Brian Slater

As Connective’s managing director, Brian Slater leads the company’s day-to-day operations, business and financial administration, product testing and data enrichment, marketing, and investor relations.

Prior to founding Connective, Brian’s more than 16 years of experience in energy trading and risk management include design, testing, deployment and support of both industry-leading trading systems and proprietary builds. He brings valuable end-user experience to the table, specifically in mid-office services, having targeted expertise in market risk, retail energy and product control applications. Most recently Brian led a mid-office infrastructure team that built a custom solution to collect, standardize and enrich data across four ETRM systems. Brian has served in senior infrastructure and risk management positions at Direct Energy, Spark Energy and Allegro Development.

Brian graduated from Southern Methodist University with a bachelor of science degree in management science. In his free time, he enjoys home improvement projects and family time with his wife and daughter.