Isabel Scott-Skinner
Partner, expert in Commodities and Energy Trading
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"I love solving problems and I love creating collaborative teams where everyone pulls together to get the job done. A big part of my job is working out how to get individuals and teams to work successfully together. The reward and sense of achievement once we’ve cracked it together is amazing."
At a glance:
Joined Baringa in
2008
Works across
Commodities and Energy Trading
Favourite book
I love a good Agatha Christie, although some of them have dated unfortunately. I love immersing myself in the stories and the characters – the thought of Poirot with his fancy moustache and patent leather shoes always makes me smile.
In detail:
Isabel leads our trading architecture centre of excellence, helping clients in the energy and commodities sectors to work through their business design and thorny IT issues. She is at her happiest when solving complex problems, ideally whilst sketching out designs on a whiteboard with her clients to deliver industry leading trading IT design.
Isabel has always worked in the energy sector, having first worked for an energy retailer and then Elexon, the UK power market participant, before joining Baringa.
She loves working in the energy and commodities trading space because it’s always changing, there are always new challenges to overcome, new technology and solutions to explore, and new markets and products to understand.
Outside of work, Isabel’s home life is just as busy. Together with her husband Doug they spend their time running around after their 3 young children, seeing family and friends and trying, usually unsuccessfully to have the odd quiet weekend at home.
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