The Climate Champions

Bryce Yonker, Founder, Executive Director & CEO of Grid Forward, a non-profit organization that takes a collaborative approach to bring together utilities, solution providers, government agencies, regulators, advocates, and others to create a modern grid.

Terry Oliver was the first Chief Technology Innovation Officer at Bonneville Power Administration where he was honored with BPA's highest award, the Meritorious Service Award. After a fantastic adventure of a career, Terry's is now retired, but not tired.

Jessica Toth, Executive Director at Solana Center for Environmental Innovation, the nonprofit organization that brings environmental solution design, education, and consulting services to businesses and communities at every corner of the San Diego region.

George Ashton III, Managing Director of Strategic Investments at LISC, the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, Founder of Hope Impact Investments, and co-founder of Sol Systems. Forging resilient and inclusive communities of opportunity across America!

Julia McLaughlin, VP of Commercial Origination at Cogentrix, is also a writer and novelist. For Scientific American, she wrote Increasing Irrelevance of Climate Change Denial: Even if you don’t accept the science, you’ll need to deal with the consequences.

Josh Wong, Founder & CEO of Opus One Solutions, is a Smart Grid Innovator focused on grid modernization and strategic development. He's a visionary and business model innovator who delivers results and is a believer and practitioner of win/win solutions.

Patrick Lee, President & CEO of PXiSE Energy Solutions & VP of Infrastructure & Technology, Sempra Energy, has over 30 years of energy industry experience in electric system planning, design, construction, operations, markets, renewables & technology RD&D

Wade Troxell is the Mayor of Fort Collins, Colorado, on the Dept of Mechanical Engineering faculty at Colorado State University, and an internationally recognized expert in the areas of intelligent robotics and intelligent control of distributed systems.

Daniel Palken is a conservative outreach fellow with Citizen’s Climate Lobby. He’s graduating with a PhD in Physics, doing research on Quantum measurement and statistical analysis techniques for dark matter detection at University of Colorado at Boulder.

Julia Hamm, CEO of The Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA) - envisioning a carbon-free energy system by facilitating the electric power industry’s transition to a clean and modern energy future through education, research, standards, and collaboration.