Gelber & Associates is a nationally recognized energy consulting and advisory firm specializing in energy trading practices and protocols. Founder Art Gelber's industry leadership has come into greater national focus as a result of often-quoted forensic analyses in the energy markets since the year 2000.

For more than two decades Gelber has provided its clients with energy commodity risk management services, supply services, trading support, and general energy markets expertise. A summary of the firm's qualifications include:

• Years of combined experience in natural gas, power and allied energy markets for risk management, asset management, and planning management


• Active presence on the NYMEX natural gas exchange for over 12 years
  
  
• Frequently engaged by end users and producers for expert support in legal casework involving energy transactions, contracts and storage

• Energy Regulatory Advocacy for regulated utilities concerning rate cases and guidance to inform public utility commissions about changing trends and necessary changes to hedging strategies
  
  
• Active in United States, Canadian, and European energy markets

Gelber's clients include several of North America's largest regulated utilities, Fortune 500, and mid-cap industrial companies, natural gas producers, and energy service companies.

ARTHUR GELBER Founder & President Art Gelber Curriculum Vitae Mr. Gelber has been an active participant, on behalf of clients, in the natural gas futures market since the opening of the contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) in April 1990. A geophysicist by training, Gelber developed his commodity trading and risk management acumen.. read more

KENT BAYAZITOGLU
Director of Market Analytics

Kent Bayazitoglu heads up Gelber's energy market analytics group. Specializing in fundamental analysis of NYMEX traded commodities, Bayazitoglu brings expertise in quantitative methods and a hands-on understanding of the energy industry from his days at ExxonMobil as an refinery engineer. His weekly natural gas storage forecasting contributes to EIA storage surveys in major industry publications. Mr. Bayazitoglu holds a MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was educated as a mechanical engineer at Rice University.

[Pronounced "BUY-as-ih-toe-loo"]