Research Support in London

Vince,
Steve Leppard informed my today that he will be moving to Enron Metals. I
think that leaves a leadership hole in Research here. When that happens in a
place like this, resources get diverted to the squeakiest wheel. Do you have
any advice? I am concerned that London continues to lag behind in the
implementation and analysis of VaR - most commodities are on spreadsheets and
there is not a lot of attention on calibration, analyzing output, refining,
improving etc..
pls advise
ted