Mark Moskovitz is based in the Washington D.C. area and has over 20 years of consulting experience in the electric, gas, and water utility industry. He is experienced across a wide range of operational and corporate functions, for both regulated and unregulated entities, and has had leadership roles delivering retail/customer business strategies, processes and enabling technology, business strategy, integrated business planning, transmission planning/divestiture, and retail commodity. Mr. Moskovitz has most recently been focused assisting clients with the planning and implementation of Smart Grid solutions, including a recently completed end to end implementation of an AMI solution for a multi-jurisdictional utility.

Mr. Moskovitz also held key executive positions at IBM, Bearing Point ,Arthur Andersen (Accenture) , Booz Allen & Hamilton and Xenergy .

Mr. Moskovitz is a regular thought leadership contributor and industry speaker. He has co-authored Customer Transformation — A Challenge from Competitive Markets published Q1 2012 and was a significant contributor to Energy Crisis in the Western U.S., April 2001, Arthur Andersen and Customer Choice in the Information Age: North American Retail Energy Scenarios to 2015 that was co-developed with Cambridge Energy Research Associates and Arthur Andersen. Mr. Moskovitz served on the Advisory Board of Starlight Energy, a retail energy commodity provider.

Jiggs Travis has 40 years of experience in power generation, transmission and distribution. His career began in the U.S. Navy where he was trained and ultimately operated and maintained marine propulsion and generation systems, steam and diesel. After honorably serving his country for nine years, he worked briefly in construction, installing and maintaining electrical systems and controls in a wide range of applications including packing houses, cotton gins, and numerous commercial and manufacturing facilities. His path then took him to Southern California Edison (SCE), one of the largest investor-owned utilities in the country, where he spent the next 30 years.

During his time at SCE, Jiggs held leadership positions in power generation, nuclear, labor relations, transmission and distribution, and information technology. Jiggs’ responsibilities over the years have run the gamut from electrical crew supervisor maintaining power plant electrical systems, maintenance manager of a 650MW nuclear power plant, regional T&D manager for a geographic area more than 6,000 square miles, to the executive responsible for the enterprise asset management team for SCE’s recent ERP implementation. He has managed budgets, both capital and O&M in excess of $40 million and lead work groups exceeding 250 employees. Jiggs holds a bachelor of science degree in organizational leadership from Biola University and has participated in numerous technical and leadership development classes over the years.

Satish has spent over 20 years in key leadership positions at both start-ups and large technology corporations. Most recently, he was co-founder of a supply chain software company where he led go-to-market strategies, solutions and sales for the energy industry, till acquisition by a global supply chain player. Post acquisition, he handled strategic vertical solutions with special emphasis for the Energy vertical, in addition to leading emerging markets strategies. His cross-functional experience spans sales, marketing, product management, partnerships and global business development in the US, EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions. Satish believes that the key to business growth is amazingly customer-focused teams that share his passion for delivering customer delight.

Satish holds a Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from Oklahoma State University, where he was elected to the Phi Kappa Phi and Alpha Pi Mu academic honor societies, and a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the College of Engineering, Guindy. He was named to the 2011 Supply Chain Pros-to-Know by the Supply & Demand Chain Executive publication.

Ken has in-depth experience developing strategic and tactical plans in support of AMI Smart Grid infrastructure. And has successfully completed AMI Smart Grid security and infrastructure assessments, infrastructure consolidation projects, corporate-wide network and server upgrade projects, He has also held several senior executive positions in Information Technologies for Fortune 100 companies including positions as Strategic Business Unit Executive, Sr. Account Executive, Director of MIS, Director of Project Management and Director of Data Center Operations. He has more than 25 years of information technology experience and has managed budgets in excess of $20 million and capital projects in excess of $25 million. .. Ken has a master of science in technology management from Pepperdine University and a dual degree from the University of Phoenix, a Bachelor of Arts in management and business administration. He teaches in the technology departments of Kaplan University and the University of Phoenix and contributes articles to Examiner.com in the Technologies and Gadgets section.

Rhonda has more than 20 years of expertise in creating and implementing integrated marketing communications and public relations programs for a variety of B2B and B2C industries.

Prior to SUS, she was director of marketing communications for a technology incubator where she set the strategic marketing direction for multiple startups with business models based on university-developed technology innovations.

She led comprehensive marketing activities on a global scale across the United States, Europe and Asia Pacific for companies specializing in business-to-business workforce mobility solutions.

A graduate of California State University, Fullerton, Rhonda obtained a bachelor’s degree in business administration, with a concentration in marketing. Rhonda is also active in Toastmasters and holds the Competent Toastmaster designation.