Navigant Consulting, Inc. announced four senior-level industry professionals have joined the company’s growing global Energy segment. Directors Margot Everett, Shawn Fountain, Dieter Keller-Giessbach, and Peter Kolmeijer serve clients that are transforming their businesses by leveraging new business and regulatory models, digital strategies, emerging technologies, and new approaches to data analytics. Margot Everett, Director, San Francisco-As an industry leader in developing modern policy, regulatory, and pricing solutions for utilities, Everett helps clients transform their regulatory strategy and pricing structures to improve transparency, promote new technologies, and maintain cost-based economic principles. She has nearly 35 years of experience in energy policy, market issues, analytics, and strategy, with expertise in electric and gas regulation and rate design, cost allocation, load forecasting and research, and market and enterprise risk management. Shawn Fountain, Director, Boulder, Colo.- Helping utilities and other energy companies maximize value through advanced data visualization and analytics, Fountain is an experienced industry professional and solution architect with over 25 years of energy consulting experience. His previous engagements span a wide range of strategy, design, and implementation projects of large-scale technology and data analytics programs, with specific projects ranging from energy price forecasting, generation dispatch modeling, market settlement, pricing and billing for competitive retailers, and meter data management. Dieter Keller-Giessbach, Director, Cologne, Germany-Keller-Giessbach is advancing the Energy segment’s key client relationships in Germany and with other electric and natural gas distribution companies across Europe. With more than 25 years of professional experience in the European utility industry, he has led clients through digital and business transformations, developed and executed market entry strategies, and provided large-scale project management and governance support. Peter Kolmeijer, Director, Utrecht, Netherlands- Focused on the Energy segment’s key account relationships in the Netherlands and with distribution and transmission system operators across Europe, Kolmeijer has nearly 30 years of experience in the utility industry. Throughout his career, he has worked in lockstep with utilities and energy companies to transform business operations, identify solutions, and develop new technical and commercial offerings.