BURLINGTON, MASS (January 24, 2007) – KEMA will host its 18th Executive Forum, "Innovation & Evolution: Outlook for Competitive Energy Markets," March 8 and 9, 2007 in San Antonio, Texas. The annual Executive Forum is the leading venue for addressing strategic, business and policy challenges facing retail energy markets. The Forum assembles leaders across a broad group of constituencies to improve understanding and dialogue, including senior industry executives, policymakers, advocates, academics, investors and customers.
“The current environment of high prices, political change, policy complexity and growing, but fragmented competition creates a difficult landscape for stakeholders to navigate,” says Forum Chairman and KEMA Senior Vice President Hugo van Nispen. “This gathering of key industry leaders will help sort through the complexity and identify opportunities to improve markets and policies.”
The following distinguished speakers will be participating, among others:
Hon. Charles Box, Chairman, Illinois Commerce Commission
Hon. Paul Hudson, Chairman, Public Utility Commission of Texas
Hon. Barry Smitherman, Commissioner, Public Utility Commission of Texas
James Ajello, Senior Vice President, Reliant Energy
John Anderson, President and CEO, Electric Consumers Resource Council (ELCON)
Richard Barnes, President, KEMA Services
John Bear, Chief Operating Officer, Midwest ISO
Deryl Brown, CEO, Hudson Energy Services
James Burke, CEO, TXU Energy
Kateri Callahan, President, Alliance to Save Energy
Ron Cerniglia, Office of Retail Market Development, New York Public Service Commission
Vikas Dwivedi, Lead Analyst - Power, Morgan Stanley
Ray Guiliani, Chief of Market Operations, ERCOT
Tim Healy, CEO, EnerNOC
Arlene Juracek, Vice President, ComEd
Lynne Keisling, Professor, Northwestern University
Donald Lee, Executive Director, Public Power Pool
Wendy Lee, Senior Manager, Massachusetts HEFA
Jorge Lopez, CEO, ConEd Solutions
Mark Ludwig, Vice President, Sempra Energy Solutions
Catherine Luthin, Luthin Associates
Shahid Malik, CEO, Strategic Energy
Robert Manning, Director of Engineering, H-E-B, and former Vice Chair, ERCOT
Brennan Mulcahy, CEO, Energy Savings Group
Clem Palevich, CEO, Constellation NewEnergy
David Roylance, Vice President, Reliant Energy
Jigar Shah, CEO, SunEdison
John Shelk, Executive Director, Electric Power Supply Association (EPSA)
Marilyn Showalter, former Chairwoman of Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission
Robert Snyder, Chairman, Stream Energy
James Steffes, Vice President, Direct Energy
Chris Thomas, Director of Policy, Citizens' Utility Board
Paul Thomas, CEO, Green Mountain Energy
Taff Tschamler, Director, KEMA
Phillip Tonge, President, Direct Energy
Jeff Weiser, President, First Choice Power
David Weiss, President and COO, Pepco Energy Services
Rob Wilhite, Director, KEMA