Solarplaza Summit Asset Management North America

Grayson Maurer

Head of Renewable Energy Services North America

Lisa Yops

Technical Asset Manager

Stephanie Graham

Director, Client Success

Paul Wormser

Vice President, Technology

Mark Z. Jacobson

Author, Educator, Co-Founder, Researcher

Jasmie Guan

Senior Specialist, Interconnection Policy

Lydia Li

Director of Investments

Britta von Oesen

Partner & Managing Director

Marquis Matthews

VP Strategic Initiatives & Partnerships

Rounak Kharait

Solar Chief Specialist

Rogér Balyon

Sr. Technical Program Manager Solar

Joseph Thom

Director

Austin Terrell

Project Development Manager

Jimena Martinez

Solar Operations Engineer

Bryan Didier

Partner, Managing Director

Ryan Zwilling

Executive Director

David McGlothlin

Manager Project Permitting

Elizabeth Brennan

Chief Operating Officer

James Millis

Director of Power Plant Maintenance

Anand Narayanan

Senior Vice President, Asset Management

Tiffany Wang

Sr. Research Analyst, Energy Storage

Kimberlee Centera

CEO

Josh Corbitt

Vice President

Jason Raymond

Solar Operations Manager

Javier Rico

Solar Associate

Richard Matsui

Independent Director

Walter Cuculic

Senior Vice President, Director Solar Lending

Matthew Messer

Vice President, Asset Management

Geoff Hebertson

Lead Renewables Analyst

Nick de Vries

Chief Technology Officer

Nick de Vries

Chief Technology Officer

Silicon Ranch

As Silicon Ranch’s Chief Technology Officer, Nick is charged with identifying and leveraging emerging technologies that enable Silicon Ranch to support the US domestic supply chain and demonstrate the sequestration of carbon. Nick has more than 20 years of diverse renewable energy, semiconductor, and military experience that inform his current work, including executive positions at SolarCity, Phoenix Solar, and Applied Materials. Nick’s renewable energy industry expertise spans module and cell manufacturing, photovoltaic project design and operation, auxiliary grid services, as well as the prediction and demonstration of the energy harvest of novel PV technologies. He has also worked on manufacturing amorphous silicon modules, and on process machine control of cell splitting and cascading cell bonding processes with heterojunction crystalline cells. Silicon Ranch owns projects that Nick himself designed nearly a decade ago, including the first transmission interconnected PV plant in the Southeast. Nick holds patents in both PV module manufacturing and design. While at Applied Materials, he advanced the use of statistical process control to enhance the reliability of production equipment. He has led the commissioning of process equipment at Intel semiconductor factories in both the U.S. and Europe, and entire solar cell factories in India, Germany, Spain, and China. Nick served his country on active duty as an Infantry Captain in the United States Army, with tours in Kuwait and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Nick is currently leading Silicon Ranch’s efforts to develop Cattle Tracker, working with the DOE, leading universities, and regenerative ranchers; Cattle Tracker is Silicon Ranch’s Integrated PV System Design and Management Platform for the co-optimization of cattle-grazing and PV solar generation while measuring the impacts of these efforts on the surrounding ecosystem dynamics and soil health.

Brandon Markham

Product Manager

Amanda Bybee

CEO

Marc D. Nickel

Senior Vice President

Chris Fletcher

Business and Human Rights Expert

Jay Jeter

Director, Services Business Development

Zack Townsend

Director | DG Optimization

Lauren Glickman

VP of Policy and Communications

Lauren Glickman

VP of Policy and Communications

Encore Renewable Energy

Lauren is the VP of Policy and Communications for Encore Renewable Energy. She has two decades of experience in clean energy and climate change advocacy, and a successful track record for implementing winning social media and online strategies. In 2023, Lauren was elected to serve a two year term on Solar Energy Industry Association’s Board of Directors as Vice Chair of Energy Storage. She was awarded a Platinum Cleanie Award in 2019 as a Rising Star for the clean energy industry, as well as a spot on the #Solar100, a ranking of the most influential leaders in the solar industry. She has spearheaded the strategic marketing and communications efforts for numerous companies and organizations across the renewable energy sector. Lauren has spent the last decade as a communications consultant for nonprofits and renewable energy businesses as a Managing Partner for RenewComm and independently as WindyGlick Communications. She’s worked with leaders across the wind, solar, energy storage and clean energy finance sectors including Women of Renewable Industries and Sustainable Energy, CleanCapital, Hannon Armstrong, Rope Partner, Solar Energy Trade Shows (now RE+), Grid Alternatives and Edison Energy. Previously, she was at the American Wind Energy Association (now the American Clean Power Association), where she was responsible for the re-design, relaunch and management of their social media program and the Power of Wind online advocacy portal. Her work was recognized among the top 10 social-media-savvy trade associations. She has also successfully organized marketing and advocacy campaigns for the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Environmental Working Group, and the Fund for Public Interest Research. Lauren served as an adjunct professor at The George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs, teaching undergraduate, graduate and executive education courses and seminars on social media theory and practice for a decade. She holds a Bachelor’s in Environmental Policy and English from Tulane University. Outside of her work to accelerate the clean energy transition, Lauren enjoys cooking, bluegrass, horseback riding and hikes with her dog Basil. She is a competitive amateur equestrian and competes with her horse George in the adult jumpers in the Vermont.

Doseke Akporiaye

Executive Director

Doseke Akporiaye

Executive Director

WRISE

Doseke Akporiaye has an extensive career and executive experience that spans over 20 years, in Strategy and Business Development, Strategic Human Resources, Performance Management, Organizational design and Operations Management. She also has worked with and sat on Boards, bringing these experiences to bear on, and delivering value to, wherever she has served. Her experience and knowledge working in Oil & Gas, Renewable Energy, Telecom, IT and Financial Services, are invaluable. Before joining WRISE, she was the Managing Director of the Nigerian subsidiary of Oolu LLC and a member of the Executive Committee of the group company. Together with her team, she grew the business’ geographic coverage from a single location to its nationwide presence in 3 years, deploying a national distribution and service delivery network. She also founded a boutique start-up and entrepreneurial-consulting firm which transforms ideas, irrespective of its stage of development, into competitive business realities. Doseke has successfully led/delivered several Strategy, Acquisition, Performance Management and Organizational Development projects. She is adept at partnering, advocacy, networking and building relationships with multiple and diverse stakeholders in government, private sector and special interest groups, to facilitate buy-in, change and the achievement of set objectives. Her vast personal network of professionals, business leaders, regulators, technocrats, development agencies and C suites across all key industries/sectors, will serve as an advantage to further the cause and objectives of WRISE. Her experience to date, her passion for social impact and her eagerness to contribute to building and driving socially & ethically conscious and sustainable organizations, are her key motivators and a perfect alignment to WRISE’s ethos.

Tanner Cobb

Senior Project Manager

Robert Morse

Sr. Vice President of Technical Operations

Jon Previtali

Senior Principal Engineer

Dino E. Barajas

Partner | Practice Group Chair - Project Finance

Jan Willem Zwang

Energy Trendwatcher

Jyoti Jain

Head of Software Product Management

Jess Gray

CEO

Keith Beers

Principal Engineer

Kevin Crowley

VP of Operations

Adewale OgunBadejo

VP of Workforce Development

Earl Evans

Indigenous Practice Manager

Travis Morrison

Product Development Engineer

Nick Kerwin

Senior Vice President

Michael Weinstein

Sr. Vice President and Head of Investor Relations

Will White

Solar Application Specialist

Matthew Casey

CEO of North America

Tess Williams

Co-Founder & Principal

Jaya Krishna Mallineni

Performance Engineering Manager

Valerie Newcomb

VP Economic & Community Development

Bryan Ho

VP Product Management - Optimization Products

Reece Lowry

Director of Engineering - SCADA

Aditya Negi

VP Asset Management

Sharat Singh

Founding CEO & Chief Architect

Jason Kaminsky

CEO

Werner Coppye

CTO

Pooja Shah

Sr Consultant Storage & Transportation

Nicole Thompson

Data Science Manager

Stanislas van der Vaeren

Co-Founder & Managing Director

Leah Holton

Practice Manager, Solar

Prashant Khorana

Director, Power & Renewables Consulting

Roger Ullman

Renewable Energy Supply Chain Manager

Andrew Chester

Co-Founder & CEO

Samir Seth

SVP Technology & Solutions

Kristin Dugas

Operations Engineering

Max Zhang

Professor at Cornell University

Nikhil Vadhavkar

Co-founder and CEO

Becky H. Diffen

Partner

Patrick Allen

Head of O&M

Glenna Wiseman

Head of Marketing & Communications

Karo Fernandez

PV O&M Training Manager

Leigh Zanone

Founder & CEO

PJ Vigilante

Manager, Asset Management

Savannah Whitfield

COO & Co-Founder

Nathan Krieger

Sr. Vice President - Commercial

Marianna Rasamoela

Senior Manager, Energy Markets

Allie Peters

Senior Operations Environmental Associate

Julian Campuzano

Director of Quality

Mabell Garcia Paine

President

Joshua Rogers

Sr Director of Workforce Safety, Training, and Ops

Erin Kivlehan

Vice President of Asset Management

Jesse Simons

Co-Founder and CCO

Ryan McCauley

Vice President, Business Development

Lorena Nieuwenhoven

Project Manager

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