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Steve Merrick

Steve Merrick, Staff Product Manager at Wärtsilä Energy Storage, manages the product development of battery analytics solutions that sit within Wärtsilä’s controls and optimisation software, GEMS. His work focuses on developing software that enhances battery efficiency, maintenance, and longevity, optimising these systems that are crucial to the global energy transition. Steve’s experience in energy storage […]

Raafe Khan

Raafe is Camelot’s Head of Energy Storage at Camelot Energy Group. He brings a great depth of knowledge across the energy storage project lifecycle having held tactical and leadership positions at TATA Power (public utility), Mortenson Construction (EPC), Sunnova Energy Corporation (finance + asset management), Pine Gate Renewables (project development), and Visteon Corporation (product development). […]

Paul Zavesoff

Paul is an accomplished professional with extensive experience in the power industry. As the Vice President of Asset Management at GridStor he is responsible for P&L management of GridStor’s battery energy storage projects.  GridStor is enabling the transition to a clean energy grid by deploying flexible, grid-connected batteries at scale. Prior to GridStor, Paul was […]

Ben Leary

Ben Leary is a Technical Asset Manager at Convergent Energy and Power, an owner-operator of battery and solar-plus-storage assets. He established the TAM function and drives cross-functional process improvements as Convergent scales from 100MW/300MWh toward 800MW/1GWh and over $1B of assets under operation and development. Ben also coordinates dispatch operations across 5 RTOs and leads […]

Andrea Saxenhofer

Andrea Saxenhofer is Associate Director at WOC | Signal, where she leads strategic communications and integrated PR campaigns for clients across renewable energy, distributed energy, clean transportation, and climate technology sectors. She advises organizations on messaging, media strategy, executive thought leadership and public-facing communications in complex and highly regulated environments. Andrea has supported utility-scale solar, […]

Jason Anderson

Jason is President and CEO of Cleantech San Diego, a business organization that positions the greater San Diego region as a global leader in the cleantech economy. Cleantech San Diego’s members include more than 130 businesses, universities, governments, and nonprofits committed to advancing sustainable solutions for the benefit of the economy and the environment. In […]