Mark
Grenchik, M.A., Senior Economist
Mr. Grenchik is a Senior Economist at RCF, where he
analyzes postal volume developments, energy demand and
supply, and electricity pricing. Prior to joining RCF, he
was a lead analyst in the Wholesale Energy Group at ComEd.
His duties included supporting the trading desk and
devising pricing strategies to reduce costs of power
purchases. He served as an expert witness before the
Illinois Commerce Commission in deliberations seeking to
utilize market prices to calculate stranded investment
recovery under Illinois’ electricity restructuring law.
Earlier, Mr. Grenchik was a senior economist at the Chicago
Board of Trade. He analyzed modifications to agricultural
futures and futures options contracts, conducted research
for new product development, and completed studies in
support of changes to locational price differentials,
delivery points, price limits, and speculative position
limits. As an adjunct faculty member in the Financial
Markets and Trading program at the Illinois Institute of
Technology, Mr. Grenchik helped design and co-taught a
course in commodity markets.
Mr. Grenchik received A.B. and A.M. degrees in economics
from the University of Chicago.