TRANSPORTATION - Key Persons

Transportation today is the focal point of a lot of challenges, from congestion to emissions, and there is no blueprint solution… yet. Alex Keros is leading the charge at Maven, GM's urban mobility brand, in re-imagining the processes and policies needed to make future mobility solutions work. His "get-it-done, step-by-step" approach allows him to see simple, incremental solutions building into sustainable infrastructure for new mobility experiences. To do this, Mr. Keros works hand-in-hand with various stakeholders, including utilities, regulators, and local officials, to help people move more freely and easily within their home cities. His ultimate goal is to provide answers to issues like economic development and public safety through efficient transportation. Mr. Keros joined GM in 2007 and has worked across various teams to create frameworks around new innovative eco-friendly products-Chevy Bolt and GM's Hydrogen Fuel Cell Equinox-so the consumers will have the best experience. His unique skill in balancing energy policy, environmental engineering, and business strategy has given him an innovative toolbox to tap into to electrify mobility. While at GM, Mr. Keros has served as a Commissioner in Massachusetts' Zero Emission Vehicle Commission and for the Maryland Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Council, acting as the principal author for the California Fuel Cell Partnership's Hydrogen Roadmap and works with students at the University of Michigan's Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise. Mr. Keros began his career in environmental consulting, where he managed the assessment and remediation of hazardous waste sites for Fortune 500companies. He has extensive experience in environmental policy design and implementation. Mr. Keros also grew up learning the ropes in his family-owned restaurant, the American Coney Island. Founded in 1917, the restaurant is widely recognized as inventing the tradition of Detroit's chilidog. Mr. Keros earned a B.S. in Natural Resource Management and a Master's in Business Administration from the University of Michigan.

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• Senior Advisor

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• Chairman of the Policy Committee
• Chairman, Exelon Utilities

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• Vice President of Customer Energy & Transportation Solutions at Xcel Energy
• Vice President, Customer Energy & Transportation Solutions

Emmett Romine is the Vice President of Customer Energy & Transportation Solutions at Xcel Energy. In his role Emmett leads clean transportation, corporate economic development, demand management, renewable choice, energy efficiency, brand and customer insights and the creation of innovative solutions that exceed the unique needs of residential and commercial customers. Before joining Xcel Energy in 2019 Emmett previously held a leadership role at Powerley, a technology company that provides utilities with solutions aimed at bridging the smart grid to the smart home. He has 20 years of utility industry experience with 13 years at DTE Energy working in areas including distribution operations, continuous improvement, finance, and energy efficiency. Emmett holds a master's degree in business from the Olin Business School at Washington University, St. Louis and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Washington University. He also attended the Executive Education Program with a focus on organic growth and innovation from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He is a member of Edison Electric Institutes Customer Solutions Executive Advisory Committee, serves on the Downtown Denver Economic Development Council, is a member of the board of the Alliance for Transportation Electrification and is a member of the board of Mi Casa Resource Center in Denver.

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• Senior Vice President of Customer Solutions and Corporate Development for Southern Company
• Senior Vice President, Customer Solutions & Corporate Development

Hank Adams serves as senior vice president of customer solutions and corporate development for Southern Company. In this role, he is responsible for delivering growth, customer solutions and system collaboration across all Southern Company's gas and electric subsidiaries. He oversees national accounts and federal energy services and partnerships teams that manage Southern Company's national corporate energy users and federal government customers. He also leads the planning and regulatory support team that develops Southern Company's forecasted energy demand and, specifically, the New Ventures organization that manages the company's founding investment in Energy Impact Partners, a $3 billion utility-backed venture capital fund dedicated to accelerating the energy transition. Before his current role, Adams served as vice president of origination and acquisitions for Southern Power. In this role, he led business development efforts including acquisitions for 2+ GW of renewable assets totaling $3B+ in capex and recontacting of 2.5 GWs of natural gas assets. Prior to Southern Power, Adams served in various external affairs roles at Georgia Power including area manager, external affairs manager and assistant to the executive vice president of external affairs and nuclear development. Adams currently serves on the board for Alliance for Transportation Electrification and is a former board member of the California Energy Storage Association. In the community, he has been involved in serving on several committees and boards including Boys and Girls Club of Central Alabama and Rome/Floyd County Communities in Schools. Adams earned his bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from Georgia Tech and MBA from Auburn University. He and his wife, Ashley, reside in Birmingham with their two children, Henry, and Hines.

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• Chairman Emeritus
• Executive Vice President, Business Development

James P. Laurito is Executive Vice President, Business Development, and Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Laurito served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation, the Corporation's first U.S. subsidiary. He joined Central Hudson in January 2010 as President of the Utility. Mr. Laurito also served as President and Chief Executive Officer of both New York State Electric and Gas Corporation and Rochester Gas and Electric Corporation, subsidiaries of Iberdrola/ Energy East Corporation. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from West Virginia University and completed an Executive Program in Finance and Manufacturing Management at Columbia University. Mr. Laurito serves on the Boards of Central Hudson and ITC Holdings Corp., both Fortis utilities. He has served on the Board of UNS Energy, a Fortis utility. Mr. Laurito serves on several industry boards, including the Edison Electric Institute, American Gas Association, and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Upstate Advisory Board. He is past Chair of the Northeast Gas Association.

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• Chairman of the Policy Committee
• Vice - Chair, General Motors

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• Chairman of the Technical Committee
• Vice - Chair, Sr. Director, Electric Vehicles, EnergyHub

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• Secretary
• Is Director

Kevin Woodbury is Director, Innovation and Technology, with Fortis Inc. Based in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Kevin is responsible for leading innovation for Fortis' diversified utility operations. Aiming to create a leading culture of innovation across the organization, Kevin works with Fortis' subsidiaries to advance new ideas and technologies needed to meet the future demands of customers and the energy system.

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• Chairman of the Policy Committee
• Vice - Chair, Southern Company

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• Senior Vice President of Pricing and Customer Solutions for Duke Energy
• Senior Vice President, Pricing and Customer Solutions

Lon Huber serves as senior vice president of pricing and customer solutions for Duke Energy. With a focus on revenue generation and carbon savings, Lon leads the strategy and delivery of product & service portfolios spanning all customer types. To further meet evolving customer needs, Lon also oversees the development and implementation of innovative rate designs and creative regulated solutions across eight different jurisdictions. Prior to Duke, Lon worked for state commissions, clean technology companies and consumer advocates across the country as a consultant. Lon has also held various positions in the public and private sectors ranging from economic development to state government and the solar energy industry. Lon has received numerous awards for his creative solutions to the electricity industry's most pressing issues, including awards from Public Utilities Fortnightly, the top honor from the Energy Storage Association as well as Utility Dive's Innovator of the Year award. Lon is also a regular instructor at FRI's Advanced Rates Seminar at the University of Washington.

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• President and CEO, FLO

A trailblazer in the field of electric mobility in Canada, Louis Tremblay co-founded FLO in 2009 while he was still a student at Laval University (Quebec). Over the years, he's established himself as an influential and respected figure in the electric vehicle (EV) industry as he guides his company to become a leader in EV charging solutions and the operator of a major North American charging network. His entrepreneurial passion has led him to chair the boards of Propulsion Québec, Quebec's Industrial Cluster for Electric and Smart Transportation, and of Inno-centre. He's now on the board of directors for North America's Alliance for Transportation Electrification. Louis graduated from Laval University with a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and pursued graduate-level studies in Power Electronics.

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• Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Innovation, Ameren, Inc.

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• Chairman Emeritus
• Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Southern Company Services

Mark Lantrip serves as the chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Southern Company Services. In this role, he is responsible for overseeing the company's unregulated and innovative business strategies. He oversees Southern Company's industry-leading R&D organization and develops new technologies for the generation, delivery, and energy use. Lantrip also leads Southern Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company. Southern Power is America's premier wholesale energy partner meeting municipalities' needs, electric cooperatives, investor-owned utilities, and large commercial and industrial customers with one of the fastest-growing clean energy portfolios in the U.S. He also oversees Power Secure, Southern Company's distributed infrastructure development company. Power Secure is a leading developer of microgrids and resiliency products to commercial and industrial customers nationwide. Lantrip joined the company in 1981 as an analyst at Gulf Power and progressed through increasing levels of responsibilities at Georgia Power and Southern Company Services. Prior to assuming his current role in 2014, Lantrip served as executive vice president of finance for Southern Company Services and Southern Company treasurer with responsibility for financial planning and analysis, enterprise risk management, trust finance, capital markets, and treasury. Lantrip is co-chair of the Institute for Electric Innovation, an Institute of the Edison Foundation focused on advancing the adoption of innovative and efficient technologies among electric utilities and their technology partners to transform the power grid. He chairs the board of The Alliance for Transportation Electrification, a broad and diverse coalition of organizations that advocate for accelerating transportation electrification in all states across the country. Lantrip holds a bachelor's degree from Southern Illinois University and a master's degree from the University of West Florida. He and his wife Lisa have two children and four grandchildren.09.20.19

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• Vice President, Regulatory Affairs, Southern California Edison ( SCE )

Managing Director, Energy & Environmental Policy Southern California Edison Michael Backstrom is the Managing Director, Energy & Environmental Policy for Southern California Edison (SCE). In this role, he is responsible for leading the analysis of proposed energy and environmental regulations, developing regulatory engagement strategies, overseeing advocacy at state and federal environmental agencies, and ensuring effective case management of key energy policy proceedings. His area of responsibility is SCE's policy positions and regulatory submissions related to advancing electric transportation. Mr. Backstrom joined SCE in 2005 as an attorney, responsible for regulatory proceedings before the California Public Utilities Commission. He holds a bachelor's degree in English from Pepperdine University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Southern California.

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• Chairman of the Technical Committee
• Senior Advisor
• Vice - Chair, Senior Advisor, ATE

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• Senior Vice President, Strategy
• Senior Vice President, Strategy & Regulation

Mike Calviou is Senior Vice President, Strategy & Regulation, for National Grid USA ("National Grid"). Mike is responsible for developing the business, regulatory, and customer strategy for National Grid's US business and ensuring we have energy policy positions consistent with that strategy. He leads on ensuring we have long-term plans to deliver clean energy to our customers at an affordable price and the reliability our customers expect. He is also responsible for National Grid's regulatory and pricing functions across all of National Grid's U.S. jurisdictions and operating companies. Mike has spent over 30 years working for National Grid plc in various capacities in the U.S. and U.K., including senior leadership positions in Customer Service, Asset Management/Engineering, and Strategy. Prior to his current role, he previously led all the customer and commercial activities and the strategic design for Great Britain's (GB) electricity and gas transmission networks. This included managing the regulatory and contractual framework that governed connections to the electricity and gas transmission systems, responsibility for all major policy decisions, and strategy development concerning the market design and industry frameworks in the U.K. and Europe. He also chaired the Executive Committee for National Grid's U.K. System Operator function (covering both electricity and gas) for Great Britain. Mike has a degree in Theoretical Physics from Cambridge University and resides in Natick, Massachusetts, with his son.

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• Senior Advisor
• Founder of Atlas Public Policy

Nick Nigro is the founder of Atlas Public Policy and has led Atlas as the company has become a respected voice in the public policy field. Nick has nearly 20 years of experience managing teams of various disciplines and sizes with a focus on innovation and value creation. He is a nationally known expert on climate change policy, transportation electrification, and the greater use of data in policy analysis. He has led the development of several complex financial and policy analysis tools, convened large groups of diverse stakeholders nationwide, is a frequent public speaker on energy and environmental issues, and has expert knowledge in web, database, and other advanced technologies. Nick holds a Master of Public Policy from the University of California Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

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• Executive Director
• Executive Director, ATE, Ex Officio
• President of Phil Jones Consulting LLC

Philip Jones is currently President of Phil Jones Consulting LLC based in Seattle, Washington, which provides expert advice and consulting services for organizations in energy and utility regulation, communications regulation, and cybersecurity compliance and regulation. He is continuing to work in market development and potential independent system operators (ISO's) in the Western States and EV (electric vehicle) infrastructure and distributed energy resources. He provides advice at the C-Suite level to utilities and organizations in assessing the future viability of utility regulation given the changing dynamics in the regulated electricity and natural gas industries. Mr. Jones currently serves as Executive Director of the Alliance for Transportation Electrification (ATE), a recently established industry-funded non-profit association that seeks to promote the acceleration of transportation electrification deployments, a robust utility role, and interoperability and open standards. He also serves as a Board Advisor to Energy Impact Partners (EIP), based in New York City, a private equity infrastructure fund comprised of major utility investors seeking to invest in innovative young technology companies focused on the energy sector. He also serves on the non-profit Boards of Directors of Climate Solutions. He currently services on the Advisory Council of EPRI, which is the lead R&D organization's public-interest voice for the international electric power industry consisting of current NARUC Commissioners, academics, vendors, and industry experts. Commissioner Jones served on the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission (UTC) from March 2005 to March 2017 for a total of twelve years or two six-year terms. Originally appointed by Governor Chris Gregoire and confirmed unanimously by the state Senate for his original term, he was re-appointed by the same Governor in January 2011 for an additional term. Mr. Jones served in many advisory roles in the energy and communications sectors during his tenure. He was active nationally with the FERC, U.S. Department of Energy, DHS, and the FCC. In the communications field, Mr. Jones served on the North American Numbering Council (NANC) and the Task Force on Optimal PSAP Architecture (TFOPA) of the FCC regarding NG 911 system deployment. Mr. Jones served as President of NARUC (National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners) in the 2012-13 year. He made cybersecurity and gas pipeline safety his themes for the 50 state Commissions. He served on the Board of Directors of NARUC from 2011 to 2017 and chaired the Washington Action Committee. He served on the Telecommunications Committee of NARUC and was active in issues such as numbering, universal service, intercarrier compensation reforms, and public safety and Next-Generation 911 issues. Mr. Jones served on the Board of the National Regulatory Research Institute (NRRI) for several years, serving as Chair of the Board from 2009 to 2012.Mr. Jones served as Managing Director of Cutter & Buck (Europe) BV, based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, from 1997 to 2012. He managed an apparel and sportswear operation across the U.K. and continental Europe. He also founded and operated an independent consulting business based in Seattle from 1991 to 1997, where he specialized in offering advice and consulting services in energy policy and international trade issues. From 1983 to1989, Mr. Jones served as a senior legislative assistant to former Senator Daniel J. Evans (Washington-Rep.) in the U.S. Senate, in which he staffed him on multiple energy and natural resource issues, including the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), electricity transmission, nuclear waste legislation, oversight of U.S. DOE policies and budgets, as well as international trade policy agreements such as the WTO and NAFTA, among others. Mr. Jones is a native of Spokane, Washington, and graduated from Harvard College with a B.A., with Honors, in East Asian Studies in 1977.

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• Chairman of the Technical Committee
• Chairman, Energy Innovations Advisor, Arizona Public Service ( APS )

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• Vice - Chair

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• Senior Advisor

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• Commissioner for St. Louis Lambert International Airport
• Vice President of Property for Enterprise Mobility

As vice president of property for Enterprise Mobility, Sean leads the organization's real estate, facility management, construction, and environmental, health and safety teams, supporting more than 10,000 global locations with over 90,000 employees. Sean began his career in the management training program in 1992. His 31 years with the company reflect continual advancement, marked by consistent achievements across leisure, travel and tourism business operations. Sean has a decade's worth of experience evaluating environmental risks in the car rental and airport industries. Sean's tenure with the world's largest provider of mobility solutions gives him unique and innovative expertise in mobility framework, strategy implementation and market analysis. His knowledge of electrification infrastructure and systems was gleaned through his management of yearly active construction projects between $70-120 million, a lease portfolio of $6 billion and $15 million in annual acquisition investments. His experience managing multi-million-dollar construction and facilities projects lends him keen knowledge of electrification infrastructure. Sean currently serves as commissioner for St. Louis Lambert International Airport and as director and board member for the Airport Minority Advisory Council Foundation. In 2016 he was appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Transportation to serve as a committee member of the National Advisory Committee on Travel and Tourism Infrastructure. Sean earned a degree in business from Skidmore College in New York. He resides in St. Louis with his wife Christine.