Meet Our Team

Sarah CottleExecutive Vice President and General Manager, Dow Jones Energy

Sarah has built and led global businesses across news, data, analytics, advisory, and events, partnering with customers in energy, commodities, financial institutions, corporates, and governments. She has held senior leadership roles at some of the most respected media and information brands, including S&P Global, Bloomberg, CNBC, and ICIS (RELX). She joins Dow Jones Energy to lead the entire energy, chemical, and environmental commodities business, including OPIS and its business lines: Chemical Market Analytics, McCloskey, PetroChem Wire, Axxis, A2i, and Eco-Movement.

Her career began in journalism as a markets reporter for Dow Jones in Singapore, covering commodities across Asia Pacific. She went on to lead global energy coverage from London and to report on telecoms, media, and technology from Paris for the newswires and The Wall Street Journal. These experiences built the subject-matter expertise and international perspective that have informed her transition into executive leadership, where she consistently combines editorial integrity with strategic vision and commercial growth.

Prior to joining Dow Jones, Sarah held senior general management positions at S&P Global, bringing together global teams through transformation spanning integration, technology, and culture. She scaled data, insight, and advisory businesses, introduced new commercial strategies, and advanced product modernization, helping customers navigate complex markets and make better-informed decisions.

Her extensive background equips her with a deep understanding of the complex markets Dow Jones Energy serves, as well as the critical importance of reliable data for our customers.

Bryan SchuttSenior Vice President, Head of Strategy and Operations, Dow Jones Energy

Bryan is the Head of Strategy & Operations for Dow Jones Energy, where he is responsible for shaping and guiding the organization’s long-term direction and competitive position. He leads the team responsible for making sure the business grows in the right markets, with the right capabilities, at the right time.

Bryan joins Dow Jones after working most recently in strategy roles in the data and financial services sector, developing expertise in transformation & change management. He also spent more than a decade of his career focused on the oil and gas industry and leading large teams in news and research.

Bryan has a Master’s Degree in Energy Policy and Climate from Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism from Penn State University. He is based in the suburbs of Washington, D.C.

Militza (Mila) AtchineSenior Vice President, Head of Sales, Dow Jones Energy

Mila brings over 25 years of distinguished experience in global commodities markets, with particular depth in Oil and Gas. She began her career in commodities in London, where she developed deep market expertise, leveraging market insights and pricing in trading. In 2008, she joined S&P Global Energy (formerly Platts) as a Business Development Manager, responsible for strategic accounts globally. Throughout her tenure at S&P, Mila advanced through multiple senior commercial leadership positions, driving customer experience strategy, product commercialization, and leading high-performing commercial teams across North America and Latin America that consistently delivered exceptional results.

Mila holds a Master’s degree in Communication from the University of Paris VIII, France. She is multilingual, fluent in four languages, and has lived in London, Paris, Valencia, and Belgrade before relocating to New York, where she now resides with her husband and two daughters, Sasha and Bella.

Jenny PaurysSenior Vice President, Head of Research, Consulting & Community, Dow Jones Energy

Jenny Paurys is Head of Research, Consulting & Community at Dow Jones Energy, where she leads global strategy across market research, bespoke consulting, events, and professional user communities.

Over two decades, Jenny has built and scaled information and analytics businesses that help clients make confident decisions in complex, fast-moving markets. Her experience in guiding insight-driven businesses spans energy, commodities, supply chains, government, trade, and financial markets, with a consistent focus on credibility, analytical rigor, and commercial impact.

Jenny’s leadership journey features roles ranging from senior individual contributor, to head of a large B2B news service, to end-to-end P&L ownership of a global insights business. A committed builder of teams and communities, Jenny creates environments where experts do their best work and customers gain trusted, decision-grade insight. She is based in Washington, D.C.

Andy CritchlowHead of Energy News, Dow Jones Energy

Andy Critchlow is the Head of Energy News at Dow Jones Energy, with over 26 years of experience covering energy, commodities, and geopolitics. His extensive editorial background includes senior roles at S&P Global, Reuters Breakingviews, The Daily Telegraph, Bloomberg News and Middle East Economic Digest. Andrew’s reporting has covered OPEC, the 2003 Iraq invasion and the Arab Spring. He also led award-winning investigative reporting of corruption as Middle East Managing Editor for Dow Jones Newswires and was bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal in Australia. Prior to his journalism career, Andy served with the Grenadier Guards in East Africa, the Middle East and Northern Ireland. He holds a Masters from Durham University in Middle Politics and a degree in Peace Studies from Bradford University.

Shelley KerrSenior Vice President, Head of Price Reporting, Dow Jones Energy

Shelley brings 25 years of experience building and scaling global commodity benchmarks, news and analytics businesses. She joins Dow Jones Energy from S&P Global Energy, where she most recently served as Vice President and Head of Emerging Benchmarks at Platts, leading a team of 230 commodity market experts across biofuels, chemicals, energy transition, agriculture, fertilizers and freight.

During her 12 years at S&P Global, Shelley held a number of senior leadership roles spanning product development, data analytics and market reporting, including LNG and generating fuels. She also led major cross-divisional initiatives and brings particularly relevant experience from the post-merger work involving Dow Jones, CMA, CMM and OPIS following S&P Global’s acquisition of IHS Markit.

Prior to S&P Global, Shelley spent more than a decade in editorial and market reporting leadership roles at ICIS and Bunkerworld, covering markets including chemicals, oil products, generating fuels, bunker fuel and lubricants.

Ihsan RahimVice President, Business Development, Dow Jones Energy

As Head of Benchmark Strategy and Institutional Engagement, Ihsan leads Dow Jones Energy’s global initiatives to accelerate benchmark adoption and broaden institutional reach. Leading an international team of sector specialists, he partners across Editorial, Product, Sales, and Marketing to expand benchmarks into core and emerging commodity markets while deepening high-level relationships with regulators, governments, and industry bodies. Ihsan brings more than two decades of senior commercial and editorial leadership in energy and commodities, previously holding key roles at S&P Global Energy across benchmark strategy, strategic accounts, and market development.