Andres
Carvallo, CIO
Austin Energy (Austin,
Texas)
Andres
Carvallo is responsible for
the technology vision,
planning, development and
operations across the
enterprise. Since February
2003, he has been driving a
wireless and SOA
transformation to deliver a
fully-integrated and
self-healing enterprise. The
current direction for the
company is to deliver the
first Smart Grid in the
United States by 2009.
Carvallo is a requested
speaker on CleanTech, Smart
Grid, SOA, wireless and
running IT as a business. He
is co-author of Information
Technology Leadership and CTO Best Practices
Collection. And, he is an
honoree of many IT and CIO
awards.
Carvallo has more than 23
years of experience and
great knowledge of the
energy, software, computer
and wireless industries.
He received a Bachelor of
Science degree in mechanical
engineering from the
University of Kansas and has
completed executive
management programs at the
University of Idaho,
Stanford University and The
Wharton School of the
University of Pennsylvania.
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Robert Mack,
Deputy Director of Public
Affairs
Tacoma Public Utilities
(Tacoma, Wash.)
Robert Mack
has served in his current post
since 2007. Prior to that, he
served as president of Smith Alling Lane, a Tacoma law
firm, where he practiced in
environmental and natural
resources law and lobbied
for a number of
municipalities (including
Tacoma) in the Washington
State Legislature.
He also has held positions
in Washington State
government, including legal
counsel to the governor and
is a graduate of Harvard
College (1972) and Harvard
law School (1975).
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Kiah Harris,
P.E. / Project Manager &
Principal in the Business
and Technology Services
Division
Burns & McDonnell
(Kansas City, Mo.)
Kiah Harris
holds bachelor’s and
master’s degrees in
electrical engineering. He
has more than 33 years of
experience in the planning,
design and construction of
electrical generating
plants, transmission and
substation facilities and
system dispatch centers.
Since 1988, Harris has been a
project manager and
principal in the Business
and Technology Services
Division of Burns &
McDonnell. This group is
responsible for utility
planning, rate studies, load
forecasting, transmission
planning and generation
expansion studies. In his
consulting practice, Harris
has prepared numerous
economic and feasibility
studies for projects
throughout the world.
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Chris Stough,
President
EcoTech Energy Solutions
(Estes Park, Colo.)
Chris Stough is the
cofounder of EcoTech Energy
Solutions, LLC. He has an
engineering background and
maintains certifications in
solar thermal, solar
photovoltaic and wind
products.
Stough works closely with
staff of the Colorado
Governor's Energy Office,
Nebraska legislators and the
National Renewable Energy
Laboratory. He also has ties to
an academic organization at Colorado State
University, which is
responsible for new clean
energy technologies. He
serves on the boards of
several national and
international renewable
energy companies and
organizations.
In his current position,
Stough also is involved in
discussions that support
clean energy initiatives
around the globe. He
recently returned from a
trip to Asia where he
participated in discussions
that involve a multinational
organization seeking to
provide renewable energy
solutions to Third World
countries.
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Jerry Meyer,
Fleet Account Executive
General Motors (Irving,
Texas)
Jerry Meyer
has been employed by General
Motors (GM) for more than 30
years. He is the government
fleet sales and alternative
fuels manager for the South
Central region. His area
includes the states of
Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana,
Mississippi, Arizona,
Missouri, Kansas and
Nebraska.
He has held
various positions with
General Motors from district
sales, distribution center
and
fleet sales, and he built
the used car database for
GM. Jerry has worked with
approximately one-third of
all GM dealerships, all
major leasing companies and
all major auction companies
in both the United States
and Canada. He has worked
with NAFA, NAAA and Clean
Cities groups for many
years.
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H. Christine
Richards, Editor-in-Chief
Intelligent
Utility, Energy Central
Intelligent Utility magazine
covers the utility
industry’s transformation to
information-enabled energy
through building smarter
grids and more intelligent
utilities. The magazine
launched in January 2009 and
reaches approximately 25,000
utility industry personnel.
Prior to her role as
editor-in-chief, Richards
served as lead analyst for
the Intelligent Grid
Practice at IDC Energy
Insights. Her clients
included some of the
largest, investor-owned
utilities and public power
producers in North America,
along with the largest IT
vendors in the world.
Richards
holds a master's degree from
Cornell University and
graduated summa cum laude
from Colorado State
University.
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Mark Bruss,
Area Vice President - Sales
Itron (St. Louis, Mo.)
Mark Bruss
started his utility-focused
career with Schlumberger's
Electricity Metering
Division in 1996 and then
moved to Itron when it
purchased this division in
2004.
“Itron has
been a long-term partner to
LES for metering and data
collection systems. Itron's
OpenWay Advanced Metering
Infrastructure can provide
the foundation for the Smart
Grid and the tools to
further connect LES with our
customers.”
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Henry Bailey,
Vice President of Service
Industries
SAP America
(Newtown Square, Penn.)
Henry Bailey
has more than 20 years
tenure in the Service
Industry Sector at SAP, the
world’s leading provider of
business software solutions,
and is responsible for
managing the industry
principals and developing
solutions specific to
utilities, telecom, media,
professional services,
construction, transportation
and health care at SAP.
Bailey’s achievements
include designing and
patenting software products
for regulatory compliance,
published author on business
strategies and extensive
background in customer
relationship management and
enterprise asset management
best practices within the
Service Industry Sector.
Bailey holds
a Bachelor of Science degree
in computer information
science and robotics.
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More than 150
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spoke about their
experiences implementing
Smart Grid technology.