Forrest Small is a Director in the Energy Practice of Navigant Consulting. He helps clients make strategic decisions related to advanced electric power technology and how it influences their businesses. He is focused on the convergence of the Smart Grid and renewable energy resources, and how these complementary platforms can be leveraged to meet energy and business challenges. Forrest's seventeen year career began in transmission planning and operations at Central Maine Power Company where he was responsible for developing strategic system development plans, including the interconnection of merchant generation. For the past nine years he has been a management consultant assisting clients with a range of complex business challenges including technology strategy, utilities privatization, business process management, and performance improvement.