A Career Built on Primary Sources.
A government affairs authority based in New York City, with a practitioner’s record across energy regulation, legislative strategy, and external affairs.
The Practitioner’s Foundation.
Michael-Christopher Warren’s career was shaped inside the government and external affairs function at Pepco Holdings and Exelon Corporation — two of the most complex utility operating environments in the Mid-Atlantic region, spanning Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C. The work was consequential and unforgiving: stakeholder coalition management across multiple regulatory jurisdictions, direct engagement with Public Utility Commissions at the state and federal level, legislative relationship management across active session calendars, and the kind of practitioner fluency with how power actually moves that no briefing document can replicate.
The sector is energy and utilities — the vertical where government affairs and regulatory proceedings determine whether capital gets deployed, whether rates get approved, whether projects move or stall. That is the practitioner’s foundation. It applies equally across any regulated industry where the same mechanics operate.
When the Tools Don’t Exist,
Build Them.
The Character Reveal.
RegulatorIndex was born from a practitioner’s frustration with fragmented, inconsistent, and often inaccessible Public Utility Commission data across 50 states. After years of navigating the problem, Michael-Christopher Warren built the infrastructure he’d always needed: every U.S. Public Utility Commission, every state, organized and indexed for professionals who make high-stakes decisions and can’t afford to work from incomplete information.
StatecraftCRM was born from a different version of the same frustration — the relationship side. The relationships were the most valuable asset in government affairs, and they lived in spreadsheets and the institutional memory of whoever happened to be at the organization longest. When that person left, the relationships left with them. No generic CRM was built for government affairs. So he built one: $59 per user per month, no implementation fees, purpose-built for how this work actually gets done.
Both projects reveal the same thing about the approach: when existing structures are inadequate, the answer is not to work around them — it is to build something better and make it available to the field.
Primary Practice. Adjacent Disciplines.
ENERGY & UTILITIES
Where regulatory proceedings, legislative calendars, and utility capital strategy converge. The primary practice domain — multi-state PUC proceedings, stakeholder coalition management, rate case strategy, and the relationship mechanics that determine outcomes at the commission level.
TECHNOLOGY
AI infrastructure, data center development, and technology platforms are discovering for the first time that government has opinions about what they build. The same practitioner mechanics that govern utility proceedings govern the state-level proceedings that determine where data centers get built and at what power cost.
INFRASTRUCTURE
Developers navigating state regulatory approvals, permitting proceedings, and stakeholder coalition dynamics. The capital is patient. The commission calendar is not.
FINANCE
Institutional capital flowing into regulated assets needs practitioners who understand what a commission order actually means for returns — before the asset is acquired, not after.
Beyond the Boardroom.
Institutional Stewardship
Serving on the board of the Friends of Art & Design High School, the oldest public school of its kind in New York City, supporting the next generation of design and arts professionals. The school’s alumni roster includes Tony Bennett, Calvin Klein, Harvey Fierstein, Marc Jacobs, and Art Spiegelman — a legacy that reflects what disciplined creative development produces over time.
Board Service
Excel Golf is Maryland’s premier junior golf program, developing the next generation of players while using the game as a vehicle for life skills, leadership, and community. Serving on the board reflects a long-standing commitment to youth development and civic investment beyond the professional sphere.
The practitioners who shape consequential outcomes in government affairs are not the ones with the most connections or the loudest presence in the room. They are the ones who understand the actual mechanics — who read the primary sources, who know how a bill dies in committee, who can map a stakeholder landscape before anyone else has identified the stakeholders. That fluency is built over time, tested in real engagements, and either sharpens or atrophies depending on how seriously a practitioner takes the discipline. This is the work.
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