Her 15 years of experience in California’s energy efficiency and demand response industry also includes previous work with EnerNOC, Ecos Consulting, and Energy and Environmental Economics (E3). At TRC, Ms. Henrikson is a strategic advisor for internal and external stakeholders across the Western U.S., and she designs and implements commercial and industrial efficiency and sustainability programs for clients across the country, including the California IOUs, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Port of Long Beach. Her approach to consulting services focuses on increasing customer engagement through integrated energy efficiency, demand response, renewable technologies, and carbon reduction strategies. Additionally, Ms. Henrikson’s professional experience includes regulatory affairs and policy development, strategic and financial planning, business development and marketing, operations management, and contract negotiations. Ms. Henrikson holds a MBA and MSc in Natural Resource Policy from University of Michigan’s Erb Institute of Global Sustainable Enterprise, and a BA from Wesleyan University.

Gene Rodrigues is Vice President of Market Development at ICF, a global consulting and professional services provider with more than 5,000 professionals who share a passion for making a positive impact on the world and a focus on making big things possible for our clients. Prior to joining ICF, Gene spent 23 years at Southern California Edison (SCE), where he was responsible for the direction and oversight of SCE’s portfolio of Energy Efficiency, Demand Response, Low Income Energy Efficiency, Low Income Rate Assistance, California Solar Initiative and Self Generation Incentive programs.

Gene currently serves on the boards of directors of the California Efficiency + Demand Management Council and the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. He is also co-chair of the Alliance to Save Energy’s Charles H. Percy Society. In 2012, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency presented Gene with its first-ever Climate Leadership Award for individual leadership.

Matt is the North America Vice President, Opower Sales at Oracle Utilities. Matt is responsible for managing and executing the company’s sales and business development strategy in the United States and Canada. In this role, he leads a team that works with Opower’s customers throughout North America to develop and implement energy efficiency, demand response, customer engagement, and smart grid projects. He served on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Energy Efficiency Alliance from 2014-2016.

Prior to joining Opower, Matt worked at the California Energy Efficiency Industry Council where he worked with leaders of energy efficiency businesses, investor-owned utilities, and regulatory bodies to expand and stabilize the market for efficiency-focused companies. Prior to his work at the Efficiency Council, he held various positions in municipal government, non-profits, politics, and education. Matt’s work focused on the intersection of clean technology, government, and business. Matt is a former Teach For America corps member, and has degrees from UCLA and George Washington University.

Mahlon currently leads strategy and product development activities and is responsible for Ecology Action’s strategic partnership development with top firms across the energy industry, financial sector, public agencies and multiple foundations. Mahlon has been with Ecology Action since 1993 and founded Ecology Action’s energy efficiency consulting practice. He led the team through its start-up and rapid early growth stages, which required him to be actively involved in policy engagement and proceedings before the CPUC and CEC. Mahlon served by invitation on several advisory groups and steering committees focused on driving deep, comprehensive energy efficiency for small to medium sized commercial buildings.

Sharyn is the Senior Vice President for Opinion Dynamics ad has worked in a variety of positions over the past 30 years, including work as a utility employee, consultant, and business owner. She has worked for large companies (Itron, Florida Power and Light) and mid-sized companies such as Opinion Dynamics. She has served in a board capacity for the International Energy Program Evaluation Conference (IEPEC) for over a decade, and is now the President of IEPEC.  She also helped to start the now flourishing Behavior Energy and Climate Change Conference (BECC), and has played key roles in other industry organizations such as EMACS and PLMA.   Sharyn resides in Washington State, but frequently to Opinion Dynamics’ offices in Southern California and the Bay Area.

As an energy executive, consultant and entrepreneur, Lauren Casentini has been a national leader in energy efficiency program design and management, industry policy, and stakeholder engagement for more than 30 years. While at Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), she spearheaded some of the nation’s first and most successful energy efficiency programs for the residential market. She went on to found two companies, Resource Solutions Group and Resource Innovations, to transform the industry with innovations that make resource efficiency more available, more accessible, and more affordable, for all populations. Lauren has also held key executive roles at CLEAResult, including Board member, Senior Vice President of the California and Midwest Region, and Senior Vice President of National Policy and Regulatory Relations.

Now as CEO of Resource Innovations, Lauren continues to provide strategic guidance to create programs that deliver sustainable energy savings for diverse energy industry clients and stakeholders. Lauren also remains active in influencing federal and state energy policy by serving as a speaker and panelist for energy forums and events nationwide. Lauren is a co-founder and long-time board member of the California Efficiency and Demand Management Council.

Cody has extensive experience developing and managing the implementation of energy asset strategies for energy intensive business operations on three continents. Over the last 10 years, he has worked as a consultant to help clients cost effectively establish load management practices that line up with their business objectives. This has included minimizing supply requirements, enabling load balancing and grid management controls, and integrating renewable energy generation. Cody is currently the Director of Program Services for Lincus, where he operates the Water Infrastructure System Efficiency program for water and wastewater operators in SDG&E, SCE, and PG&E territory.

Rick Counihan is Head of Regulatory and Government Affairs at Nest Labs. Rick’s career spans more than 25 years, and most of those years were in California energy efficiency and demand response. He has held responsible positions in local, state and federal government, as well as the private sector. The latter part of Rick’s career has been in the electric industry working with utilities (Southern California Edison), research organizations (EPRI) and start-up companies (Green Mountain Energy, EnerNOC). Rick has a B.A. in Economics from Pomona College and a Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard University. Rick has made significant contributions throughout his career and has held Director positions on the boards of the Advanced Energy Management Alliance, the Center for Resource Solutions, the Council for Sustainable Energy and the Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies, among others.

With more than 35 years of experience as an active proponent of economically efficient energy production, distribution, and use, Mr. Fry’s focus is on improving energy efficiency and creating demand response policies, programs, and technologies. Terry currently heads Cadmus’ Energy Services group, which comprises more than 250 staff members who deliver intelligent grid, distributed energy resources, and customer solutions to energy sector organizations. His expertise includes technical, economic, and policy analyses, reflected in the myriad engagements he has led on behalf of utility, governmental, and commercial client organizations worldwide.

Ann McCormick is a Senior Vice President of Willdan and  has been an active member of the energy efficiency community in Northern California for over 30 years.  She was a founding principal of Newcomb Anderson McCormick (NAM) in 2005, a San Francisco based energy engineering and management consulting firm. Her group joined Willdan in 2018 to strengthen their range of clean energy services to public sector clients nationwide. Ms. McCormick also serves as President of the City of Alameda’s Public Utilities Board which oversees Alameda Municipal Power, where she has led their exemplary program and policies to achieve a fully carbon free power portfolio.  She holds a MS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin- Madison and a BSME from Michigan State University. She is a registered Mechanical Engineer and a LEED Accredited Professional.

Joanne O’Neill has over 12 years of experience in the demand side management and utility industries. During this time Joanne has developed, launched and implemented numerous energy efficiency programs across residential, commercial and industrial customer segments. She has a long history of working with key market actors including manufacturers, retailers and contractors to successfully deliver these programs. In addition to energy efficiency, Joanne has led numerous product development efforts, including the design of time-of-use rate pilots and locational targeting of DSM resources for capital transmission and distribution project deferral. She has experience with portfolio regulatory submissions, testifying as an expert witness, state policy advocacy, and strategic planning processes. In her role as the Director of Programs, Joanne leads a team responsible for delivering a set of diverse, innovative and cost-effective offerings across northern and southern California in the commercial, public, industrial and agricultural sectors. She also continues to leverage her expertise in time variant rates and grid modernization to assist clients across the country. In addition to a MBA in Sustainable Business, she is a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and certified in Pragmatic Marketing.

As the founder of Onsite Energy, Mr. Sperberg has over thirty-five years of experience in the field of energy efficiency and has led Onsite to be the leading independent ESCO in the industrial market sector. As one of the early pioneers in the energy efficiency project business, Rich is responsible for having developed Onsite into an innovative leader in the analysis, engineering, development and construction of energy efficiency and distributed generation projects. Rich has been a leader in the ESCO industry in that he successfully worked in close coordination and collaboration with utility companies on such innovative programs as SCE’s Demand Side Bidding Pilot in the mid 1990’s, and the Standard Performance Contract program starting in 1997, when he was instrumental as the ESCO industry’s representative to the California Board For Energy Efficiency (CBEE) in shaping the future of energy efficiency programs in California. Prior to founding Onsite, Rich led projects on behalf of the Gas Research Institute and the U.S. Department of Energy involved in cogeneration, fuel cells and advanced nuclear power reactor development.

He holds a Bachelors degree in Nuclear Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Masters degree in Nuclear Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. Mr. Sperberg is a former President of the American Co-generation Association and National Association of Energy Services Companies (NAESCO).

Greg a managing director in Navigant’s Energy Practice and is based in the San Francisco office. In his more than 25 years of experience in the energy efficiency (EE), demand response (DR) and Smart Grid industry, Greg has conducted national, regional and utility-specific EE and DR market potentials, program designs, and evaluation assessments. Greg is currently directing projects related to DR and EE program potential, market characterization, program design and evaluation studies. Greg is also involved in a number of projects with utilities to integrate demand-side resources including EE, DR, distributed generation and storage into grid and utility network operations.

Ms. Chamberlin brings more than 18 years of expert competitive market and policy advocacy to to her work in the energy industry. Ms Chamberlin has extensive experience advocating for, developing, and analyzing market rules and procurement policy across the competitive energy industry. Her career has focused on the market rules surrounding renewable energy, demand side resources and retail access marketplaces throughout the US.

Prior joining CPower to lead market development for its Demand Response business, Ms Chamberlin served the Director of Regulatory Affairs for Johnson Controls Integrated Demand Resources business unit, as the principal of Energy Policy Advocates, Director of Regulatory and Legislative Policy for LS Power Development, Manager of Regulatory and Government Affairs for Strategic Energy and Direct Energy, Manager of Regulatory Affairs for Chevron Energy Solutions, and Manager of Market Development for PG&E Energy Services. She was previously a consultant with Barakat and Chamberlin.