Alan Cooper is CEO and Co-Founder of ON.energy, a billion-dollar, multinational energy-technology company deploying gigawatts of energy storage and UPS for AI data centers, critical infrastructure, and grid assets.

Cooper sets ON.energy's strategy and drives its operational and financial results. Under his leadership, the company has grown to over 200 employees and 3 GW+ of operating and under-construction capacity, purpose-built to meet the reliability demands of AI-scale loads and complex grid environments.

A proven entrepreneur and operator, Cooper has founded and exited several companies across the energy technology space, from oil and gas to power generation and storage. He holds an Honours BA in Economics from the University of Toronto.

Cameron Bard leads business and market development for Madison, overseeing sales, marketing, and customer success to deploy more clean energy and build stronger communities. Cameron has spent his entire career in clean energy and climate, holding senior leadership positions in the private sector and previously serving in state government, including in the New York State Governor’s Office as Chief of Staff to the Chairman of Energy & Finance.

Elliot Hinds is a partner in Sheppard’s Century City office and co-leader of the firm’s Digital Infrastructure Team. Elliot advises developers, sponsors and owners on the development, financing, acquisition and disposition of digital infrastructure and data center projects.

He helps clients structure and execute complex transactions across the project life cycle, including development, construction, ownership, joint ventures, M&A and financing. Elliot regularly counsels domestic and international investors on navigating the regulatory and commercial complexities of U.S. infrastructure markets.

Xio Gerlach is Senior Director of Data Center Development at Strata Clean Energy, where she leads strategy and execution for greenfield, powered, and entitled data center sites across North America. Drawing on experience across both digital infrastructure and renewable energy development, she focuses on site selection, land strategy, power procurement, interconnection, permitting, and commercial development.

Throughout her career, Xio has executed more than 2 GW of data center development. Prior to joining Strata, she held leadership roles in both data center development and renewable energy generation, providing a unique perspective on the growing convergence of energy and digital infrastructure. At Strata, she is focused on building a scalable development platform that aligns power availability, community engagement, and market demand to support the next generation of digital infrastructure.

Ken Sanocki is a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where his practice focuses on a broadrange of structured and project finance transactions in the energy sector. Ken has extensive experience in tax equity, tax credit transfers, construction financing, securitizations, and other structured financings, particularly for portfolios of distributed energy resources, and he applies this experience for clients pursuing the development of energy asset classes with commercial, industrial, and institutional customers, as well as community solar and utility-scale energy generators.

Prior to joining the firm, Ken was vice president of legal at Sunrun, where he oversaw all project finance legal matters, including tax equity financings, tax credit sale agreements, securitizations, warehouse facilities, and other complex debt facilities. At Sunrun, Ken led more than 50 tax equity financings totalling over $10 billion, drafting all necessary documents and deliverables and generally managing all legal aspects of such financings. Ken previously served as the company’s deputy general counsel, assistant general counsel, and senior counsel.

Earlier in his career, Ken was senior counsel for global structured and project finance at SunEdison and a project finance associate at Milbank.

Ken is admitted in New York. He is not yet admitted to practice in California and therefore not authorized to practice law in California.

Syed Ahmed is a Managing Director and Head of Digital Infrastructure at Apterra. He is responsible for maintaining client relationships with a purpose of originating digital infrastructure financings for Apterra in areas including data centers, broadband and mobile towers. Prior to joining Apterra, he was a Director at MetLife Investment Management for 12 years, where he was responsible for originating infrastructure debt investments globally and client management. He holds a BSc in finance from Rutgers Business School and is a CFA charterholder.

Harry Hegeman joined Foss & Company in January of 2026. As an Associate Vice President on the Energy & Infrastructure Project Finance team, Harry serves as the Commercial lead for renewable energy fund investments. Prior to joining Foss & Company, Harry served as a renewable energy tax equity investor for a Fortune 100 Corporation where he helped close +$330m of renewable energy transactions and funded over $150m in capital. Harry also spent numerous years at a large renewable energy developer serving as the financial representative on over 40 M&A and Greenfield assets spanning various technology types. Harry earned his B.A. in Economics at Yale University. 

Mr. Fiori is the Head of Business Development and Sales for EDPR NA Distributed Generation(EDPR NA DG), where he oversees the company’s offtake origination and go-to-market strategy across product types and geographies. Mr. Fiori leads a team charged with growing the company’s solar portfolio across rooftop, ground-mount, and solar canopies, with a focus on behind-the-meter and front of the meter solar projects, including community solar. 

Prior to joining EDPR NA DG, Mr. Fiori spend almost ten years at Nexamp, with roles spanning from project development, to most recently overseeing the power origination team, in his role asVice President of Energy Sales.  Mr. Fiori was charged with enrolling customers across the entirety of Nexamp’s DG portfolio of community solar and virtual net metering projects, with customers ranging from hospitals and nonprofits to global manufacturers and Fortune 500 companies.  

He holds a B.A. from Middlebury College.

Gage Kellogg brings 30 years of professional experience to the Renewable Energy Group in areas of construction, engineering, project development and financing. For the past 18 years he has been focused on renewable energy and has successfully completed utility and distributed scale photovoltaic (PV), concentrated solar (CSP) battery energy storage systems (“BESS”), EV charging stations, renewable natural gas and waste to energy projects. Over his career he has worked on projects across the Americas, Europe, MENA, India and South Africa.

Mr. Kellogg utilizes his prior operational and business development experience in his role at Partner as Managing Director of Renewable Energy Services. He is focused on the provision of renewable energy project due diligence, project development, electrical and civil solar designs, BESS design, EV Charging station designs, Independent Engineering reports, solar consulting, construction risk management services for developers, lending institutions, insurance/contract surety companies, project equity investors, and contractors. Services include contractor evaluations, plan and cost reviews, construction contract reviews, project budgeting, project accounting, project funds control, project takeover and completion work along with a full suite of Owner’s Representative services.

Tyler Yorke bridges technical energy storage solutions with commercial strategy to deliver scalable, client-focused clean energy systems. Tyler brings over 9 years of experience in renewable energy, specializing in battery energy storage systems and grid integration.

He leads the Technical Sales team at Eneon, shaping commercial strategy and delivering tailored battery energy storage solutions that enable successful project execution across diverse markets.

Sven Hodges advises clients on complex infrastructure financings across a wide range of industrial sectors. With more than 20 years of experience, Sven draws on his extensive background at major federal financing programs focused on advanced manufacturing and energy projects in the United States.

Prior to joining Mayer Brown, Sven served as Chief Counsel for Semiconductor Incentives at the US Department of Commerce. In this role, he led the office responsible for providing legal advice to the Department’s CHIPS Program Office, which administers financial incentives for semiconductor fabrication and supply chain projects in the United States. His responsibilities also included providing legal advice to the Department’s CHIPS Research and Development Office, which administers financial incentives for semiconductor R&D projects.

Emilie Flanagan is the Chief Executive Officer of Carson Power, where she leads the company’s day-to-day operations and guides its overall vision. Before founding Carson Power in March 2021, she served as Director of Project Development for Emerging Markets at Borrego Solar, leading the incubation of new solar and energy storage development businesses across the U.S., primarily distributed generation in the Mid-Atlantic and utility-scale projects in New York.

Previously, as a community solar project developer at Borrego, Emilie originated more than 200 MW (DC) of solar projects that have since reached permission to operate (PTO). Before joining Borrego, she founded and led a business in Indonesia focused on developing small-scale waste-to-energy assets. Emilie holds an MBA in Finance from HEC Paris and a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University.

Christine Guhl-Sadovy is the President of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU). Governor Phil Murphy nominated Guhl-Sadovy to serve as a Commissioner in 2023. Shortly after her appointment, Guhl-Sadovy was named President in September of that year. Prior to her current role, Guhl-Sadovy served as Cabinet Secretary for Governor Murphy, where she spearheaded the creation of the Governor’s Fellow Program, which connects recent graduates and early career professionals to positions in key policy and programmatic fields in state government. 

Before joining the Governor’s Office, President Guhl-Sadovy worked on staff at NJBPU, where she rose to the position of Chief of Staff to President Joe Fiordaliso and advanced priority initiatives related to community solar, offshore wind, and lead service line replacement. Prior to serving in the Murphy Administration, President Guhl-Sadovy held roles at the national Sierra Club, where she worked on state and federal energy policy matters, and at the Planned Parenthood Action Fund of New Jersey. 

President Guhl-Sadovy is a member of the National Association of Regulatory Commissioners serving on the Energy Resources and the Environment, and Consumers and the Public Interest committees. She is a lifelong New Jersey resident and a graduate of Rutgers University.

Kelly Friend serves as Nexamp’s Senior Vice President of Policy and Markets. In this role, she brings together the advocacy and stakeholder engagement strengths of the Policy team with the analytical expertise and market insight of the Market Strategy & Analytics team. Together, these teams identify market opportunities, open new pathways for growth, and safeguard Nexamp’s expanding portfolio of clean energy investments and customers.

Under Kelly’s leadership, the Policy & Markets function positions Nexamp as a leading industry voice and a first mover in emerging markets—ensuring strategic alignment and responsiveness to an evolving regulatory and policy landscape.

Prior to joining Nexamp, Kelly spent three years as a member of GE’s Government Affairs and Policy team in Washington D.C. She managed global government affairs for GE Hitachi, coordinating regulatory engagement and advocacy for GE’s four electricity businesses.

Kelly holds a law degree from George Mason University School of Law, a master’s degree in political science from Suffolk University, and a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of New Hampshire. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and their three sons.

Steve Kiesling is a Vice President of Development at Cypress Creek Energy, where he leads the distributed generation team. His work spans the full development cycle of DG solar and storage projects, including site acquisition, interconnection, diligence, permitting, policy engagement, and market strategy.

Steve has advanced through project development and leadership roles at Cypress Creek since joining the company, most recently being promoted to Vice President in 2025. Throughout his career, Steve and his teams have successfully developed hundreds of megawatts, with particular success in Illinois and New York. Prior to Cypress Creek, he held leadership positions at PearlX Infrastructure and SPG. He holds an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and a bachelor's degree in Finance and Economics from Tulane University. Steve is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

An advocate for expanding distributed energy resources, Steve is active in the conversation around improving utility rate design, understanding distribution cost recovery, and addressing the policy barriers to greater adoption.

Christine Guhl-Sadovy is the President of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU). Governor Phil Murphy nominated Guhl-Sadovy to serve as a Commissioner in 2023. Shortly after her appointment, Guhl-Sadovy was named President in September of that year. Prior to her current role, Guhl-Sadovy served as Cabinet Secretary for Governor Murphy, where she spearheaded the creation of the Governor’s Fellow Program, which connects recent graduates and early career professionals to positions in key policy and programmatic fields in state government. 

Before joining the Governor’s Office, President Guhl-Sadovy worked on staff at NJBPU, where she rose to the position of Chief of Staff to President Joe Fiordaliso and advanced priority initiatives related to community solar, offshore wind, and lead service line replacement. Prior to serving in the Murphy Administration, President Guhl-Sadovy held roles at the national Sierra Club, where she worked on state and federal energy policy matters, and at the Planned Parenthood Action Fund of New Jersey. 

President Guhl-Sadovy is a member of the National Association of Regulatory Commissioners serving on the Energy Resources and the Environment, and Consumers and the Public Interest committees. She is a lifelong New Jersey resident and a graduate of Rutgers University.

Teresa is a managing director in Infrastructure Investing within Goldman Sachs Asset Management. She is a member of the Asset & Wealth Management Private Infrastructure Investment Committee and serves as a board member at BrightNight, Avports and Compas. Prior to rejoining the firm, Teresa was part of the Investment Banking Division, where she advised companies in the energy sector in M&A and capital markets transactions. She initially joined the firm as an associate in 2014 and rejoined the firm in 2023 as a managing director.

Prior to joining the firm, Teresa was a managing director at EQT Partners, where she was a member of the board of directors of Kodiak Gas Services (NYSE:KGS) and Voltera Power. Prior to joining EQT Partners, she was a managing director at SCF Partners, from 2017 to 2022, having served as interim chief executive officer of Frontier Tubular Solutions between 2020 and 2021 and as a member of the board of directors of Frontier Tubular Solutions and ProDirectional. Earlier in her career, Teresa worked at Baker Hughes between 2016 and 2017, serving in key positions in the finance and technology organizations and playing a key role in the integration of GE Oil & Gas. Prior to that, she was part of the energy investment banking division at Morgan Stanley.

 Teresa earned a bachelor's degree in Architecture from the Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa – Faculdade de Arquitecture and an MBA from the Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University.

Bill Chamberlin, based in California, United States, is currently a Managing Director at KeyBanc Capital Markets. Bill Chamberlin brings experience from previous roles at KeyBanc Capital Markets and Fifth Third Securities.

Bill Chamberlin holds a 2011 - 2015 Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Finance & Economics @ Boston College. With a robust skill set that includes Visual Basic, Portfolio Management, Financial Modeling, Capital Markets, Investment Banking and more. Bill Chamberlin has 2 emails and 1 mobile phone numbers on RocketReach.

Nick Sangermano, an industry veteran with formidable energy expertise, serves as president of GS Power Partners. With 20+ years of direct experience in power, capital markets, and renewables, he is well positioned to provide strategic direction to the GS Power Partners team. In his role as president, Nick helps to shape the company’s strategic direction while overseeing commercial efforts.

Prior to GS Power Partners, Nick served in various management, finance, and operations roles, including the Managing Director of Rubicon Infrastructure Advisors and Senior Advisor to CleanCapital. Nick has raised over $3 billion of capital in solar, wind, hydro, and geothermal to advance the energy transition. He is an industry thought leader and a frequent conference speaker, has appeared on Bloomberg TV, and has been published in several industry media outlets.

Nick is a passionate advocate for sustainability and ESG. He has served as a member of the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Pioneer Award selection committee and the Waterkeeper Alliance Leadership Circle; as an advisor to the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE); and as a member of the Advisory Board for the Colorado School of Mines’ Payne Institute. Nick also served in the Royal Canadian Air Force as an officer and pilot. He received a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from McGill University and a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies from the University of Western Ontario.

Seth Zeleznik, founder and CEO of CenterNode, has more than 20 years of experience investing the private credit, private equity, and infrastructure markets. Prior to founding CenterNode in February 2026, Seth was an advisor to Apollo Global Management’s Sustainable Infrastructure Group following its acquisition of Irradiant Partners, where he served on the Management Committee and the Investment Committees for the firms private investment strategies - renewables private equity, infrastructure credit, and opportunistic credit. Prior to Irradiant, Seth was a Senior Managing Director at Kayne Anderson where he oversaw investments in the opportunistic credit and renewable energy platforms. Seth also spent more than a decade at Blackstone, where he was a Managing Director on the special situations investment team within Blackstone Alternative Asset Management. Before joining Blackstone in 2008, he began his career at Bear Stearns within the CDO structuring group.  

Seth graduated summa cum laude from the Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology at the University of Pennsylvania, earning a B.S. in Economics and a B.A.S. in Systems Engineering, with a minor in Mathematics

Daniela Shapiro is Senior Managing Director and Co-Chief Risk Officer of HASI. She is responsible for co-managing the company’s risk and portfolio management activities.

Ms. Shapiro joined HASI in 2022 and previously served as Senior Managing Director - Investments, during which she successfully grew the company’s behind-the-meter investment business.

Prior to joining HASI, she served as Chief Financial Officer at Guzman Energy and held other executive positions, including at SoCore/ENGIE. Before her corporate executive roles, she worked in the banking industry for 10 years, where she was responsible for deploying capital to energy and infrastructure assets, including tax-equity investments in renewable energy projects.

Ms. Shapiro received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from UNIFEI in Brazil and a Master of Business Administration from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Robb Jetty is CEO of REC Power, an independent power producer that develops, finances, owns and operates distributed electric generation resources nationwide. With more than 20 years of experience in clean energy, Robb has played an integral role in the development, financing, construction and operation of more than $4 billion in power projects nationwide.

Before joining REC Power in 2024, Robb served as Chief Operating Officer of Distributed Solar Development (DSD), where he led development, construction, engineering, procurement and asset management teams. Earlier in his career, he also held executive leadership roles at EDF Renewable Energy, Onyx Renewable Partners and M+W Group.

Throughout his career, Robb has developed a deep understanding of the electric power industry by gaining experience across the entire project lifecycle, from market entry and development to finance, engineering, construction and asset management.

His experience across development, operations and asset management gives him a practical perspective on how distributed generation companies scale, adapt and create value in a changing market. As CEO of REC Power, he brings first hand experience navigating the opportunities and challenges facing distributed power companies as the market continues to evolve.