Speakers - UNC Institute for the Environment

Keynotes and Featured

Robert Blue
Chair, President and CEO
Dominion Energy

Terry Boston
Consultant, Retired CEO of PJM
Grid Protection Alliance

Lachlan Carey
Senior Associate, US Program
RMI

Elizabeth Curmi
Director, Global Thematic Analyst
Citi

Jeff Guldner
Chairman of the Board, President and CEO
Pinnacle West Capital Corporation, Arizona Public Service

Arshad Mansoor
President and CEO
Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)

Henry McKoy
Director, Office of State and Community Energy Programs (SCEP)
United States Department of Energy

Markus Wilhelm
Co-Founder & CEO
Strata Clean Energy

Panelists

Stan Ahalt
Dean
UNC School of Data Science and Society

Elisa Alonso
Assistant Chief for the Minerals Intelligence Research Section
U.S. Geological Survey

Stephen Arbogast
Professor of the Practice, Director Energy Center
Kenan-Flagler Business School

Meredith Bandy
Vice President, Investor Relations & Sustainability
Albemarle Corporation

Kevin Bangston
CEO
Thomas Built Buses

Brian Bartholomew
Battery Trading and Market Analysis
REV Renewables

Brian Bednar
President and Founder
Birdseye Renewable Energy

Ryan Bethencourt
CEO
Wild Earth

Aaron Brickman
Senior Principal, U.S. Program
Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI)

Olivia Campbell Andersen
Policy & Market Development Manager
ABB E-mobililty

Bill Capp
Founder
Grid Storage Consulting

Chris Castro
Chief of Staff, Office of State and Community Energy Programs
U.S. Department of Energy

Bryan Cheong
Director of Programs and Strategy
The Global America Business Institute (GABI)

Sung-Jin (“Jin”) Cho
Founder and CEO
Soelect., Inc

Christopher Chung
CEO
EDPNC

William M. Clayton
CEO and Co-founder
Sky Harvest

Chance Cobb
Co-founder and COO
blip energy

Marie Coffin
VP, Science and Modeling
CIBO

Marshall Conrad
Director of Government Relations
Strata Clean Energy

Trish Cozart
Director
NREL’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center

Jay Dauenhauer
Host
Energy Cast Podcast

Alsey Davidson
Associate, Climate Infrastructure Investment Team
Blackrock

Gabe de Paz
Account Manager, SE Gov’t Fleets
Ford Pro Charging

Josh Dorfman
Co-Founder & CEO
Plantd

Anna Douglas
Co-founder and CEO
SkyNano Technologies

Guillermo Espiga
VP & Head of Business Development
Nth Cycle

Andrew Fishbein
Senior Climate Policy Manager
Climeworks

Leif Fixen
North America Agriculture Strategy Manager
The Nature Conservancy

Michael Flynn
Partner and co-founder
Unasys

Thomas Foust
Center Director II-Technical
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Sidney Fowler
Senior Associate
Pillsbury

Mike Fox
President
Piedmont Triad Partnership

Sam Gattis
Senior Director, Target and Portfolio Strategy
Oerthbio

RD Gauss
Principal
Global Infrastructure Partners

Diana Godlevskaya
Federal Affairs Specialist
American Clean Power Association

Pete Gould
Senior Vice President
Boundary Stone Partners

Liz Guinessey
Manager, Food and Blue Carbon Innovation
Verra

Darsh Gupta
Head of Commercialization
Sustaera

Brandon Hass
Senior Director, Sustainability and Climate Indices
S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI)

Ruoying “Roy” He
Founder and President
Fathom Science

Jake Higdon
U.S. Manufacturing Advisor, Office of the Under Secretary for Science and Innovation
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

Jennifer Howard
Vice President, Blue Carbon Program
Conservation International

Mark Huang
Co-Founder and Managing Director
SeaAhead

Nick Irvin
Director of R&D, Strategy, Advanced Nuclear, and Crosscutting Technology
Southern Company

Tina Jeffress
Senior Manager, Sustainability & Energy
Panasonic Corporation, North America

Bob Keefe
Executive Director
E2

Katharine Kollins
President
Southeastern Wind Coalition

Amy Kozel
R&D Engineer
NuScale

Pete Krull
Founder, CEO, Director of Investments
Earth Equity Advisors

Tony Lathrop
Board Member, Chair of the Finance Committee
NC Board of Transportation

Anthony Leo
Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer
FuelCell Energy

Karen LeVert
CEO
Ag TechInventures

Chris Levesque
President and CEO
TerraPower

Eric Lipton
Domestic Correspondent, Washington Bureau
The New York Times

Gloria Liu Semon
Senior, Climate Change and Sustainability Services
Ernst & Young LLP

Nick Martin
COO & Co-Founder
Carbon Reform

Kevin McLaughlin
Vice President, Government Affairs and External Relations
Duke Energy

Steven McManus
Innovation Advisor
RTI International, Innovation Advisors Group

Chris Mesrobian
Senior Director of Business Development
Monolith Corporation

Alex Miller
Founder and Principal
Alex Miller Government Affairs

Jeff Mittelstadt
Executive Director
Ackerman Center for Excellence in Sustainability (ACES)

Stephen Morel
Chief Investment Officer
Montgomery County Green Bank

Arjun Nair
Manager - Vehicle Programs & Infrastructure Consulting - eMobility
Thomas Built Buses, Daimler Trucks NA

Frank Nelms
Director, Energy Practice
ScottMadden

David Nenon
EV Supply Chain Strategy Manager
Ford Motor Company

Megan O’Connor
Co-founder and CEO
Nth Cycle

Erica Ocampo
Chief Sustainability Officer
The Metals Company

Dalia Patino-Echeverri
Gendell Associate Professor of Energy Systems and Public Policy
Duke University

Michael Piehler
Director, UNC Institute for the Environment and Chief Sustainability Officer
UNC Chapel Hill

David Pope
Senior Manager, Pre-Sales US Energy
SAS

Gary Rackliffe
VP Market Development and Innovation
Hitachi Energy

Jason Rowell
Vice President, New Energy Solutions Leader
Black & Veatch

John Salmeron
Managing Director
S Research Partners, LLC

Luke Sawitsky
Senior Investment Associate
SeaAhead

Chad Schuchmann
President
Daramic, LLC

Yan Song
Professor, Director of Program on Chinese Cities
UNC- City and Regional Planning

Julia Souder
Executive Director
Long Duration Energy Storage Council

Don Stewart
Vice President of Manufacturing
Toyota Battery Manufacturing North Carolina (TBMNC)

Lucia Strader
Associate Professor
Climate Plant Innovation Network, Duke University

Allison Thomson
AgMission Scientific Program Director
Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR)

Jeff Warren
Research Director
North Carolina Policy Collaboratory

Jennifer Weiss
Senior Advisor for Climate Change Policy
NC Department of Transportation, Board of NC Clean Energy Fund

Deb Wojcik
Executive Director
Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster

David Wood
Director of Engineering
SkyNano Technologies

Mike Woodard
Senator, District 22
North Carolina Senate

Logan Yonavjak
Chief Sustainability Officer
International Farming