Tayler Amatto
Tayler Amatto is an associate principal in Charles River Associates’ Energy Practice located in Calgary, where she advises clients on investment strategy, energy market participation, and long-term planning across North American electricity and fuel markets.
With a background in both consulting and private equity, Ms. Amatto brings over a decade of experience helping utilities, developers, and public sector agencies navigate market reform, deploy capital, and integrate large-scale energy loads. Her work is grounded in techno-economic analysis, resource adequacy planning, and commercial strategy development for emerging energy technologies.
Ms. Amatto has deep expertise in capacity and energy market reform, large-load integration—particularly for data centers and industrial decarbonization—and early-stage project development. She supports clients in market entry strategy, due diligence, and go/no-go investment decision-making for capital-intensive infrastructure, with a strong focus on energy transition and decarbonization investments. Her advisory work spans utilities, oil and gas, pipeline, agriculture, low-carbon fuels, and manufacturing sectors.
Before joining CRA, Ms. Amatto served as Senior Vice President at Azimuth Capital Management, a private equity firm focused on energy transition investments and held consulting roles at PwC Canada. She supported portfolio companies and clients with strategic planning, valuation, commercial structuring, and stakeholder engagement.
Ms. Amatto is a member of the Association of International Energy Negotiators (formerly the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators), an independent not-for-profit professional membership association that supports international energy negotiators around the world. She currently serves as a committee member for the Canada Chapter and is the region’s Women Negotiators lead.
In addition, Ms. Amatto serves as Vice President and Board Member of the Energy Leadership Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to building a community of connected and solutions-oriented leaders for the evolving energy sector.
Ms. Amatto holds a BA in Economics with a concentration in Energy Economics from the University of Calgary.