{"id":30190,"date":"2020-12-01T10:22:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T15:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/?page_id=30190"},"modified":"2021-06-30T18:16:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T22:16:19","slug":"cise-roundtable-justin-foster","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/programs\/student-programs\/industry-roundtables\/industry-roundtables-2\/cise-roundtable-justin-foster\/","title":{"rendered":"CISE Roundtable: Justin Foster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/systems\/files\/2016\/02\/web_1JFoster.jpg\" alt=\"web_1JFoster\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19021\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/files\/2016\/02\/web_1JFoster.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/files\/2016\/02\/web_1JFoster-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/files\/2016\/02\/web_1JFoster-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Justin M. Foster, senior energy trader and principle at Appian Way Energy Partners, was the CISE roundtable guest on Wednesday, March 23, 2016. \u00a0Foster discussed his career in the energy trading industry since completing his PhD at Boston University and said that he \u201cuses all the knowledge he learned from BU and applies it\u201d in his current work.<\/p>\n<p>While at BU, Foster earned his PhD in Systems Engineering. His faculty advisor, Michael Caramanis, said that Foster \u201cmade himself noticed,\u201d and as a result of his research, he \u201chad multiple offers from US Berkeley, ICF Consulting, FERC, and PJM,\u201d among others upon graduation.<\/p>\n<p>Foster worked as a Senior Energy Trader at Edison Mission Marketing and Trading in 2014. From here, he and four colleagues founded Appian Way, a boutique energy trading firm. Their new firm is located in Cambridge, MA, and focuses on trading in wholesale competitive electricity markets throughout the USA.<\/p>\n<p>This trade business is fast-paced, aggressive, exciting and directly applicable from his training at BU as it involves real-world problem solving.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like to be around people so the trade path seemed right. There are real-world problem solving analytics so there is ample opportunity for in-house software development,\u201d said Foster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin M. Foster, senior energy trader and principle at Appian Way Energy Partners, was the CISE roundtable guest on Wednesday, March 23, 2016. \u00a0Foster discussed his career in the energy trading industry since completing his PhD at Boston University and said that he \u201cuses all the knowledge he learned from BU and applies it\u201d in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18553,"featured_media":0,"parent":32411,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18553"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30191,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30190\/revisions\/30191"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}