Andrew Tang is the Senior Director of Pacific Gas and Electric Company's Integrated Demand-side Management Products team.  Andrew's team is responsible for developing new products and programs that enhance PG&E's large and growing portfolio of integrated customer offerings.  This industry-leading portfolio spans a broad range of customer-focused programs, including energy efficiency, demand response, automated energy management, electric vehicles, and distributed generation and storage. Prior to joining PG&E, Mr. Tang served as Director of European WiMAX Solutions Development for Intel Corporation following 15 years as an investment banker.   Mr. Tang graduated from Wesleyan University with a BA in Mathematics and Economics. 

Linda Jackman is the Vice President of Product Strategy and Management for the Utilities Global Business Unit at Oracle.  An Australian, Linda studied Accounting and Information Systems at Curtin University in Perth, Australia and is undertaking MBA studies at University of Queensland, Brisbane Australia.  She has over 20 years experience in information systems, specializing in capital intensive industries.  After 10 years working in Europe with one of the big six accounting firms, a two year break working for the United Nations in Central America and two years back in Australia leading systems implementations at some of the major mining and utilities companies, she moved to North America in 2001.  In 2005 she joined SPL WorldGroup as Vice President of Product Management for Customer Care & Billing.  She was promoted at the acquisition of SPL by Oracle and today she directs a team of product managers in the mission critical applications for utilities for Oracle.

Tom received a Bachelor and Master of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Manitoba in 1982 and 1986 respectively. He also obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering from Mississippi State University in 2005.

He is currently employed by San Diego Gas & Electric Company ("SDG&E") as a Chief Engineer on the Smart Grid Team. His present responsibilities involve smart grid strategy and policy for transmission and distribution issues including equipment, operations, planning, distributed generation and development of new technologies. He is also the Principal Investigator on DOE and CEC funded Micro Grid projects.

He has held various positions with other North American utilities and equipment manufacturers since graduating in 1982. His experience includes electric utility design, planning and operation and equipment design, development and manufacturing.

Tom is an IEEE Power Engineering and Dielectric and Electrical Insulation Society member. Tom was also the former Failure Mechanism Technical Committee Chair and Secretary of the Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society and Working Group Member for Surge Arresters. Tom is also a member of Phi Kappa Phi Honors Society. He is also a registered Professional Engineer, Electrical Engineering, in the State of California. He has authored several papers on surge protection of equipment and testing of cables.

Mr. Campbell was a member of the Commission's Division of Strategic Planning prior to joining Commissioner Chong's staff. Previously, he worked for three years as an investment banker in Salomon Smith Barney's Global Energy group in New York, where he advised energy companies in mergers, acquisitions and corporate finance.  Prior to that, Mr. Campbell worked for ExxonMobil for two and a half years in Houston as a reservoir engineer overseeing several oil and gas fields. Mr. Campbell also served as a graduate intern on the U.S. Senate's Energy and Natural Resources Committee.  Mr. Campbell holds a Masters degree in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering and a B.A. degree in Economics from Rice University.

Michael J. Carlson is responsible for smart grid operations for GridPoint, the pioneer of an innovative software platform to address today’s energy challenges while aligning the interests of electric utilities, consumers and the environment. In this capacity, he leads the engineering, delivery, and enterprise solutions organizations.  The former Xcel Energy Vice President and Chief Information Officer was a key player in designing and implementing the utility's groundbreaking smart grid project, the $100 million SmartGridCity in Boulder, Colorado. Mr. Carlson has more than 24 years of experience in finance and technology, focusing his expertise in the application and delivery of technology to drive business value.

At Xcel Energy, Mr. Carlson was responsible for increasing the value that technology delivers to the organization by leveraging the utility's IT portfolio, including both technology and process, across the company. Additionally, he was responsible for the utility's Smart Grid strategy, and his organization included the Utility Innovations Group, which is the technology R&D function for Xcel Energy.  Previously at Xcel Energy, he served as the Vice President for Business Transformation & Customer within Business Systems, after originally starting with the company as the Director of the Program Management Office.

Mr. Carlson joined Xcel Energy in 2002 from Arthur Andersen, LLP, where he was a practice director in the areas of technology integration and financial operations. In addition to his consulting experience, his background includes a number of financial and management positions within the medical industry, serving as CEO of a large medical practice and the CFO of a public laboratory services group. Mr. Carlson holds a B.S. in Accounting and Management Systems from Union College and an M.B.A. in finance from Pepperdine University.

Dr. Cazalet has over forty years of electric power experience as an executive, board member, consultant, and entrepreneur. 

In 2007 Dr Cazalet co-founded MegaWatt Storage Farms.  MegaWatt deploys and manages grid-scale electricity storage farms for multiple applications  including integration of renewables .

Dr. Cazalet was appointed by California Governor Schwarzenegger in 2004 to a three-year term as a Governor of the California ISO.  The ISO operates the high voltage transmission system in California.

Dr. Cazalet founded APX in 1996 and served for many years as CEO.   APX provides independent transaction services for electric power and environmental registries.

Dr. Cazalet founded Decision Focus, Inc. (DFI) in 1976 a leading firm in energy and electric power market modeling.  At DFI, previously at SRI International, and  independently, Dr. Cazalet has led high-level decision analysis engagements for many  corporations and government agencies.

Dr. Cazalet currently serves as Co-chair of the OASIS Technical Committee on Energy Market Information Exchange.  This committee, in association with NIST and NAESB, is developing standards for electricity price and product communication for the Smart Grid including distributed generation, storage and demand response.

Dr. Cazalet holds a PhD from Stanford University focused on economics, decision analysis and power system planning and degrees in engineering from the University of Washington.

Kevin Dasso is Senior Director of Smart Grid at Pacific Gas and Electric Company.  Kevin is a Registered Professional Engineer in California and is a member of the IEEE Power Engineering Society.  He also participates in the Western Electricity Coordinating Council, Reliability Policy Issues Committee, and is a former chair of the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) Planning Committee Reliability Assessment Subcommittee.  Kevin received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering at Iowa State University and a M.S. in Electric Engineering at Santa Clara University.  He has also attended the UCLA Engineering and Management Program.  Kevin pursued a career at Pacific Gas and Electric Company in 1981 as an Engineer.  He has held positions of increasing responsibilities in transmission and distribution planning, engineering, operations, maintenance and construction.  Kevin is currently responsible for developing PG&E’s Smart Grid strategy and is the Transmission and Distribution business lead for developing regulatory and legislative policy.

Paul De Martini is vice president of Advanced Technology in the Transmission & Distribution Business Unit of Southern California Edison (SCE). Advanced Technology is SCE's R&D organization responsible for SmartGrid development, which includes advanced grid technologies, electric transportation, smart metering and integration of energy smart consumer products.

Prior to joining SCE in 2002, De Martini held senior management positions with ICF Consulting, Sempra Energy, Coastal Corporation and PG&E Corporation.

De Martini is a member of the California Energy Commission’s PIER Advisory Board, EPRI’s Smart Grid Advisory Committee, the Utility Smart Grid Executives working group and co-chair of the Western Electric Industry R&D Collaborative.

De Martini earned a MBA from the University of Southern California and a BS from the University of San Francisco. He also completed the technology management program at the California Institute of Technology. De Martini is currently a Fellow of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Eric has been with Silver Spring Networks since it was founded in 2002. Eric has more than ten years of experience in advanced metering and communications sales and marketing. He has held various roles in customer development, new product development and product introductions. Eric has presented a number of technical and commercial papers related to advanced metering and smart grid technologies and was a founder of OpenAMI. He currently serves on the board of directors of the DRSG Coalition (Demand Response and Smart Grid) and has served on the Automatic Meter Reading Association’s (AMRA) Marketing and Development Committee. Eric previously spent 9 years at Procter & Gamble in various sales and marketing roles. He holds a B.S. in economics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Last summer Eric installed solar-powered lights around his home.

Rick Geiger has been with Cisco for 5 years, formerly as Director of Engineering in Cisco's Physical Security Business Unit. Prior to joining Cisco, Mr. Geiger was VP Engineering for GE Security in Physical Security, video surveillance and access control. Rick has in depth experience in the global utility market with more than 10 years as VP Engineering and Chief Technical Officer for Itron. Presently Solutions Director, Utilities and Smart Grid, on Cisco's Business Transformation Team, Rick and the Vertical Team serve the Utility markets with Secure, Resilient and Scalable network solutions for smart grid, advanced metering, distribution automation and utility telemetry.

Rick is an IEEE Senior Member and Member of the Power and Energy Society.

Erich Gunther is the Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of EnerNex Corporation in Knoxville, Tennessee where he helps EnerNex clients define their strategic direction in basic R&D, technology, and product development. Erich has 25 years of experience in the design and development of innovative solutions to a wide array of power system problems, most notably in ways to take advantage of communications networks and technology to improve the efficiency, operating practices, and security of the electric power system.

Most recently, Erich is the stakeholder relationship management lead for the NIST Smart Grid interoperability standards development and harmonization effort.

In 2004, Erich was appointed to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) GridWise Architecture Council - a team of experts assembled to articulate the guiding principles that constitute the architecture of a future, intelligent, energy system.

Erich and his team at EnerNex were recognized at the 2007 and 2008 DOE GridWeek conferences by receiving the GridWeek Smart Grid Award for “Smart Grid Implementation and Deployment Leadership.” Erich received his BSEE from Gannon University in 1980 and his Master of Engineering degree in Electric Power Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1984. He is a registered professional engineer in the state of Tennessee.

Erfan Ibrahim is a Technical Executive in the Intelligrid program area of the Power Delivery & Utilization Sector. He leads the research that focuses on the communications, systems management and cyber security infrastructure for the utility Smart Grid with particular emphasis on Home Area Networks (HAN), Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and Internet based Wide Area Networking.

Before joining EPRI, Dr. Ibrahim founded and managed The Bit Bazaar LLC (TBB), a full service IT and business consulting firm, offering services to clients in the High Tech, Financial Services, and Energy sectors. At TBB Dr. Ibrahim focused on wireless communications, network management, and information security technologies with a particular emphasis on aligning the IT goals of his clients with their business goals for sustained competitive advantage.

Prior to establishing The Bit Bazaar LLC, Dr. Ibrahim’s career included the following positions: VP of Sales & Marketing at Jyra Research, Product Manager for Network Management at Pacific Bell Network Integration (now AT&T), Science and Math Lecturer at National University, Nuclear Fusion Research Engineer at UCLA and Plasma Physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Lab.

Dr. Ibrahim received a Ph. D. in Nuclear Engineering from University of California Berkeley, an MS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas Austin, and a B.S. Honors in Physics from Syracuse University (Suma Cum Laude).

Dr. Ibrahim is a Phi Beta Kappa, a Tau Beta Pi, Who’s Who Amongst American Colleges & Universities and Who’s Who Amongst IT professionals.

Hal LaFlash is the director of emerging clean technologies in the energy procurement organization at Pacific Gas and Electric Company.   

His duties include assessing the state of technologies that will affect how PG&E fills its future resource needs, which includes understanding, evaluating, and supporting emerging renewable energy and other clean energy technologies.  

Hal has been at PG&E for 29 years where he has held various positions in energy efficiency, non-utility generation, gas transportation, resource planning, and renewable energy policy.  He also held positions at PG&E Corporation in corporate development and business planning.  

Hal was a member of the Solar Task Force of the Western Governors Association’s Clean and Diversified Energy Initiative; he co-authored “Hedging Carbon Risk: Protecting Customers and Shareholders from the Financial Risk Associated with Carbon Dioxide Emissions,” which was published by the Electricity Journal; and he is currently a co-chair of the Utility Committee of the American Council on Renewable Energy, a member of the Executive Board of the California Biomass Collaborative, and a judge and member of the Board of Advisors for the California Clean Tech Open business plan competition.

Hal has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and a Masters in Business Administration.

Praveen K. Mandal brings to Coulomb Technologies more than 18 years of experience. Prior to Coulomb, he was vice president of research and development for Carrier Ethernet Solutions at Lucent Technologies. Before joining Lucent through an acquisition, Mr. Mandal was the vice president of engineering at Riverstone Networks, a company well regarded by many analysts as having the top technologies in the Carrier Ethernet routing market. Mr. Mandal joined Riverstone when Pipal Systems, where he served as CEO and Founder, was acquired. Before founding Pipal, Mr. Mandal held consulting and Venture Partner positions with numerous Venture Capital firms in Silicon Valley, providing his insight and expertise on market trends, telecommunications technology, and team assessments. Mr. Mandal is a veteran of five successful start-ups, including Redback Networks, Global Internet and ZeitNet. Mr. Mandal holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Santa Clara University.

Charles Ortiz has been at SRI International for 17 years where he is a Program Director in the AI Center. SRI International is an independent, nonprofit research institute conducting client sponsored research and development for government agencies, commercial businesses, foundations, and other organizations. At SRI, Dr. Ortiz leads a group of researchers in the study and development of multiagent and multirobotic systems. Among the areas with which his research group is engaged in is the development of very complex systems that can operate both autonomously and collaboratively with each other and with humans. This includes the development of distributed algorithms through which such systems can self-organize and adapt to novel and problem situations as well as support effective human interaction and understanding. Dr. Ortiz is also a member of SRI's Center of Excellence in Energy which enables multidisciplinary efforts at SRI to address important energy problems, from developing alternative energy sources to using conventional resources in a more sustainable manner. Within SRI’s Center of Excellence in Energy, Dr. Ortiz is working toward shaping technologies developed within his research group to address fundamental technical challenges at the core of the self-healing and adaptive visions of the Smart Grid.

Dr. Ortiz received his Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University. His undergraduate S.B. degree is from MIT in Physics. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University where he conducted research in collaborative multiagent systems. Dr. Ortiz has served as an Adjunct Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Berkeley and is a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University. He is the author of numerous publications including the book Distributed Sensor Networks: A multiagent perspective and Collaborative Multiagent Systems (for MIT Press, in preparation).

David Pacyna is Senior Vice President & General Manager of the NAFTA Transmission & Distribution Divisions of Siemens Energy Inc (SEI).  He has served in this capacity since January 2009, when Siemens formally brought together its power generation, T&D, and oil & gas businesses to form SEI.

Siemens is a leading provider of transmission & distribution technology and smart grid solutions, serving electric utility and industrial customers throughout North America and around the world.  Siemens maintains over 20 locations throughout the NAFTA region to deliver manufactured product, developed software solutions, systems engineering expertise, T&D network analysis/consulting, turnkey project execution, and complete service capability.

Prior to that, Dave served as the President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Siemens Power Transmission & Distribution, Inc. (SPT&D). He had served in this capacity since 2002.  Dave came to SPT&D from Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation in Orlando, where, he was a member of the senior management team and served as the Vice President in charge of Global Business Strategy.

Dave began his career in the power industry in 1984 at the Westinghouse Electric Corporation.  When Siemens acquired Westinghouse from CBS in August 1998, he was the vice president of power generation sales for Latin America and Canada and in 1999, was named vice president in charge of global business strategy.  He has extensive international experience within the power industry, having led project development, and sales and marketing efforts in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, the former Soviet Union, Turkey, Canada, and Latin and South America.

Dave is also currently serving as a member of the U.S. National Executive Committee of CIGRE.  He is a Member of the Board of the Power Equipment Division of the National Electric Manufacturers Association (NEMA).

Dave holds a BS degree in mechanical engineering from Union College in Schenectady, NY.  He and his wife, Andrea, reside in Raleigh, North Carolina, with their two children.

Gary Rackliffe was appointed to Vice President of Smart Grids North America in May 2009.  He leads ABB's Smart Grid initiative in North America, including business development, strategic partnerships, and ABB’s marketing and product strategies.

Rackliffe has over 25 years of industry experience in both transmission and distribution and has worked for ABB for 17 years in Raleigh, NC.  He was previously the Vice President of Marketing and Sales for the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic sales region, covering ABB T&D equipment, power electronic products, systems, and services for the utility, power generation, and public power customers in the region.  Other positions include Vice President of Strategic Marketing for the Power Products and Power Systems divisions of ABB in North America and he has also managed Marketing, Sales, and Business Development for ABB’s Network Management business that provides SCADA/EMS/DMS/OMS and market systems.  He directed ABB’s Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS) for the U.S., developed systems business for all ABB utility products and services, and managed ABB’s distribution operations and planning software business in other assignments at ABB.  

Rackliffe holds BS and ME degrees in Electric Power Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MBA degree from Carnegie Mellon University.

Rackliffe is a Senior Member of IEEE, a member of the GridWise Smart Grid Implementation Committee, a member of the DistribuTECH advisory committee, and is a Registered Professional Engineer in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.   He is the co-author of a book on T&D planning, and has published several technical papers.

Srikanth Rajagopalan is Lead Product Manager for Infrastructure/Advanced Projects at Google. He is responsible for Google PowerMeter, a Google.org project. Google PowerMeter is a free home energy monitoring tool for consumers, enabling real-time access to energy consumption data towards making smart energy choices.

Srikanth is an accomplished technology executive with more than 15 years experience in the industry. At Google, he has tackled responsibilities ranging from PowerMeter to making Google’s Infrastructure efficient and Google Book Search.  Prior to joining Google, Srikanth managed large-scale software projects at NASA Ames Research Center, demonstrating advances to autonomous robotics and constraint based planning systems for use in MER type robotic missions. Before that, Srikanth was Director of Product Management & Engineering at i2, where he managed cross-functional teams developing decision support and optimization solutions for supply chain networks in Retail & Service Management organizations. With a passion for delivering customer value, Srikanth played a key role in establishing i2’s leadership position with marquee Fortune 500 organizations.

Srikanth has a master’s in Operations Research from Purdue University and bachelor’s in Industrial Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He is currently pursuing an MBA at Wharton, majoring in Entrepreneurship.

John Thomas is a senior marketing strategist in Intel’s Eco Technology Group where he helps lead the Intel Open Energy Initiative with a focus on smart grid and smart building technologies.  John has over 20 years’ high tech industry experience spanning multiple ICT sectors.  He has been with Intel for over 12 years in global marketing, business development, and market development roles with an emphasis on digital media and entertainment and energy.  John has a Business Administration BS, Marketing, with Honors from Indiana University School of Business.

Adrian has more than 20 years of executive management and leadership experience. As CEO, he focuses on expanding Tendril’s customer base through multiple sales and marketing channels, including alliances with leading companies. Adrian is also the vice-chair of the ZigBee Alliance, an association of companies working together to enable reliable, cost-effective, low-power, wirelessly networked, monitoring and control products based on an open global standard. Prior to Tendril, Adrian served as both interim CEO and executive vice president of Ember Corporation, a leading semiconductor provider to the Smart Grid, where he guided the company’s market strategy through its critical early-growth stage. He received his education at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, the British Army’s prestigious officer training academy.

Will West is chief executive officer of Control4. Since co-founding the company in March of 2003, he has led the Company's efforts to create a revolutionary new line of affordable home automation solutions.

Will has raised more than $300 million in private capital to start his last three companies. In 1998, he co-founded STSN (now iBAHN), the worldwide leader in broadband services for business travelers serving millions of customer in thousands of hotels. Prior to founding STSN, Will was CEO, and co-founder of PHAST Corporation. Under his leadership, PHAST became the leading manufacturer of high-end home automation equipment.

Will's other professional experience includes Proctor & Gamble, the FSLIC, and Wasatch Advisors. He holds a degree in Finance from the University of Utah, and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds the CFA designation.

Will serves as chairman of the board of the Utah Capital Investment Corporation (the State of Utah's "Fund of Funds"). He also served as chairman of the board for Utah Technology Council (UTC). Will is currently on Utah Business Magazine's list of the 100 Most Influential People in the state, and on Connect Magazine's Top 25. He was named Utah Valley Entrepreneur of the year in 2004 and in 2006 he was named the Ernst & Young Master Entrepreneur Of The Year in the region. In 2008 he was named the Utah CEO of the Year by the Utah Technology Council.

Mike Wojcik, Manager of Enterprise Data Solutions, has ten years of experience in the telecommunications industry, primarily working with Utilities.  Mike has developed, sold, and implemented custom solutions for metering, field force automation, machine to machine, business continuity and Smart Grid solutions to his utility clients.  Mike currently resides in Southern California and has responsibility for the West Area.

David Leeds directs the smart grid research practice at GTM.  Mr. Leeds has guest lectured on the subject at MIT, Stanford, and The Wharton School of Business (University of Pennsylvania). He has been quoted as an expert by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post; his perspective pieces have appeared in a variety of publications including BusinessWeek, Power Magazine and Fortune.  He is the author of the groundbreaking report “The Smart Grid in 2010,” which has been downloaded more than 10,000 times.

An avid world-traveler, David has come into contact with many of our most pressing environmental and social challenges. His research, focused on the convergence of IT, telecom and energy networks, leads him to believe that a smarter future is possible if we can reinvent our collective relationship with energy. Mr. Leeds completed his degree in international business and finance at Trinity College at Oxford (U.K.) and the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. He lives and works in New York City.

Jeff St. John comes to Greentech Media from The Fresno Bee, where he covered solar-power, biofuel and biomass developments in California's Central Valley, and the Tri-City Herald in Kennewick, Wash., where his beat included nuclear power and nuclear-waste remediation, as well as the research and development of biofuels, fuel cells, energy-management systems and other energy technologies. He also has written for the Anchorage Daily News, UpsideToday.com, the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and he won a National Headliner Award in 2005. Jeff has a master's degree from the U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and believes green technology will save the planet.

Rick Thompson brings 14 years of industry experience from leading technology start-ups, incumbent networking and communications companies, and technology market research firms. Most recently, Rick was senior analyst at Heavy Reading, the market research arm of Light Reading, the dominant online media company in the telecommunications market. CMP bought Light Reading in 2005. Prior to Heavy Reading, Rick was a principal at PointEast Research, where he led market analysis and strategic consulting across a wide range of network communications market segments.

Rick previously served as the vice president of marketing at PanGo Networks, a wireless software company, and as director of product management and marketing at Sycamore Networks Inc. At Sycamore, he defined the product strategy and executed the launch of the industry's first intelligent optical switching platform. Under his leadership, Sycamore deployed several of the world's largest intelligent optical network infrastructures for global wired and wireless service providers. Prior to joining Sycamore, Rick held similar product management positions with Packet Engines, a pioneer of Gigabit Ethernet switching that was later acquired by Alcatel, and FORE Systems, a leader in ATM networking that was later acquired by Marconi and, subsequently, Ericsson. Mr. Thompson earned a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from the University of Pittsburgh.

Prior to joining Greentech Media, Eric Wesoff founded Sage Marketing Partners in 2000 to provide sales and marketing-consulting services to venture-capital firms and their portfolio companies in the alternative energy and telecommunications sectors. Mr. Wesoff has become a well-known, respected authority and speaker in these fields. He also was the publisher of the Venture Power newsletter, a subscription-only newsletter covering venture-capital investment in renewable energy.

Eric's expertise covers solar power, fuel cells, biofuels and advanced batteries. His strengths are in market research and analysis, business development and due diligence for investors. He frequently consults for energy startups and Silicon Valley's premier venture capitalists.