Prior to this appointment, Mr Sudbey served on the USPowerGen management team as executive vice president, finance, administration, and commercial operations. Previously he was the president, New York and Southeast regions, within Reliant Energy Wholesale Group, a position he held since June 2003.

He was responsible for all of Reliant Energy’s activities in these regions. Mr Sudbey joined Reliant in February 2002, where he served as vice president of East Region origination for the Wholesale group. He came to Reliant as a result of the Reliant merger with Orion Power Holdings in 2002.

While at Orion he served as vice president of energy management and was responsible for trading operations, origination, and all commercial aspects of power sales and plant commercial operations. Prior to joining Orion Mr Sudbey worked for more than a decade, setting up generation trading platforms, incorporating power plant bidding and asset management functions into trading operations, and in various managerial positions, across a broad spectrum of business disciplines.

He holds a BS degree from the University of Massachusetts Lowell.