Chip Register
Managing Director
Sapient
Excellence in Energy
During Chip Register's three years as the head of Sapient Global Markets, its revenue has grown by 250 percent and now accounts for one-third of Sapient Corporation's total revenue. In that time, the Global Markets business has increased headcount from just over 1,000 to approximately 2,600 employees today.
Not bad for a guy who has only been a consultant for three years. Register began his career trading commodities, helping to develop the trading business for Weyerhaeuser and CIBC World Markets. He then managed Essent Energy Trading, the merchant subsidiary of the largest Dutch utility. He then built and managed several merchant trading businesses for Louis Dreyfus Energy Services, one of the largest privately-held commodity traders in the world. In both of those positions, he honed his knowledge of the energy trading markets, and, in the process, became a Sapient client.
