility tasks.

Before joining ISL Analytics, he worked for Business Process Outsourcing and Contact Center companies as a Data Reporting Analyst, specializing in data analysis and template creation and automation using different programs. Rafael holds a master's degree in information systems from the University of the Philippines and a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from New Era University.