Tony Kenck
Tony Kenck formed Practical Portfolio Management LLC in 2020 after a long career with Chevron. Although he started his career as an earth scientist (Colorado School of Mines, BSc. Geophysical Engineering '79), he found himself repeatedly drawn to decision and risk analysis. He knew in his gut that those analyses could be improved and were important. He was on Texaco's Exploration Risk Committee and developed economic analyst skills to screen new opportunities more effectively. While serving as...See more
Tony Kenck formed Practical Portfolio Management LLC in 2020 after a long career with Chevron. Although he started his career as an earth scientist (Colorado School of Mines, BSc. Geophysical Engineering '79), he found himself repeatedly drawn to decision and risk analysis. He knew in his gut that those analyses could be improved and were important. He was on Texaco's Exploration Risk Committee and developed economic analyst skills to screen new opportunities more effectively. While serving as the "spreadsheet dude" for Texaco Brazil's New Country Entry Team, he earned an MBA from the University of St. Thomas, thereby completing his journey to the dark side. He first learned about efficient frontiers in his MBA Finance class. It seemed like destiny. When Chevron and Texaco merged in 2001, he joined the international upstream planning and strategy group. In that role, he led the development of tools and standards used at Chevron for over 20 years. Subsequently, he became the Manager of Planning and Portfolio in Chevron's Corporate Business Development Department, providing portfolio perspectives on a wide range of multi-billion-dollar investment opportunities. He developed teaching materials and eventually trained hundreds of people in portfolio analysis and basic financial and economic decision metrics. Since leaving Chevron, he has focused on writing Strategic Business Portfolio Management and engaged in various consulting roles. His portfolio analysis and management experience includes corporate center, exploration, research and development, environmental remediation, acquisitions and divestitures, and carbon reduction. His passion is teaching the next generation of portfolio analysts and helping firms implement their own portfolio management practices and tools. Tony is a Fellow of the Society of Decision Professionals (SDP) and the President of the Denver Chapter of the SDP. He and his wife, Kathleen, live in Golden, Colorado. Tony loves to help firms discover opportunities to do portfolio work. He is available for free initial consultations and longer-term engagements and is happy to talk with anyone about portfolio management. He believes that good portfolio analysis and management is the next frontier for engineering, finance, and economics and is eager to help companies improve in that direction. See less
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