2025 Summit Guest Speakers
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Emcee or Welcome Address
Molly Bauch
Senior Manager
Accenture
Tim Fairchild
Faculty
University of Idaho Energy Executive Course
Kendrick Fentress
Attorney, Special Advisor
NC Dept. of Environmental Quality
Leni John
Senior Vice President, Operations
Strata Clean Energy
Truman Semans
Founder
OS-Climate (Open Source Climate)
John Szoka
CEO
Conservative Energy Network
Markus Wilhelm
CEO
Strata Clean Energy
Keynote Speakers
Anthony Allard
EVP Head of North America
Hitachi Energy
Ahmad Chatila
Managing Partner
Fenice Investment Group
Eugene Flood, Jr., Ph.D.
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Flood Mason Holdings
Douglas Friedman
CEO
BioMADE
Rose Hall
Founder & CEO
RH Business Ventures, LLC
Kelvin Henderson
Senior Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer
Duke Energy
Alex Hsu
President
Fortune Electric America
Mike Luciani
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Juniper
Mark Mitchell
Senior VP for Construction
Dominion Energy
Heather Reams
President
Citizens For Responsible Energy Solutions (CRES)
Valerie Smith
Chief Sustainability Officer, Managing Director
Citi
Ray Spitzley
Vice Chairman
Morgan Stanley
Edward Stewart
West Zone Energy Transition Growth Leader
Marsh
Moderators
Matt Abele
Executive Director
NCSEA
Stan Ahalt
Dean
UNC School of Data Science and Society
Glenn Anderson
Board Chair
Cape Fear Ocean Labs
Stephen Arbogast
Professor of the Practice of Finance
UNC Kenan-Flagler School of Business
Abdedaim Battioui
PhD Researcher
UNC Chapel Hill
Rachel Baum
Director of Industry Engagement
UNC Institute for Risk Management and Insurance Innovation
Brian Bednar
Founder, Renewable Energy Executive, Investor
HighCraft, LLC
Jeff Benavides
Director of Portfolios Performance at Scale
U.S. Green Building Council
Ethan Blumenthal
Regulatory Counsel
North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association
Vicki Boyne
Partner
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Brett Breitschwerdt
Partner
McGuireWoods
Lukas Brun
Research Director
E4 Carolinas
Toni Bucci
Founder and CEO
Sable Fermentation
Bill Bullock
Senior Vice President, Economic & Statewide Development
North Carolina Biotechnology Center
Rachel Burton
Senior Consultant
ProcessWerx, LLC
Bill Capp
Founder
Grid Storage Consulting
Greg Characklis
Director of Center on Financial Risk in Environmental Systems
UNC IRMII
Will Clayton
CEO
Sky Harvest
Micheal Clear
Science Associate
Schmidt Sciences
Terrence DeFranco
Chairman and CEO
IotaComm
Dan Domeracki
Professor of Practice, Energy
Associate Director
UNC Energy Center
Victoria Farella
Cleantech Corner Intern
UNC Chapel Hill
Sid Fowler
Counsel
Pillsbury Law
Mary Margaret Frank
Dean and Professor of Accounting
UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
Darrell Fruth
Partner
Smith Anderson
Page Gravely
Co-Founder, President
Mission Energy
Alex Hopkins
Interim Director, Energy Transition Initiative
UNC Institute for the Environment
Mark Huang
Co-founder and Partner
LongLeaf Studios
Noah Kittner
UNC Chapel Hill
Matt Kozey
CEO and Co-founder
Arena Renewables
Bonnie Lind
VP of Business Development, Global Energy & Climate Tech Practice
Brown & Brown
Terry Maddox
Chief Energy Officer
Envira Global Ltd.
Sandra Merkel-DeJames
Founder and CEO
Trellis Eco Technologies
Jeffrey Mittelstadt
Professor of the Practice, Strategy & Entrepreneurship; Executive Director
Ackerman Center for Excellence in Sustainability at Kenan-Flagler Business School
Pavel Molchanov
Investment Strategy Analyst
Raymond James & Associates
JP Moscarella
Co-founder
Resilient Earth Capital
Megan Neligan
Director, Aligned Solar Partners
Aligned Climate Capital
Frank Nelms
Director
ScottMadden
David Nenon
Supply Chain Manager, Battery Strategy
Ford Motor Company
Dipo Okusaga
Head of Energy, Climate and Programme Management
UK Embassy
Joseph Paladino
Senior Advisor, Office of Electricity
Department of Energy (DOE)
Sameer Parvathikar
Technology Advancement and Commercialization
RTI
Chris Psihoules
Senior Counsel
Norton Rose Fulbright
Joe Rinkevich
Principal
JPRSustainability
Jack Rosenberg
Director of Advisory & Production
Rosenberg & Parker
Melissa Sharp
Associate Director, Zeis Textiles Extension
NC State Wilson College of Textiles
Tracy Triggs-Matthews
Associate Director
Ackerman Center for Excellence in Sustainability
Chris Vlahoplus
Vlahoplus Consulting, LLC
Deb Wojcik
PhD
Executive Director
Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster
Harrison Zeff
Director of Research
UNC Institute for Risk Management and Insurance Innovation
Panelists
Donald Addu
Director, Carbon Markets
CarbonCure Technologies
Joe Anderson
Hive Tracks
Linda Andrén
Executive Director
Green Transition Initiative
Victoria Beasley
Partner
Gigascale Capital
Brad Beckman
Director, System Integrity + R&D
Southern Company
Doug Beebe
Vice President
Key Equipment Finance
Stephen Bennett
J.D.
Head of Climate and Catastrophe Science
Mercury Insurance
Rokas Beresniovas
Senior Director of Commercial Business & Climate Finance
Montgomery County Green Bank
Matt Besch
Vice President of Marketing
ACCURE Battery Intelligence
Vikas Bharathwaaj
Managing Director, Investment Banking
Morgan Stanley
Subhashish Bhattacharya
Duke Energy Distinguished Professor
DG Matrix and NCSU
Patrick Blandford
Founder and CEO
Green Shield Holdings
Kyle Bradbury
Director, Energy Data Analytics Lab | Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability
Duke University
Brian Brazeau
Partner
Ferment
Ray Brooks
EVP-Refining (retired)
Marathon Petroleum
David Brown
Senior Principal
Obsidian Renewables
Mark Bruinooge
Chief Investment Officer
2040 Fund
Michael Burns
Managing Director. Energy Transition
MQAAB
David Burt
Founder and CEO
DeltaTerra Capital
Christine Cadigan
Executive Vice President, Carbon Origination
American Forest Foundation
Colleen Campbell
Independent Battery Expert
Lawson Carmichael
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
LongLeaf Studios
Chris Castro
EVP, Chief Sustainability Officer
Climate First Bank
Karen Century
Director of Operations
2Blades
Darren Lee Cheng Loong
Regional Director
Regional Director
Enterprise Singapore
Soojin Choung
CEO
Witness Creative Partners Inc.
Nigel Cockroft
General Manager
Jinko Solar
Joe Colletti
Gulf Coast CCUS
ExxonMobil
Stephanie Coveney
Senior Vice President, Global Energy & Climate Tech
Brown & Brown
Simon Critten
SVP
Mott MacDonald