The Experts Behind Your Energy Strategy
The team behind ECM's 100% client success rate across 20-plus years and what each of these experts brings to your energy strategy.
ECM combines executive leadership, market expertise, engineering insight, sustainability planning, and operational execution into one integrated team. Every engagement is supported by our senior specialists who work directly with you.
One multidisciplinary team of senior experts. 
One integrated strategy.
Why Large Organizations Trust ECM
- 20+ years operating inside ISO markets
- 100% client success rate
- Experience supporting some of the largest energy users in deregulated markets
- Direct access to senior specialists—not junior account teams
- Institutional-grade processes, reporting, and market intellegence
- Strategies designed to scale as client requirements evolve
Eugene Garcia
President
The strategic entry point for every ECM engagement: 20-plus years inside ISO markets, 100% client success rate.
When energy becomes a constraint on growth or a multimillion-dollar financial risk, organizations need more than a procurement strategy. They need a single integrated plan that connects cost, power capacity, risk, demand-side flexibility, and sustainability into outcomes a CFO and board can stand behind.
Eugene designs and executes that plan directly with executive teams. His engagements span ISO direct procurement, risk management, energy efficiency, demand response, and sustainability alignment, each component modeled against the others so strategy produces measurable financial outcomes rather than parallel workstreams.
Over 20-plus years, he has worked with Fortune 500 companies, data centers, healthcare systems, REITs, and financial institutions, helping them secure power, reduce costs, and navigate complex energy markets. ECM has maintained a 100% client success rate under his leadership.
What makes Eugene’s approach distinctive is the combination of engineering and finance. His background in power plant and HVAC design gives him direct insight into how systems operate under real-world conditions. His MBA in Finance grounds every strategic recommendation in the numbers that matter at the board level.
These four outcomes are what that combination consistently produces for executive clients:
- Procurement, hedging, and demand-side strategy integrated so each decision strengthens the others
- Large-scale power secured with confidence, leveraging deep ISO relationships that compress timelines
- Energy Efficiency projects grounded in financial modeling, with budget impact and risk exposure made explicit
- Sustainability aligned with financial performance, not traded against it
BS Mechanical Engineering, Boston University  · MBA Finance, Northeastern University  · 20-plus years ISO market experience
Marguerite "Margie" Miller
Vice President, Procurement Operations
Retired CPA (2025) and Chartered Global Management Accountant with over two decades of ISO market experience: the combination that makes ECM’s financial results auditable, not assumed.
A Retired CPA (2025) and Chartered Global Management Accountant with deep ISO experience is a rare combination in energy management. Most energy advisers bring market knowledge without financial discipline, or financial rigor without market depth. Margie brings both, and that combination is why ECM’s results hold up under CFO review, board scrutiny, and audit.
She leads ECM’s wholesale energy operations, overseeing ISO direct procurement, energy and ancillary services execution, transmission and capacity management, demand response, and financial reporting. As a former PJM Finance Committee member, she brings regulatory credibility alongside operational experience.
Over nearly two decades at ECM, she has supported Fortune 500 companies, financial institutions, healthcare systems, and large-scale data centers, helping them maintain cost control, reliability, and financial discipline across volatile market cycles.
The financial rigor Margie brings means these four things are true for every ECM client she serves:
- Every cost component is understood, validated, and traceable, with no black boxes in your energy financials
- Results are documented and auditable, with savings verified rather than assumed
- Budgets are built from market reality, not static forecasts or supplier projections
- Risk is actively managed with financial reporting and real-time market intelligence integrated throughout
MBA Accounting and Finance, University at Buffalo  · BA, Yale University  · Retired CPA (2025)  · CGMA  · Former PJM Finance Committee Member  · Nearly 20 years ISO experience
Matthew Morcheid
Senior Manager, Operations and Financial Services
The analytical foundation that makes complex portfolios transparent: 700-plus utility accounts and 500,000-plus MWh of annual consumption actively managed, a scale most organizations handle with internal teams three times the size.
When energy decisions require detailed analysis across large portfolios, cost structures, and risk exposure, executives need data translated into clear, actionable financial insight rather than more reports to interpret. Matthew provides that translation at a significant scale.
He supports procurement strategy, risk management, and financial analysis across large multi-site portfolios, including ISO bidding and scheduling, data reconciliation, and market analytics. His oversight spans more than 700 utility accounts across electric, gas, and related services, representing over 500,000 MWh of annual consumption. That scale means the processes he has built are tested against real complexity, not optimized for simple portfolios.
His strength is bridging analytics and finance, helping organizations understand not just what is happening in the market, but how it affects budgets, operations, and strategic decisions at the business unit and tenant level.
The clarity Matthew brings means these four things are consistently true for the portfolios he manages:
- Complex energy data is translated into financial insight your team can act on immediately
- Price sensitivity, risk exposure, and procurement outcomes are modeled clearly before decisions are made
- Energy spend is aligned to business units and tenants with documented cost allocation
- Reporting answers the "why" behind every number before anyone has to ask
BS Business Administration, University of Pittsburgh  · Data Analytics Certification, Seton Hill University
Jason Cox
Senior Manager, Operations and Technical Services
The execution specialist who keeps ISO participation running without gaps: 250,000-plus MWh of electricity and 1.6 million DTHs of natural gas managed annually across NYISO and PJM.
Moving into wholesale energy markets requires more than strategy. Execution gaps in scheduling, settlements, or capacity obligations create financial and operational risk that surfaces quickly and compounds if not caught early. Jason prevents that from happening.
He works directly with clients across NYISO and PJM, supporting ISO direct participation through energy scheduling, credit and payment management, capacity obligations, and procurement execution. His portfolio spans over 250,000 MWh of electricity and 1.6 million DTHs of natural gas annually across complex, multi-site operations.
What differentiates Jason is operational fluency inside wholesale markets. He understands how scheduling, settlements, credit, and capacity intersect in real time, which allows him to identify issues early, engage directly with ISOs, and resolve challenges before they escalate into financial events.
The operational depth Jason brings means these four things hold for every client he supports:
- ISO participation runs smoothly day-to-day without operational breakdowns or settlement surprises
- Billing, scheduling, and market discrepancies are resolved before they escalate
- Complex ISO rules are translated into clear, actionable operational outcomes
- Credit, capacity, and settlement exposure is proactively managed throughout
BA Business, State University of New York at Buffalo  · NYISO and PJM operational expertise
Paul Ramoino
Engineering and Infrastructure Development
The mechanical and electrical infrastructure specialist who connects engineering decisions to financial outcomes: 25-plus years across central plant systems, thermal storage, and building controls.
When infrastructure decisions affect cost, reliability, and long-term growth, the engineering strategy needs to produce financial outcomes and technical performance simultaneously. Paul delivers both, across the full infrastructure lifecycle from design through ongoing optimization.
He designs and delivers integrated energy infrastructure strategies across building controls, central plant systems, and advanced thermal energy solutions (including ice storage and district cooling). His work helps organizations actively manage when and how energy is used, reducing peak demand, improving system economics, and enhancing operational flexibility under real-world conditions.
Paul works across the full infrastructure lifecycle, from design and development through construction, integration, and ongoing optimization, ensuring systems deliver sustained value. His expertise in thermal energy systems allows organizations to unlock demand flexibility that traditional infrastructure approaches leave uncaptured.
The engineering and financial integration Paul delivers means these four outcomes are consistently achievable:
- Lower operating costs through smarter system design, with controls, load profiles, and energy usage optimized together
- Resiliency and reliability built for real operating conditions, not design specifications alone
- Demand flexibility unlocked through thermal storage and load shifting to reduce peak exposure
- Infrastructure designed to support growth, electrification, and evolving grid constraints from the start
BS Mechanical Engineering, North Carolina State University  · 25-plus years infrastructure experience across central plant, thermal storage, and building controls
Sean Rustowicz
Sustainability and Energy Market Specialist
The sustainability strategist who makes carbon goals financially defensible: active across RPS policy, REC
markets, and decarbonization strategy in NYISO and PJM, supporting real estate owners, financial
institutions, and data centers.
As sustainability commitments grow more complex and more visible to investors, lenders, and regulators, organizations need strategies that deliver documented results without unnecessary cost or risk. Sean builds those strategies, specifically for organizations where sustainability must hold up under the same financial scrutiny as every other capital decision.
He supports clients across renewable procurement, environmental compliance, and sustainability strategy, including REC procurement, RPS compliance, emissions tracking, and renewable investment evaluation. His market focus is NYISO and PJM, serving real estate owners, financial institutions, and data centers integrating sustainability into a broader energy strategy. He maintains active research in RPS policy and REC market dynamics, ensuring clients stay ahead of regulatory and market shifts rather than reacting to them.
Sean’s differentiator is connecting environmental goals with financial outcomes. A sustainability strategy that cannot demonstrate financial return does not survive budget cycles. Sean builds strategies that satisfy both requirements simultaneously.
The market fluency and financial discipline Sean brings means these four outcomes are consistently achievable:
- Sustainability goals achieved cost-effectively, with environmental strategy aligned to market opportunity
- Regulatory compliance navigated with confidence, including RPS requirements, LL97 and BERDO
- Renewable investments structured for financial return, from RECs to onsite generation and market-based solutions
- Carbon impact quantified clearly, with emissions and financial outcomes reported together
BS Environmental Science  · Active research in RPS policy, REC markets, and decarbonization strategy across NYISO and PJM
Questions About the ECM Customer Facing Team
Does ECM assign a dedicated team to each client engagement, or do clients work with different people depending on the service?
ECM clients work directly with the same team throughout the engagement, not a rotating cast of contacts depending on which service is active. Eugene leads every strategic relationship. Margie, Matthew, Jason, Paul, and Sean each operate within their specific domain of expertise, and all six coordinate across procurement, operations, financial reporting, infrastructure, and sustainability so the strategy functions as a single integrated system rather than a collection of separate services.
What credentials and experience does the ECM team bring that a typical energy broker or retail adviser does not?
The ECM team brings a combination of capabilities that retail-layer advisory structures cannot replicate: 20-plus years of direct ISO market participation across NYISO, PJM, and ISO-NE; a CPA and CGMA with former PJM Finance Committee membership overseeing financial execution; engineering expertise spanning power plant design, central plant systems, and thermal storage; and active sustainability research across RPS policy and REC markets. Most energy brokers optimize a single lever. ECM’s team is built to optimize the system, which is where the compounding financial return lives.
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