Bridged To Precision

Connective Reporting Solutions is the commodity market's premiere Data Lifecycle Intelligence provider.

Transforming The CTRM Market

The first Data Lifecycle Intelligence solution

The value of our data reporting solution is its ability to connect and interpret information. This single source of truth will allow a company to easily monitor its open exposures and recognize the drivers influencing its current and future projected earnings.

Connective’s founders have delivered information technology solutions for some of the largest companies in the energy industry. Through these experiences, along with cultivating business relationships in the energy community, we quickly realized that no comprehensive data reporting solution existed in the commodity markets. We believe our product fills this untapped space, and will benefit organizations, agnostic of industry, that deal with managing multiple systems or processes, operational tracking and accounting reconciliations test.

Utilizing our expertise in the commodity trading and risk management market, Connective Reporting solutions is developing a one-of-a-kind data lifecycle intelligence platform. Designed to bridge disparate data and provide enhanced visibility and insights, our solution will give companies a deeper understanding of the organizational information they rely upon when making important business decisions.

Our cloud-based, scalable solution will be priced competitively when compared to custom-build alternatives currently available in the market. The product(s) will provide configuration flexibility, allowing a client to customize the software to fit their needs while maintaining the core functionality of our product. Our ability to manage and be agnostic to sources creates a unique advantage in being able to deliver timely information back to the business.

Transforming The CTRM Market

The first Data Lifecycle Intelligence solution

The value of our data reporting solution is its ability to connect and interpret information. This single source of truth will allow a company to easily monitor its open exposures and recognize the drivers influencing its current and future projected earnings.

Connective’s founders have delivered information technology solutions for some of the largest companies in the energy industry. Through these experiences, along with cultivating business relationships in the energy community, we quickly realized that no comprehensive data reporting solution existed in the commodity markets. We believe our product fills this untapped space, and will benefit organizations, agnostic of industry, that deal with managing multiple systems or processes, operational tracking and accounting reconciliations.

Utilizing our expertise in the commodity trading and risk management market, Connective Reporting solutions is developing a one-of-a-kind data lifecycle intelligence platform. Designed to bridge disparate data and provide enhanced visibility and insights, our solution will give companies a deeper understanding of the organizational information they rely upon when making important business decisions.

Our cloud-based, scalable solution will be priced competitively when compared to custom-build alternatives currently available in the market. The product(s) will provide configuration flexibility, allowing a client to customize the software to fit their needs while maintaining the core functionality of our product. Our ability to manage and be agnostic to sources creates a unique advantage in being able to deliver timely information back to the business.

Who we are

Over 80 years of combined experience in the energy and commodity trading industries

Executive Director

Brett Springer

Brett Springer is Connective’s executive director, overseeing the company’s strategic vision and corporate growth while leading the company’s charge as a first mover in data lifecycle intelligence.

Brett’s experience spans more than 26 years in the commodity industry ranging from commercial trading, scheduling, gathering and processing to risk, financial and product control leadership roles at wholesale and retail energy companies. For the last several years, Brett has led organizations in the development and installation of energy trading and risk management (ETRM) systems and reporting solutions. Prior to founding Connective, Brett’s career includes senior management positions with Direct Energy, Spark Energy, Macquarie Energy, JPMorgan/Bear Energy and Reliant Energy.

Born and raised in Washington State, Brett graduated from New Mexico State University with degrees in finance and accounting. Brett is married and has two boys in college at Kansas State University. He continues to support his home state through his passion rooting for the Gonzaga Bulldogs, the Seattle Mariners and the Seattle Seahawks. He enjoys traveling with his wife and working on his hobby farm in Waller, Texas.

Managing Director

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.

Technical Director, Development

Chris Florescu

Chris Florescu is Connective’s technical director of solutions. In this role he is responsible for the technical architecture and product development of the company’s software-as-a-service solution, focusing on data modeling and processing for the company’s data lifecycle intelligence solutions.

With more than 25 years of targeted experience in systems development in the energy and financial sectors, Chris is an industry leader in the technical development of trading and financial systems using Openlink Endur, responsible for technical development and creation of bespoke systems for trading, risk management, operations and reporting. Chris’ technical leadership and direction have guided the efforts of custom solutions for numerous energy companies, three of which are still in active use today. His considerable technical development credentials were honed during roles at Direct Energy, Spark Energy, JPMorgan/Bear Energy and Schlumberger.

A native of Romania, Chris is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Bucharest where he earned a master of science degree in geophysics engineering. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Association for Computing Machinery. Chris lives with his wife and two daughters, who are both at the University of Houston, one finishing a master in accountancy and the other working on a PhD thesis.

Technical Director, Infrastructure

Andrew Creller

Andrew Creller is Connective’s technical director of infrastructure, with responsibility for the company’s product infrastructure and deployment initiatives. Andrew supports the processing backbone of the SaaS product, developing and overseeing technical relationships and providing packaged solutions for deployment.

Andrew has focused experience in developing, supporting, deploying and tailoring technical solutions during stints with large, multinational industry leaders and retail energy providers. His technical leadership encompasses multiple Openlink Endur implementations, building proprietary risk disaggregation engines, developing large-scale custom reporting solutions that leverage emerging business intelligence technologies, and supporting end user reporting for audit, compliance and regulatory, position management, risk management and accounting reconciliation. Before forming Connective, his experience included positions with Direct Energy, Spark Energy and Shell Trading (US) Co.

A graduate of Texas A&M University with a degree in management information systems, Andrew remains heavily invested in the Fighting Texas Aggies, as well as the Houston Astros. He lives in Houston with his wife and two young sons.

Deeper insights to financial performance across commercial, mid-office and back office functions.
Ability to generate accurate EOD position and P&L flash reports.
FP&A and margin analytics features include: growth wedge; performance drivers; performance measurement at the client-defined level of aggregation; and waterfall.
Intuitive, accurate and timely FX information.

Product Features Include

  • Expanded P&L explanations and position tracking across user defined time periods
  • Dispatch modeling, end-of-day flash and daily curve change analysis
  • Executive/Desk consolidated reporting and dashboards
  • Cash month physical balancing, P&L analytics and month end schedules for derivative and commodity accounting
  • Estimate to actuals tracking
  • Margin, cash and earnings as compared to plan
Reduce dependence on key personnel – limiting exposure and improving succession planning.
Break down data silos to deliver efficient, accurate and actionable daily exception reporting.
Stress testing with changes in market conditions, feedstock prices and consumption scenarios.
Adjustment and provision integration, tracking and control.

Product Features Include

  • Stress, scenario and risk analytics
  • Expanded FX and option analytics
  • Seamlessly provides outside market intelligence as validation of trader marks
  • Counterparty exposure, PFE, collateral usage and broker statement reconciliation
  • Inventory, amortization and RECs management
  • Exception reporting and audit preparedness

Our expertise centers around delivering detailed results in a digestible form across an organization, in which data can be readily accessed, explained and packaged for delivery with minimal resource utilization.

We have in-depth experience with flawed systems, implementations or models that are prevalent in the energy and commodity space and have recognized the opportunity and lack of competition in the resolution of these critical organizational shortfalls.

Access to proven industry intelligence and commodity expertise. Ability to support clients with long-term managed services agreements ensures application of best practices from industry experts.
Access to proven industry intelligence and commodity expertise.
Ability to focus resources in decision-making, not information gathering. An estimated 80% of your staff’s time is spent on data preparation. Our system enables you to focus your resources on making better decisions.
A system that improves continuity across commercial, mid-office and back-office functions.
Repeatable workflow for data gathering, enrichment, blending, analysis and decision making.

Enhanced Visibility

Deeper insights to financial performance across commercial, mid-office and back office functions.
Ability to generate accurate EOD position and P&L flash reports.
FP&A and margin analytics features include: growth wedge; performance drivers; performance measurement at the client-defined level of aggregation; and waterfall.
Intuitive, accurate and timely FX information.

Product Features Include

  • Expanded P&L explanations and position tracking across user defined time periods
  • Dispatch modeling, end-of-day flash and daily curve change analysis
  • Executive/Desk consolidated reporting and dashboards
  • Cash month physical balancing, P&L analytics and month end schedules for derivative and commodity accounting
  • Estimate to actuals tracking
  • Margin, cash and earnings as compared to plan

Reduced Risk & Exposure

Reduce dependence on key personnel – limiting exposure and improving succession planning.
Break down data silos to deliver efficient, accurate and actionable daily exception reporting.
Stress testing with changes in market conditions, feedstock prices and consumption scenarios.
Adjustment and provision integration, tracking and control.

Product Features Include

  • Stress, scenario and risk analytics
  • Expanded FX and option analytics
  • Seamlessly provides outside market intelligence as validation of trader marks
  • Counterparty exposure, PFE, collateral usage and broker statement reconciliation
  • Inventory, amortization and RECs management
  • Exception reporting and audit preparedness

Commodity/Systems Expertise

Our expertise centers around delivering detailed results in a digestible form across an organization, in which data can be readily accessed, explained and packaged for delivery with minimal resource utilization.

We have in-depth experience with flawed systems, implementations or models that are prevalent in the energy and commodity space and have recognized the opportunity and lack of competition in the resolution of these critical organizational shortfalls.

Access to proven industry intelligence and commodity expertise. Ability to support clients with long-term managed services agreements ensures application of best practices from industry experts.
Access to proven industry intelligence and commodity expertise.

Cost Savings/Efficiency

Ability to focus resources in decision-making, not information gathering. An estimated 80% of your staff’s time is spent on data preparation. Our system enables you to focus your resources on making better decisions.
A system that improves continuity across commercial, mid-office and back-office functions.
Repeatable workflow for data gathering, enrichment, blending, analysis and decision making.

Data Lifecycle Intelligence

A “C” change for reporting in the commodity markets

Collaborate

Build a reporting platform customizable by client with commodity experts

Capture

Standardize and bridge data from disparate systems

Create

Quickly generate meaningful reports across departments

Compress

Shorten the cycle time for information

Continuity

Reduce succession planning challenges and “key dependency” risks

Control

Dictate what data you see and what adjustments are present

  • "At a prior place of employment, insufficient and disparate data from our trading system led to significant complexities in reporting risk and exposure for the company. Andrew and Brian were instrumental in designing, building, implementing and supporting an automated solution for the risk disaggregation of our wholesale and retail transactions that enabled the company to comfortably manage its risk as it expanded its reach across markets and customers."

    Layne Loessin

    President & CEO, Entrust Energy

  • "I previously worked with Andrew and Brian at a retail energy company, on the team that built from scratch a reporting solution for our natural gas and power businesses, which normalized data, disaggregated risk exposures and warehoused the results for easy access for the business.  Andrew’s technical abilities and Brian’s market understanding were key to establishing this single source of truth which enabled the business to build models, perform advanced analytics and manage its aggressively growing retail and wholesale sectors."

    Long Duong

    Director, Wholesale Supply, Entrust Energy

  • ”Brian, Andrew, Chris and Brett were originally tasked to provide a reporting solution for the retail side of our business. This solution was delivered thoughtfully and quickly. The value was quickly realized and the rest of the organization moved its reporting to this platform. The solution was validated once again by this team being able to quickly fold in the data and results from a large company acquisition which brought data from both a custom built and an industry leading ETRM to enable holistic company reporting.“

    Darron Giron

    Senior Director - Product Control, Direct Energy

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