Peter Freed is the former Director of Energy Strategy at Meta. While at Meta, his team worked to advance grid decarbonization and reliability by creating solutions that overcome systemwide obstacles while also meeting Meta’s energy and net-zero goals. He worked in close partnership with large buyers, utilities, regulators, policy makers, developers, technology providers, and other market participants around the country to accelerate the transition to the zero-emission grid of the future. He was a founding board member of the Clean Energy Buyers Association. He is the founding partner of Near Horizon Group. Prior to Meta, he served as Director of TerraPass for more than 6 years, analyzing and implementing sustainable energy projects for a broad range of clients. He holds a BS in Earth Systems from Stanford University.

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As Chief Product Officer and AES Next President, Chris Shelton leads a team addressing the energy industry’s biggest challenges by turning transformative ideas from concept into reality. He is responsible for developing and identifying new solutions to best meet our customers’ diverse needs, enabling us to accelerate a cleaner energy future for everyone.Throughout his career with AES, Chris has driven transformation in our global businesses through innovative business models and technologies, including energy efficiency, digital customer engagement, robotics, electric-mobility, and new clean energy solutions including wind, solar, and battery energy storage. He has built strategic solutions and capabilities into AES, including the acquisition and integration of our innovative high-growth solar team.Building on the broad industry expertise across AES, Chris pioneered the development of Lithium-ion battery storage for the electric industry by applying the technology to power markets for the first time in 2008 and was instrumental in the formation of Fluence, our joint venture with Siemens, the world leader in energy storage solutions and technologies. Under Chris’ leadership, AES has continued to support the development of scalable ecosystems for the clean energy transition. These include Uplight, the leading customer action platform for utilities and 5B, the prefab solar PV product delivering faster, higher density solar projects for customers. Chris is a member of the Boards of Fluence, Uplight and 5B.Chris received a bachelor’s degree in physics from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and completed executive certificate programs at Georgetown University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He holds several patents in battery storage, renewables integration, and electric vehicle and distributed energy resources management.

A Principal on AI Fund’s build team, Abid works with our Founders in Residence and Venture Advisors to validate potential business ideas and rapidly build new companies.Before joining AI Fund, Abid had the privilege of supporting the United States federal government in its emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic. He served as a strategic advisor to BARDA, the biomedical innovation unit within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), driving external innovation models to support national security. Abid was responsible for launching the organization’s first startup studio, aimed at creating new companies at the intersection of healthcare and national security. He also designed and launched numerous accelerator and incubator programs, working with participating founders on all aspects of their company build.Prior to BARDA, Abid was an entrepreneur himself, leading product and business/finance functions at two startups. At ZappRx, a venture-backed digital health startup, he led product development from 0 to 1—joining pre-revenue and building it through its acquisition by Veradigm, an AllScripts company (NASDAQ: MDRX). As a founding team member at ByteCubed, an enterprise SaaS company, Abid played a key role in driving the company’s growth to $35MM+ ARR, leading to its acquisition by Intellibridge.

Chase's leadership experience at Crusoe has included building a high functioning team of more than 300 professionals encompassing engineering, technology, business development, manufacturing, finance, law, operations and administration. Chase has also held key roles in more than $600 million of fundraising with venture, project and credit capital investors for Crusoe.

Previously Chase was a quantitative researcher and trader at Jump Trading and GETCO, where he developed and managed a portfolio of algorithmic trading strategies. Chase holds undergraduate degrees in math and physics from MIT and a masters degree in computer science from Stanford, where he specialized in artificial intelligence. He is currently on the board of CSforAll, an organization whose mission is to make high-quality computer science an integral part of the educational experience of all K-12 students and teachers. As a personal interest, Chase has climbed five of the “seven summits” including Mt. Everest.

Helena Fu is the Director of the Office of Critical and Emerging Technologies. She previously served as Director for Technology and National Security at the White House National Security Council, where she was responsible for advancing strategic technology cooperation with allies and partners. She has previously served as Director of International Science and Technology Cooperation and Trusted Research for the Office of Science at the Department of Energy, and at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where she was responsible for leading development of research security policy, culminating in National Security Presidential Memorandum on United States Government-Supported Research and Development National Security Policy (NSPM-33). From 2012-2018 Helena served at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, first as a Deputy Director and later as Energy Attaché and Director of the Department of Energy China Office, where she was responsible for leading a team to advance U.S. security and economic interests in energy, science and technology, and nuclear security and nonproliferation. Before government service, Helena managed award-winning environmental planning projects across Asia at AECOM, and supported Federal and State environmental, energy, and transportation policy and programs at ICF International. Helena holds a Master’s degree in Environmental and Natural Resource Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and a B.S. in Urban Studies and Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Kevin Jones received his Ph.D. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University in 2013 as a Harry Lynde Bradley Fellow where he studied synchrophasor technology, wide area measurement systems, and linear state estimation. Kevin developed the open source Linear State Estimator, now commercialized by several industry vendors, used for improving resiliency of real-time transmission control centers. He also developed the Analysis On Demand (ANODE) platform at Dominion Energy, increasing the analytic throughput of the outage planning team by more than 1000x. He championed Dominion Energy’s synchrophasor data program over the last decade and now oversees an organization of more than two-dozen engineers who focus data-driven operations support and engineering analysis of time-series sensor data from the electric transmission grid.

Page Crahan is general manager of Tapestry, X’s moonshot for the electric grid. Tapestry is focused on creating highly accurate simulations of the grid to forecast how it will behave from milliseconds to decades ahead. Tapestry is also creating tools for governments, utilities, energy developers and major energy users to help them build, manage and operate grids dominated by renewable and other clean energy technologies.

Before joining X, Page held roles as a go-to-market and commercial leader and advisor at several start-ups, two of which attained ‘unicorn’ status: Sunrun in rooftop solar energy in the U.S., and Konfio in financial services in Mexico. She was previously co-CEO and founder of Clarus Power, a venture-backed residential solar customer acquisition platform.

Page is an expert in business model innovation, customer acquisition, product design, and scaling hyper-growth teams. She was recognized as one of the top 50 Climate Tech Operators in the 2021 Climate Draft. She is an advisor and angel investor with her firm Persistent Ventures and she is a limited partner in Powerhouse Ventures. Page is a co-inventor of several U.S. Patents in the energy domain. She earned a certificate from the Stanford GSB Summer Institute for General Management and holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Santa Clara University.

Sayles is responsible for the origination, diligence, and execution of technology-enabled infrastructure transactions.Sayles was previously a partner at Alerion Partners, an operationally-focused growth equity fund that he joined in 2010. At Alerion, he led control and non-control investments in, and sat on the boards of, companies across a range of industries.Prior to Alerion, Sayles co-founded and led a mobile software company in the location-based application space. Sayles began his career at Lazard in the investment banking restructuring group, where he advised companies throughout their bankruptcy proceedings, recapitalizations, asset sales, and other M&A efforts.Sayles graduated with honors from Harvard College with an AB in Economics.Sayles is joined by Bernie, his Goldendoodle, who somehow maintains a strong office reputation despite regularly falling asleep at work.

Prior to PingThings, Sean built a small data science and analytics consultancy that served multiple industries and quickly grew to over a million dollars a year in revenue. Previously, he bootstrapped an email analytics company to over $500K in ARR and served as the director or research and an instructor at Manhattan Prep (acquired by Kaplan). Prior, he was a senior scientist at the JHU Applied Physics Laboratory for over a decade, where he focused on machine learning, high-performance and cloud-based computing, and anomaly detection. He has undergraduate degrees in honors mathematics (cum laude) and honors electrical engineering (magna cum laude) from the University of Maryland College Park and graduate degrees in biomedical engineering (summa cum laude) from Johns Hopkins University and business (with Distinction) from Oxford University.

Angela Kassahun is currently the Director of Policy & Market Development at Utilidata. Prior to this role, Angela served as the Executive Policy Manager at the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission. Angela also has experience as a Policy Fellow at the City of Philadelphia and as a Co-Executive Director at The Energy Co-op. Angela holds a Master of Public Administration from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts from Temple University.

Josh Wong is the Founder and CEO of ThinkLabs AI, a specialized AI company empowering critical industries and infrastructure with trustworthy AI towards global energy sustainability. Josh brings over 20 years of experience in cleantech, including utility grid modernization, solar, storage, microgrids, hydrogen, and DERMS. Josh was formerly founder and CEO of Opus One Solutions, rated #1 Grid DERMS by Guidehouse, and General Manager of Grid Orchestration at General Electric.

Mark Waclawiak is the Senior Manager of Operational Performance for Electric Operations inAvangrid Networks, consisting of the Data Science and Analytics, Reliability Engineering, andKPI/Dashboard Reporting departments. He has a BSc in Electrical Engineering from the Universityof Texas at San Antonio and a BA in English from the University of Texas at Austin.

Amanda has 20 years of experience in energy project finance, development, and the procurement of renewable and traditional energy generation. In her current role, Amanda manages power procurement, energy policy and energy infrastructure development for Google’s global data centers. As part of her role, Amanda leads the energy market development and execution of Google’s 24/7 Carbon Free Energy program, and has secured over 7 gigawatts of renewable energy globally.

Prior to joining Google, Amanda was the director of investment structuring at Macquarie Infrastructure Company (MIC)’s Renewable Energy subsidiary, where she was responsible for sourcing, diligencing, and structuring utility and distributed renewable energy. Earlier in her career, Amanda placed over $140 million of solar tax equity investments at Chevron Energy Solutions, and developed utility scale solar projects at Agile Energy.

She was a senior investment banking analyst at Merrill Lynch & Co., and began her career at General Electric Energy Financial Services where she managed energy project financings and portfolio divestitures.

Amanda holds an MBA from The Wharton School of Business and a BA in Business Administration with Honors from Boston University’s School of Management.

Stephen Lacey is the co-founder and executive editor of Latitude Media. He helps shape editorial coverage, live events, and creative partnerships. He’s a veteran journalist, editor, and producer who’s been running news teams and making audio programming about the clean energy transition for nearly two decades.

Maeve Allsup is Latitude Media’s founding reporter. She was previously a tech reporter at Morning Brew, where she covered tech policy and regulation, as well as the EV industry. Earlier in her career she spent several years as a legal reporter, covering California’s courts for Bloomberg Industries, where she broke news about Activision Blizzard, Google, Uber, and others.

Before moving to California, Maeve lived in Santiago, Chile for several years where she created content for an international education company and worked as a freelance journalist.

Maeve studied International Relations at American University in Washington, D.C., where she specialized in environmental policy and conflict resolution. She is based in San Francisco.