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AND FOR YOUR AMUSEMENT AND AGGRAVATION
Here's a propaganda public private partnership designed to convince you to go
away and not make trouble. They even make fun of you by saying that you're
envisioning the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in the guise of Smart
Meters...well, maybe you are. Who are they? Siemens, GE, IBM,
advocacy groups, and big power companies. This is what they want you to
think:
And this is their board of directors---it's a very interesting group and that's why we've included it ...
http://smartgridcc.org/about/board
The Smart Grid Collaborative Board has 18 directors who represent commercial,
utility, and advocacy organizations along with SGCC’s Executive Director and an
adviser. Beginning in 2012, the SGCC Board will have staggered terms, with
approximately six directors elected each year to a two-year term.
2012 directors and their affiliations are:
SA Anders
Director of Operations
Citizens’ Utility Board of Oregon
The Citizens’ Utility Board of Oregon and CUB Policy Center is a statewide consumer
advocacy non-profit that works on behalf of Oregon ratepayers and the public
interest in matters of utility, energy, and environmental policy. In her role,
SA manages the development of new projects, development, an annual policy
conference, and the day to day operations of the organization. She works with
partners throughout the Pacific Northwest on policy matters related to smart
grid, electric vehicle, demand response, energy efficiency, and more. SA
oversees the internship and research fellow program and CUB, and has been a
dedicated advocate for the public interest in Oregon since she joined CUB’s team
in 2009. She received her MA in Philosophy from the University of York in
England, and her BA from Berea College in Berea, Kentucky, and worked as an IT
professional before moving into the non-profit sector. SA also serves on the
Oregon League of Conservation Voters Multnomah County Steering Committee, and
volunteers her time to increasing K-12 education in energy, sustainability, and
the environment.
Zanku
Armenian
Director, Public
Affairs
Southern California Edison
Zanku Armenian is currently a senior executive in the Public Affairs department at
Southern California Edison, one of the nation’s largest electric utilities. He
also has served in senior management in the Corporate Communications department.
He currently leads issues management efforts on a variety of utility issues
including SCE’s smart meter and smart grid programs. He is a commissioner for
the Glendale Water & Power Commission, appointed by the Glendale City
Council. He is a Sunday columnist for the Los Angeles Times. Zanku has over 25
years of experience in issues management, crisis communications and technology
marketing communications, with specialized expertise in digital entertainment
and the impact of technology on the entertainment industry; airline industry
issues; and the electric utility/energy industry with a particular focus on
smart grid technology. Previously he worked in Washington, DC in politics,
devising and directing public affairs issue campaigns for major industries
including airlines, defense, technology, telecommunications, entertainment,
pharmaceutical, health care, tobacco and consumer goods. In addition, Zanku
worked in the technology industry in Silicon Valley and led his own corporate
communications consulting practice based in Los Angeles.
Randy
Berry
Vice
President
Power Systems Consultants
Randy Berry has over 20 years of experience in the design, delivery and support of advanced
technology solutions used by the electric industry for the reliable operation of
the grid, including smart grid systems. He is the Vice President of US
operations of PSC. Prior to joining PSC, Mr. Berry worked for AREVA where his
career started in software development and project engineering. During his
tenure with AREVA, he advanced through a number of positions including program
management, marketing director, managing director and vice president. Mr. Berry
also worked for The Boeing Company in Seattle and Singer Link in Maryland,
providing real time systems for the Department of Defense related to underwater
acoustic signal processing. Mr. Berry has also had the privilege of teaching
courses on Computer Operating Systems at the University of Washington. Mr. Berry
graduated Michigan Technological University with a Bachelor of Science degree in
Computer Science.
Laurence
C. Daniels
Assistant People’s Counsel
Office of the People’s Counsel – DC
Attorney Laurence Daniels has worked as Assistant People’s Counsel in
Washington, D.C. for the Office of the People’s Counsel since January 2000.
He represented consumers’ interest in the PowerCentsDC smart grid pilot program
in Washington, D.C. and is currently the lead attorney representing District of
Columbia consumers regarding all matters related to the full deployment of
advanced metering infrastructure. In 1997, Mr. Daniels received his law degree
from Howard University School of Law. He and his wife Gilda, a voting rights
attorney, reside in Mitchellville, Maryland with their two children Lauren and
William.
Vickie
Dorris
Global Solution Leader for Customer
Operations, Energy & Utilities
IBM
Vickie
Dorris brings over 25 years of working in the energy and utilities industry.
She is currently the IBM Global Solution leader for customer solutions for the
Energy & Utilities industry. She is responsible for developing an integrated
customer solutions offering which combines strategy, process, and technology to
help utility clients empower consumers and improve customer satisfaction through
access to information, products, and services that can reduce bills, increase
efficiency, and address their emerging energy needs. Previous to her current
role at IBM, she was Vice President of Sales Vertical markets at Gartner focused
on the Energy & Utilities industry where she doubled their research and
consulting business in the energy vertical. Her professional background
includes: IBM, Sales, Energy & Utilities, 15 years, Gartner, VP Vertical
Markets, 3 years, Lotus Development, National Sales Director, 10 years, and
Texaco, Sr. Business Analyst, 4 years. Vickie graduated from Mississippi State
University’s School of Business with a concentration in Management Information
Systems. In her spare time she enjoys reading, running and spending time with
her husband and three children. She also enjoys working with, Children’s
International Village, a youth exchange organization.
Brent
Dreher
SVP Utility
Sales
Comverge
Brent Dreher joined Comverge in
April 2012. He has more than 27 years of consulting and entrepreneurial
experience in the energy industry working with large regulated utilities,
electric cooperatives and municipal utilities. Prior to joining Comverge, Mr.
Dreher was a Senior Vice President with Five Point Partners, a specialized
provider of strategic, solution delivery and application management consulting
services to organizations within the energy and utility industry. Prior to that,
he was a founder and president of BE Consulting, where he led the formation of
BE’s utility industry practice, including the establishment of a Smart Grid
business. In addition, Mr. Dreher worked at Accenture for more than 11 years,
where he led projects at clients such as Progress Energy and Duke Energy in a
variety of engineering and operations areas in Generation, Transmission and
Distribution.
Patty
Durand
Executive
Director
Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative
Patty Durand is the Executive Director for the Smart Grid Consumer
Collaborative; a consumer focused non-profit aiming to promote the understanding
and benefits of modernized electrical systems among all stakeholders in the
United States. Patty’s prior experience includes working on smart grid research
at Georgia Institute of Technology where she helped prepare and submit smart
grid grant proposals to ARPA-E and DOE. Prior to Georgia Tech Patty was the
State Director for the Georgia Chapter of the Sierra Club, Georgia’s largest
grassroots environmental organization. Patty’s work there focused on programs
addressing climate change and promoting sustainable energy policy. Patty has an
IT background and worked on B2B projects with Hewlett Packard and Compaq
Computers and currently serves on the board of the Smart Energy Society for the
Technology Association of Georgia. Patty has an MBA from the College of William
and Mary in Williamsburg Virginia and a B.S. in Business from Virginia
Commonwealth University in Richmond Virginia.
William
G. “Bill” Jackson Jr.
Senior Manager Demand
Response
Tennessee Valley Authority
William G.
“Bill” Jackson Jr. is currently a Senior Manager Demand Response at the
Tennessee Valley Authority with responsibility to manage the Demand Response
section and products as well as Senior Advisor to the Vice President for
Emerging Technologies across all markets. Bill has over thirty seven years of
experience in the utility industry spanning assignments from Cleveland, Ohio
(Centerior Energy – now FirstEnergy) to Las Vegas, Nevada (Nevada Power – now NV
Energy) to Long Island, New York (Long Island Power Authority) to Portland,
Oregon (Paragon Consulting Services) to now Nashville, Tennessee. His areas of
expertise cross energy efficiency, demand response, program development and
management and strategic planning. Bill has experience in the IOU, public power
and consulting industries and understands the challenges existing in meeting
unique customer, corporate and political needs. He has an MBA from Lake Erie
College in Ohio as well as Management Certificates from the Darden School
University of Virginia and University of Michigan. He was the lead instructor
for APPA in the Energy Efficiency Management Certificate Program and for AESP in
delivering an all day course on Demand Response. ill is an outdoor advocate
participating in a number of conservation and habitat restoration organizations.
Residing in Nashville with his wife Debra, they spend many weekends in the field
with their French Brittany pups Kel and River.
Chris
King
Global Chief Regulatory Officer, Smart
Grid Solutions
Siemens AG
Chris King is Global Chief Regulatory Officer, Smart Grid Solutions for Siemens AG. He is responsible
for policy-oriented and strategic activities, including market analysis and
product strategy, working with regulators and legislators worldwide. He helped
found eMeter Corporation, where he was Chief Strategy Officer, which Siemens
acquired in 2012. Mr. King’s 30 years of experience include being CEO of
Utility.com, an online electricity retailer; Vice President, Sales &
Marketing for CellNet Data Systems (now owned by Toshiba); and Director, Rate
Design for Pacific Gas & Electric Company. He is Chair of the Brussels-based
Smart Energy Demand Coalition, and on the Board of Directors of the Demand
Response and Smart Grid Coalition, the Association for Demand Response and Smart
Grid, and the U.S. Demand Response National Action Plan Coalition. He has 30
years of experience in smart meter policy and regulatory affairs, working for
electric utilities, competitive retailers, and technology companies. Mr. King,
who has testified before the U.S. Congress, holds master’s degrees in science
and business from Stanford University and a doctorate in law from Concord Law
School.
Barbara
Leary
Sr. Director, Marketing &
Communication
Florida Power & Light Company
Barbara Leary joined FPL in March 2008 as senior director, marketing and
communication, for Florida Power & Light Company. Over the past four years,
her assignments have included leading the teams that provide communication
support to FPL’s customer service, distribution and transmission business units;
interactive communication; marketing FPL’s demand-side management programs and
billing and payment options; and providing speechwriting and other communication
support to the executive leadership of NextEra Energy Inc. and FPL. In addition
she served as the deputy to the vice president of marketing and communication,
acting as his delegate in his absence. In 2009, Barbara assumed additional
responsibility for the customer education program for FPL’s $800 million Energy
Smart Florida smart grid initiative, which includes the deployment of 4.5
million smart meters and extensive upgrades to FPL’s transmission and
distribution systems. In April 2012 she relocated from Juno Beach, Florida, back
to her “home town” of Washington, D.C., and continues to lead the utility’s
smart grid and smart meter communication efforts. This includes serving on the
team responsible for meeting FPL’s commitments under a $200 million Smart Grid
Investment Grant from the U.S. Department of Energy. In addition, she represents
FPL on the J.D. Powers Smart Energy Advisory Board. Prior to joining FPL,
Barbara was director of external communication for Lexmark International, a
printer manufacturer; director of internal communication for BASF Corporation,
the North American subsidiary of the world’s largest chemical company, and vice
president of corporate communication for CDI Corporation, an engineering and IT
consulting firm. Before that, she was a vice president at Ketchum, a global PR
agency, where she specialized in the manufacturing and technology sectors.
Naomi
Manley-Casimir
Director
Accenture
Innovation Centre for Utilities
Naomi Manley-Casimir is the
Director of the global Innovation Centre for Utilities for Accenture. In this
role, Naomi is responsible for research and development in end-consumer
preferences for energy-related products and services, supporting and enabling
her Accenture colleagues working with utility retail and customer operations and
managing IT asset development. Previously, Naomi was responsible for client
relations at one of Accenture’s largest utility business process and application
outsourcing engagements. She led the development and deployment of the Service
Performance Dashboard, a comprehensive dashboard with over 200 business metrics
that provides an executive to operational overview of the performance of the
meter-to-cash business processes. Naomi also led the development and deployment
of quarterly leadership meetings to improve leadership morale, strategic
alignment, facilitate communications and engagement within Customer Care
operations. In her years of consulting, Naomi’s experience focused primarily in
generation, related to power plant and dispatch optimization, project management
of an energy risk management application and management of a large-scale program
comprised of seven concurrent projects. She is currently the Research Committee
Chair for Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative. Naomi works with SGCC Research
Committee to establish research plan, facilitate SGCC Research projects with
third-party vendors, SGCC staff and SGCC research committee members. In her
spare time, Naomi enjoys reading and spending time outdoors with her husband and
two children.
Lisa
Magnuson
Senior Director, Marketing and
Global Communications
Silver Spring Networks
Lisa brings over 20 years of technology marketing experience to Silver Spring
Networks. Lisa is responsible for Silver Spring’s corporate marketing and
communications and consumer education programs. Lisa has created industry
leading consumer education programs for Silver Spring and the utility industry.
She has built an acclaimed smart grid curriculum and nurtured a network of 3rd
party smart grid advocates. She has served on the organizing committee of
GridWeek and Smart Energy International and is the current co-chair of the Smart
Grid Consumer Collaborative’s marketing and PR committee. Prior to Silver
Spring, Lisa worked with some of the top brands in the industry, helping to
build innovative marketing communication platforms for such companies as Apple,
NeXT, Ascend and Cisco, to name a few. Lisa holds a BA from Duke University. She
and her family are avid supporters of reduce, reuse, recycle in their
daily lives.
John D.
McDonald
P.E., Director, Technical Strategy
and Policy Development
GE Digital
John D. McDonald, P.E., is Director, Technical Strategy and Policy Development for GE
Energy’s Digital Energy business. John has 38 years of experience in the
electric utility transmission and distribution industry. John received his
B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. (Power Engineering) degrees from Purdue University, and an
M.B.A. (Finance) degree from the University of California-Berkeley. John is a
Fellow of IEEE, and was awarded the IEEE Millennium Medal in 2000, the IEEE
Power & Energy Society (PES) Excellence in Power Distribution Engineering
Award in 2002, and the IEEE PES Substations Committee Distinguished Service
Award in 2003. John is Past President of the IEEE PES, a charter member of the
IEEE Brand Ambassadors Program, a member of the IEEE Medal of Honor Committee, a
member of the IEEE PES Region 3 Scholarship Committee, the VP for Technical
Activities for the US National Committee (USNC) of CIGRE, the Past Chair of the
IEEE PES Substations Committee, and Chair of the Smart Grid Consumer
Collaborative (SGCC) Board. John was the IEEE Division VII Director in
2008-2009. John was on the Board of Governors of the IEEE-SA (Standards
Association) in 2010-2011, focusing on long term IEEE Smart Grid standards
strategy. John was elected to Chair the NIST Smart Grid Interoperability Panel
(SGIP) Governing Board for 2010-2012. John is a member of the Advisory Committee
for the annual DistribuTECH Conference, and received the 2009 Outstanding
Electrical and Computer Engineer Award from Purdue University. John teaches a
SCADA/EMS/DMS course at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a Smart Grid course
for GE, and substation automation, distribution SCADA and communications courses
for various IEEE PES local chapters as an IEEE PES Distinguished Lecturer. John
has published forty papers and articles in the areas of SCADA, SCADA/EMS,
SCADA/DMS and communications, and has co-authored three books.
Ted
M. Reguly
Director Customer Programs and
Assistance
San Diego Gas and Electric
Ted M. Reguly is the Director of Customer Programs and Assistance at San Diego Gas and
Electric (SDG&E). He is responsible for overseeing the development,
implementation and integration of comprehensive customer product and service
Energy Efficiency, Demand Response and Assistance offerings. Reguly has been
with SDG&E since 1981, holding various positions throughout Electric
Generation, Electric and Gas Distribution, Supply Management, and Gas and
Electric Customer Service supervision. He is a registered California Mechanical
Engineer and received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from California State
University, Long Beach, and an MBA from San Diego State University. He is a CEE,
Utilimetrics, and UCLA Smart Grid Leadership Council Board Member, an active
member of UtilityAMI, OpenAMI, Global Intelligent Utility Network Coalition
(GIUNC), and the ZigBee Alliance.
Geoffrey
G. Revelle
Partner
Stoel
Rives LLP
Geoff is a partner in the firm’s Seattle office. He
focuses his practice on assisting companies on a broad range of issues,
including mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt financing, general corporate
work, licensing and distribution arrangements, senior executive employment
arrangements and business disputes. Geoff is a member of the firm’s Smart Energy
Initiative, China Initiative and CleanTech Initiative. Geoff is on the Board of
Directors and is North America Co-Vice Chair of TerraLex, an international
association of more than 150 leading law firms around the world. Geoff assists
clients with their international needs through the use of this network and also
assists TerraLex firms’ clients with their needs in the United States. He is
also the former Executive Vice President of Operations and General Counsel of
Attachmate Corporation. His responsibilities at Attachmate included oversight of
all areas of operations worldwide, including finance, IT, manufacturing and
distribution, legal and human resources. Geoff combines his business and legal
experience to provide a broad range of counseling to the firm’s clients. Deputy
Prosecuting Attorney for King County, 1972-1975; founder and shareholder of
Revelle & Hawkins, P.S., 1978-1993. Geoff received his B.A. in 1969 from
Princeton University, magna cum laude, and his law degree from the
University of Washington School of Law, J.D., 1972 Order of the Coif.
Ted D.
Thomas
Director, Smart Grid Emerging
Technologies
Duke Energy
As a director in Duke
Energy’s Customer Operations organization, Ted Thomas leads the grid
modification emerging technologies team responsible for the new technology to
modernize the company’s power delivery system and customer interfaces. Ted began
his career with the company in 1986 when he joined Duke Power. He has led a
variety of sales and technical teams which included forging into new markets.
Most recently, Ted served as director of distributed energy resources for Duke
Energy, where he was responsible for leading the North Carolina Solar
Photovoltaic (PV) Distributed Generation program. He and his team provided
comprehensive leadership to the program, including contract negotiations,
followed by designing, building, operating and maintaining roof- and
ground-mounted PV panels on properties leased from existing Duke Energy
customers. The 10-megawatt program is now among the nation’s largest distributed
generation demonstrations.Ted holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree
from Montreat College in North Carolina. Duke Energy, the largest electric power
company in the United States, supplies and delivers electricity to approximately
7 million customers in the Southeast and Midwest. The company also distributes
natural gas in Ohio and Kentucky. Its commercial power and international
businesses operate diverse power generation assets in North America and Latin
America, including a growing renewable energy portfolio. Headquartered in
Charlotte, N.C., Duke Energy is a Fortune 250 company traded on the New York
Stock Exchange under the symbol DUK.
Bud
“Arthur” Vos
Chief Operating
Officer
Simple Energy
Prior to joining Simple
Energy, Bud was Senior Vice President of Utility Sales and chief technology
officer at Comverge, where he oversaw the technology architecture for the
company while working with their utility client base to identify and deliver
high value projects using smart grid technology. Bud also worked at Comverge as
the SVP of Product Strategy and VP of Marketing, Products and Alliances. Before
Comverge, Bud was the Founder and VP of Engineering at Sixth Dimension, a
provider of Internet-based control systems for demand response and distributed
generation systems which was acquired by Comverge in 2003. Bud has a graduate
degree in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University.
Christine
Wright
Senior Policy
Analyst
Public Utility Commission of Texas
Christine Wright joined the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) in March
2005. Currently she is a senior market policy analyst in the Infrastructure
& Reliability Division. Ms. Wright managed the staff team responsible for
writing the advanced metering rulemaking which was adopted in May 2007. She led
the settlement discussions among interveners in the four smart meter deployment
and cost-recovery requests (Oncor Electric Delivery, AEP companies, CenterPoint
Energy and Texas New Mexico Power), and is the lead staff person in Project No.
34610, Implementation Proceeding Related to Advanced Metering. In addition to
smart grid implementation, she has worked on issues related to wholesale and
retail market design, demand response, provider of last resort, prepaid service,
electricity theft, meter tampering and critical care customer designation. Prior
to Ms. Wright’s employment with the PUCT, she worked for Energy Strategies,
LLC., where she supported clients’ energy market activities throughout the West,
including several competitive bid processes for large users to acquire their
natural gas and power requirements. Ms. Wright consulted on energy procurement,
contract negotiation, and demand-side management issues. She also managed the
Utah Association of Energy Users (UAE), a trade association comprised of the
state’s largest energy users. She represented the Association at the Utah Public
Service Commission in various task forces, working groups and regulatory
proceedings, and at the Utah legislature.
Board Liaison:
George W.
Arnold
Director, Smart Grid and
Cyber-Physical Systems Program Office and National
Coordinator
National Institute of Standards and
Technology
George Arnold was appointed National Coordinator for
Smart Grid Interoperability at the National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST) in April 2009. He is responsible for leading the development
of standards underpinning the nation’s Smart Grid. In October 2011 he assumed an
additional responsibility as Director, Smart Grid and Cyber-Physical Systems
Program Office in the NIST Engineering Laboratory. Dr. Arnold joined NIST in
September 2006 as Deputy Director, Technology Services, after a 33-year career
in the telecommunications and information technology industry. Dr. Arnold served
as Chairman of the Board of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), a
private, non-profit organization that coordinates the U.S. voluntary
standardization and conformity assessment system, from 2003 to 2005. He served
as President of the IEEE Standards Association in 2007-2008 and was Vice
President-Policy for the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
during 2006-2009, where he is responsible for guiding ISO’s strategic plan. Dr.
Arnold previously served as a Vice-President at Lucent Technologies Bell
Laboratories where he directed the company’s global standards efforts. His
organization played a leading role in the development of international standards
for Intelligent Networks and IP-based Next Generation Networks. In previous
assignments at AT&T Bell Laboratories he had responsibilities in network
planning, systems engineering, and application of information technology to
automate operations and maintenance of the nationwide telecommunications
network.Dr. Arnold received a Doctor of Engineering Science degree in Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science from Columbia University in 1978. He is a
Fellow of the IEEE.
http://smartgridcc.org/about/board
The Smart Grid Collaborative Board has 18 directors who represent commercial,
utility, and advocacy organizations along with SGCC’s Executive Director and an
adviser. Beginning in 2012, the SGCC Board will have staggered terms, with
approximately six directors elected each year to a two-year term.
2012 directors and their affiliations are:
SA Anders
Director of Operations
Citizens’ Utility Board of Oregon
The Citizens’ Utility Board of Oregon and CUB Policy Center is a statewide consumer
advocacy non-profit that works on behalf of Oregon ratepayers and the public
interest in matters of utility, energy, and environmental policy. In her role,
SA manages the development of new projects, development, an annual policy
conference, and the day to day operations of the organization. She works with
partners throughout the Pacific Northwest on policy matters related to smart
grid, electric vehicle, demand response, energy efficiency, and more. SA
oversees the internship and research fellow program and CUB, and has been a
dedicated advocate for the public interest in Oregon since she joined CUB’s team
in 2009. She received her MA in Philosophy from the University of York in
England, and her BA from Berea College in Berea, Kentucky, and worked as an IT
professional before moving into the non-profit sector. SA also serves on the
Oregon League of Conservation Voters Multnomah County Steering Committee, and
volunteers her time to increasing K-12 education in energy, sustainability, and
the environment.
Zanku
Armenian
Director, Public
Affairs
Southern California Edison
Zanku Armenian is currently a senior executive in the Public Affairs department at
Southern California Edison, one of the nation’s largest electric utilities. He
also has served in senior management in the Corporate Communications department.
He currently leads issues management efforts on a variety of utility issues
including SCE’s smart meter and smart grid programs. He is a commissioner for
the Glendale Water & Power Commission, appointed by the Glendale City
Council. He is a Sunday columnist for the Los Angeles Times. Zanku has over 25
years of experience in issues management, crisis communications and technology
marketing communications, with specialized expertise in digital entertainment
and the impact of technology on the entertainment industry; airline industry
issues; and the electric utility/energy industry with a particular focus on
smart grid technology. Previously he worked in Washington, DC in politics,
devising and directing public affairs issue campaigns for major industries
including airlines, defense, technology, telecommunications, entertainment,
pharmaceutical, health care, tobacco and consumer goods. In addition, Zanku
worked in the technology industry in Silicon Valley and led his own corporate
communications consulting practice based in Los Angeles.
Randy
Berry
Vice
President
Power Systems Consultants
Randy Berry has over 20 years of experience in the design, delivery and support of advanced
technology solutions used by the electric industry for the reliable operation of
the grid, including smart grid systems. He is the Vice President of US
operations of PSC. Prior to joining PSC, Mr. Berry worked for AREVA where his
career started in software development and project engineering. During his
tenure with AREVA, he advanced through a number of positions including program
management, marketing director, managing director and vice president. Mr. Berry
also worked for The Boeing Company in Seattle and Singer Link in Maryland,
providing real time systems for the Department of Defense related to underwater
acoustic signal processing. Mr. Berry has also had the privilege of teaching
courses on Computer Operating Systems at the University of Washington. Mr. Berry
graduated Michigan Technological University with a Bachelor of Science degree in
Computer Science.
Laurence
C. Daniels
Assistant People’s Counsel
Office of the People’s Counsel – DC
Attorney Laurence Daniels has worked as Assistant People’s Counsel in
Washington, D.C. for the Office of the People’s Counsel since January 2000.
He represented consumers’ interest in the PowerCentsDC smart grid pilot program
in Washington, D.C. and is currently the lead attorney representing District of
Columbia consumers regarding all matters related to the full deployment of
advanced metering infrastructure. In 1997, Mr. Daniels received his law degree
from Howard University School of Law. He and his wife Gilda, a voting rights
attorney, reside in Mitchellville, Maryland with their two children Lauren and
William.
Vickie
Dorris
Global Solution Leader for Customer
Operations, Energy & Utilities
IBM
Vickie
Dorris brings over 25 years of working in the energy and utilities industry.
She is currently the IBM Global Solution leader for customer solutions for the
Energy & Utilities industry. She is responsible for developing an integrated
customer solutions offering which combines strategy, process, and technology to
help utility clients empower consumers and improve customer satisfaction through
access to information, products, and services that can reduce bills, increase
efficiency, and address their emerging energy needs. Previous to her current
role at IBM, she was Vice President of Sales Vertical markets at Gartner focused
on the Energy & Utilities industry where she doubled their research and
consulting business in the energy vertical. Her professional background
includes: IBM, Sales, Energy & Utilities, 15 years, Gartner, VP Vertical
Markets, 3 years, Lotus Development, National Sales Director, 10 years, and
Texaco, Sr. Business Analyst, 4 years. Vickie graduated from Mississippi State
University’s School of Business with a concentration in Management Information
Systems. In her spare time she enjoys reading, running and spending time with
her husband and three children. She also enjoys working with, Children’s
International Village, a youth exchange organization.
Brent
Dreher
SVP Utility
Sales
Comverge
Brent Dreher joined Comverge in
April 2012. He has more than 27 years of consulting and entrepreneurial
experience in the energy industry working with large regulated utilities,
electric cooperatives and municipal utilities. Prior to joining Comverge, Mr.
Dreher was a Senior Vice President with Five Point Partners, a specialized
provider of strategic, solution delivery and application management consulting
services to organizations within the energy and utility industry. Prior to that,
he was a founder and president of BE Consulting, where he led the formation of
BE’s utility industry practice, including the establishment of a Smart Grid
business. In addition, Mr. Dreher worked at Accenture for more than 11 years,
where he led projects at clients such as Progress Energy and Duke Energy in a
variety of engineering and operations areas in Generation, Transmission and
Distribution.
Patty
Durand
Executive
Director
Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative
Patty Durand is the Executive Director for the Smart Grid Consumer
Collaborative; a consumer focused non-profit aiming to promote the understanding
and benefits of modernized electrical systems among all stakeholders in the
United States. Patty’s prior experience includes working on smart grid research
at Georgia Institute of Technology where she helped prepare and submit smart
grid grant proposals to ARPA-E and DOE. Prior to Georgia Tech Patty was the
State Director for the Georgia Chapter of the Sierra Club, Georgia’s largest
grassroots environmental organization. Patty’s work there focused on programs
addressing climate change and promoting sustainable energy policy. Patty has an
IT background and worked on B2B projects with Hewlett Packard and Compaq
Computers and currently serves on the board of the Smart Energy Society for the
Technology Association of Georgia. Patty has an MBA from the College of William
and Mary in Williamsburg Virginia and a B.S. in Business from Virginia
Commonwealth University in Richmond Virginia.
William
G. “Bill” Jackson Jr.
Senior Manager Demand
Response
Tennessee Valley Authority
William G.
“Bill” Jackson Jr. is currently a Senior Manager Demand Response at the
Tennessee Valley Authority with responsibility to manage the Demand Response
section and products as well as Senior Advisor to the Vice President for
Emerging Technologies across all markets. Bill has over thirty seven years of
experience in the utility industry spanning assignments from Cleveland, Ohio
(Centerior Energy – now FirstEnergy) to Las Vegas, Nevada (Nevada Power – now NV
Energy) to Long Island, New York (Long Island Power Authority) to Portland,
Oregon (Paragon Consulting Services) to now Nashville, Tennessee. His areas of
expertise cross energy efficiency, demand response, program development and
management and strategic planning. Bill has experience in the IOU, public power
and consulting industries and understands the challenges existing in meeting
unique customer, corporate and political needs. He has an MBA from Lake Erie
College in Ohio as well as Management Certificates from the Darden School
University of Virginia and University of Michigan. He was the lead instructor
for APPA in the Energy Efficiency Management Certificate Program and for AESP in
delivering an all day course on Demand Response. ill is an outdoor advocate
participating in a number of conservation and habitat restoration organizations.
Residing in Nashville with his wife Debra, they spend many weekends in the field
with their French Brittany pups Kel and River.
Chris
King
Global Chief Regulatory Officer, Smart
Grid Solutions
Siemens AG
Chris King is Global Chief Regulatory Officer, Smart Grid Solutions for Siemens AG. He is responsible
for policy-oriented and strategic activities, including market analysis and
product strategy, working with regulators and legislators worldwide. He helped
found eMeter Corporation, where he was Chief Strategy Officer, which Siemens
acquired in 2012. Mr. King’s 30 years of experience include being CEO of
Utility.com, an online electricity retailer; Vice President, Sales &
Marketing for CellNet Data Systems (now owned by Toshiba); and Director, Rate
Design for Pacific Gas & Electric Company. He is Chair of the Brussels-based
Smart Energy Demand Coalition, and on the Board of Directors of the Demand
Response and Smart Grid Coalition, the Association for Demand Response and Smart
Grid, and the U.S. Demand Response National Action Plan Coalition. He has 30
years of experience in smart meter policy and regulatory affairs, working for
electric utilities, competitive retailers, and technology companies. Mr. King,
who has testified before the U.S. Congress, holds master’s degrees in science
and business from Stanford University and a doctorate in law from Concord Law
School.
Barbara
Leary
Sr. Director, Marketing &
Communication
Florida Power & Light Company
Barbara Leary joined FPL in March 2008 as senior director, marketing and
communication, for Florida Power & Light Company. Over the past four years,
her assignments have included leading the teams that provide communication
support to FPL’s customer service, distribution and transmission business units;
interactive communication; marketing FPL’s demand-side management programs and
billing and payment options; and providing speechwriting and other communication
support to the executive leadership of NextEra Energy Inc. and FPL. In addition
she served as the deputy to the vice president of marketing and communication,
acting as his delegate in his absence. In 2009, Barbara assumed additional
responsibility for the customer education program for FPL’s $800 million Energy
Smart Florida smart grid initiative, which includes the deployment of 4.5
million smart meters and extensive upgrades to FPL’s transmission and
distribution systems. In April 2012 she relocated from Juno Beach, Florida, back
to her “home town” of Washington, D.C., and continues to lead the utility’s
smart grid and smart meter communication efforts. This includes serving on the
team responsible for meeting FPL’s commitments under a $200 million Smart Grid
Investment Grant from the U.S. Department of Energy. In addition, she represents
FPL on the J.D. Powers Smart Energy Advisory Board. Prior to joining FPL,
Barbara was director of external communication for Lexmark International, a
printer manufacturer; director of internal communication for BASF Corporation,
the North American subsidiary of the world’s largest chemical company, and vice
president of corporate communication for CDI Corporation, an engineering and IT
consulting firm. Before that, she was a vice president at Ketchum, a global PR
agency, where she specialized in the manufacturing and technology sectors.
Naomi
Manley-Casimir
Director
Accenture
Innovation Centre for Utilities
Naomi Manley-Casimir is the
Director of the global Innovation Centre for Utilities for Accenture. In this
role, Naomi is responsible for research and development in end-consumer
preferences for energy-related products and services, supporting and enabling
her Accenture colleagues working with utility retail and customer operations and
managing IT asset development. Previously, Naomi was responsible for client
relations at one of Accenture’s largest utility business process and application
outsourcing engagements. She led the development and deployment of the Service
Performance Dashboard, a comprehensive dashboard with over 200 business metrics
that provides an executive to operational overview of the performance of the
meter-to-cash business processes. Naomi also led the development and deployment
of quarterly leadership meetings to improve leadership morale, strategic
alignment, facilitate communications and engagement within Customer Care
operations. In her years of consulting, Naomi’s experience focused primarily in
generation, related to power plant and dispatch optimization, project management
of an energy risk management application and management of a large-scale program
comprised of seven concurrent projects. She is currently the Research Committee
Chair for Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative. Naomi works with SGCC Research
Committee to establish research plan, facilitate SGCC Research projects with
third-party vendors, SGCC staff and SGCC research committee members. In her
spare time, Naomi enjoys reading and spending time outdoors with her husband and
two children.
Lisa
Magnuson
Senior Director, Marketing and
Global Communications
Silver Spring Networks
Lisa brings over 20 years of technology marketing experience to Silver Spring
Networks. Lisa is responsible for Silver Spring’s corporate marketing and
communications and consumer education programs. Lisa has created industry
leading consumer education programs for Silver Spring and the utility industry.
She has built an acclaimed smart grid curriculum and nurtured a network of 3rd
party smart grid advocates. She has served on the organizing committee of
GridWeek and Smart Energy International and is the current co-chair of the Smart
Grid Consumer Collaborative’s marketing and PR committee. Prior to Silver
Spring, Lisa worked with some of the top brands in the industry, helping to
build innovative marketing communication platforms for such companies as Apple,
NeXT, Ascend and Cisco, to name a few. Lisa holds a BA from Duke University. She
and her family are avid supporters of reduce, reuse, recycle in their
daily lives.
John D.
McDonald
P.E., Director, Technical Strategy
and Policy Development
GE Digital
John D. McDonald, P.E., is Director, Technical Strategy and Policy Development for GE
Energy’s Digital Energy business. John has 38 years of experience in the
electric utility transmission and distribution industry. John received his
B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. (Power Engineering) degrees from Purdue University, and an
M.B.A. (Finance) degree from the University of California-Berkeley. John is a
Fellow of IEEE, and was awarded the IEEE Millennium Medal in 2000, the IEEE
Power & Energy Society (PES) Excellence in Power Distribution Engineering
Award in 2002, and the IEEE PES Substations Committee Distinguished Service
Award in 2003. John is Past President of the IEEE PES, a charter member of the
IEEE Brand Ambassadors Program, a member of the IEEE Medal of Honor Committee, a
member of the IEEE PES Region 3 Scholarship Committee, the VP for Technical
Activities for the US National Committee (USNC) of CIGRE, the Past Chair of the
IEEE PES Substations Committee, and Chair of the Smart Grid Consumer
Collaborative (SGCC) Board. John was the IEEE Division VII Director in
2008-2009. John was on the Board of Governors of the IEEE-SA (Standards
Association) in 2010-2011, focusing on long term IEEE Smart Grid standards
strategy. John was elected to Chair the NIST Smart Grid Interoperability Panel
(SGIP) Governing Board for 2010-2012. John is a member of the Advisory Committee
for the annual DistribuTECH Conference, and received the 2009 Outstanding
Electrical and Computer Engineer Award from Purdue University. John teaches a
SCADA/EMS/DMS course at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a Smart Grid course
for GE, and substation automation, distribution SCADA and communications courses
for various IEEE PES local chapters as an IEEE PES Distinguished Lecturer. John
has published forty papers and articles in the areas of SCADA, SCADA/EMS,
SCADA/DMS and communications, and has co-authored three books.
Ted
M. Reguly
Director Customer Programs and
Assistance
San Diego Gas and Electric
Ted M. Reguly is the Director of Customer Programs and Assistance at San Diego Gas and
Electric (SDG&E). He is responsible for overseeing the development,
implementation and integration of comprehensive customer product and service
Energy Efficiency, Demand Response and Assistance offerings. Reguly has been
with SDG&E since 1981, holding various positions throughout Electric
Generation, Electric and Gas Distribution, Supply Management, and Gas and
Electric Customer Service supervision. He is a registered California Mechanical
Engineer and received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from California State
University, Long Beach, and an MBA from San Diego State University. He is a CEE,
Utilimetrics, and UCLA Smart Grid Leadership Council Board Member, an active
member of UtilityAMI, OpenAMI, Global Intelligent Utility Network Coalition
(GIUNC), and the ZigBee Alliance.
Geoffrey
G. Revelle
Partner
Stoel
Rives LLP
Geoff is a partner in the firm’s Seattle office. He
focuses his practice on assisting companies on a broad range of issues,
including mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt financing, general corporate
work, licensing and distribution arrangements, senior executive employment
arrangements and business disputes. Geoff is a member of the firm’s Smart Energy
Initiative, China Initiative and CleanTech Initiative. Geoff is on the Board of
Directors and is North America Co-Vice Chair of TerraLex, an international
association of more than 150 leading law firms around the world. Geoff assists
clients with their international needs through the use of this network and also
assists TerraLex firms’ clients with their needs in the United States. He is
also the former Executive Vice President of Operations and General Counsel of
Attachmate Corporation. His responsibilities at Attachmate included oversight of
all areas of operations worldwide, including finance, IT, manufacturing and
distribution, legal and human resources. Geoff combines his business and legal
experience to provide a broad range of counseling to the firm’s clients. Deputy
Prosecuting Attorney for King County, 1972-1975; founder and shareholder of
Revelle & Hawkins, P.S., 1978-1993. Geoff received his B.A. in 1969 from
Princeton University, magna cum laude, and his law degree from the
University of Washington School of Law, J.D., 1972 Order of the Coif.
Ted D.
Thomas
Director, Smart Grid Emerging
Technologies
Duke Energy
As a director in Duke
Energy’s Customer Operations organization, Ted Thomas leads the grid
modification emerging technologies team responsible for the new technology to
modernize the company’s power delivery system and customer interfaces. Ted began
his career with the company in 1986 when he joined Duke Power. He has led a
variety of sales and technical teams which included forging into new markets.
Most recently, Ted served as director of distributed energy resources for Duke
Energy, where he was responsible for leading the North Carolina Solar
Photovoltaic (PV) Distributed Generation program. He and his team provided
comprehensive leadership to the program, including contract negotiations,
followed by designing, building, operating and maintaining roof- and
ground-mounted PV panels on properties leased from existing Duke Energy
customers. The 10-megawatt program is now among the nation’s largest distributed
generation demonstrations.Ted holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree
from Montreat College in North Carolina. Duke Energy, the largest electric power
company in the United States, supplies and delivers electricity to approximately
7 million customers in the Southeast and Midwest. The company also distributes
natural gas in Ohio and Kentucky. Its commercial power and international
businesses operate diverse power generation assets in North America and Latin
America, including a growing renewable energy portfolio. Headquartered in
Charlotte, N.C., Duke Energy is a Fortune 250 company traded on the New York
Stock Exchange under the symbol DUK.
Bud
“Arthur” Vos
Chief Operating
Officer
Simple Energy
Prior to joining Simple
Energy, Bud was Senior Vice President of Utility Sales and chief technology
officer at Comverge, where he oversaw the technology architecture for the
company while working with their utility client base to identify and deliver
high value projects using smart grid technology. Bud also worked at Comverge as
the SVP of Product Strategy and VP of Marketing, Products and Alliances. Before
Comverge, Bud was the Founder and VP of Engineering at Sixth Dimension, a
provider of Internet-based control systems for demand response and distributed
generation systems which was acquired by Comverge in 2003. Bud has a graduate
degree in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University.
Christine
Wright
Senior Policy
Analyst
Public Utility Commission of Texas
Christine Wright joined the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) in March
2005. Currently she is a senior market policy analyst in the Infrastructure
& Reliability Division. Ms. Wright managed the staff team responsible for
writing the advanced metering rulemaking which was adopted in May 2007. She led
the settlement discussions among interveners in the four smart meter deployment
and cost-recovery requests (Oncor Electric Delivery, AEP companies, CenterPoint
Energy and Texas New Mexico Power), and is the lead staff person in Project No.
34610, Implementation Proceeding Related to Advanced Metering. In addition to
smart grid implementation, she has worked on issues related to wholesale and
retail market design, demand response, provider of last resort, prepaid service,
electricity theft, meter tampering and critical care customer designation. Prior
to Ms. Wright’s employment with the PUCT, she worked for Energy Strategies,
LLC., where she supported clients’ energy market activities throughout the West,
including several competitive bid processes for large users to acquire their
natural gas and power requirements. Ms. Wright consulted on energy procurement,
contract negotiation, and demand-side management issues. She also managed the
Utah Association of Energy Users (UAE), a trade association comprised of the
state’s largest energy users. She represented the Association at the Utah Public
Service Commission in various task forces, working groups and regulatory
proceedings, and at the Utah legislature.
Board Liaison:
George W.
Arnold
Director, Smart Grid and
Cyber-Physical Systems Program Office and National
Coordinator
National Institute of Standards and
Technology
George Arnold was appointed National Coordinator for
Smart Grid Interoperability at the National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST) in April 2009. He is responsible for leading the development
of standards underpinning the nation’s Smart Grid. In October 2011 he assumed an
additional responsibility as Director, Smart Grid and Cyber-Physical Systems
Program Office in the NIST Engineering Laboratory. Dr. Arnold joined NIST in
September 2006 as Deputy Director, Technology Services, after a 33-year career
in the telecommunications and information technology industry. Dr. Arnold served
as Chairman of the Board of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), a
private, non-profit organization that coordinates the U.S. voluntary
standardization and conformity assessment system, from 2003 to 2005. He served
as President of the IEEE Standards Association in 2007-2008 and was Vice
President-Policy for the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
during 2006-2009, where he is responsible for guiding ISO’s strategic plan. Dr.
Arnold previously served as a Vice-President at Lucent Technologies Bell
Laboratories where he directed the company’s global standards efforts. His
organization played a leading role in the development of international standards
for Intelligent Networks and IP-based Next Generation Networks. In previous
assignments at AT&T Bell Laboratories he had responsibilities in network
planning, systems engineering, and application of information technology to
automate operations and maintenance of the nationwide telecommunications
network.Dr. Arnold received a Doctor of Engineering Science degree in Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science from Columbia University in 1978. He is a
Fellow of the IEEE.
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