Julie McLaughlin

Managing Director
20+ years’ experience in power and utilities across multiple power technologies globally, including solar, wind, energy storage, gas, and others
Focuses on driving results in diverse power and utilities businesses in the areas of strategy, investment, expansion and acquisition, and performance improvement 
San Francisco
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Julie McLaughlin is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Energy in San Francisco. With more than 20 years of experience, she specializes in power and utilities and has worked across 16 countries in North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia with utilities, private equity, project developers, and regulators.

Ms. McLaughlin’s representative engagements include strategy formation for an independent power producer (IPP); cost optimization projects leveraging A&M’s proprietary PeerView tool; business transformations; operational due diligence; planning and integration for acquisitions; and commercial market studies for renewables and other technologies.

Prior to joining A&M, Ms. McLaughlin held a variety of roles in industry with Cogentrix, Brookfield Renewable, E.ON Climate & Renewables, Dynamic Energy, EcoSecurities, and The Vertex Companies.

Ms. McLaughlin earned a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies from Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, an MPA in environmental science and policy from Columbia University, and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She is a North America Advisor to the Hawthorn Club (an executive network for women in energy) and a board member of Verra (the voluntary carbon registry).

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