Kristin Barbato is a Department Manager in Strategic Planning at Con Edison.  Her team supports corporate strategic planning, business development initiatives in renewables and smart grid, mergers and acquisitions, and regulatory strategy.

 Ms. Barbato joined Con Edison in 2002.  She managed several large system implementations while in Information Technology and Customer Operations.  Before joining Con Edison, she was a Director in Client Information Services at Precision Response Corporation (PRC), a subsidiary of USA International. She also was an IT and strategy consultant for Utilities International, Inc.  Ms. Barbato began her career as a substation reliability engineer at Florida Power & Light (FPL) after graduating with a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Cornell University.  She also holds a M.S. in Organizational Leadership from Mercy College and in May of 2008, she completed her MBA from Columbia University.  She also serves as a board member for two New York City based non-profit organizations, the Orchestra of St. Luke's and the New York Association for Energy Economics.

Ashley Brown is the Executive Director of the Harvard Electricity Policy Group (HEPG), a program of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. HEPG provides a forum for the discussion and analysis of electricity issues in the United States.

Mr. Brown has specialized in litigation in federal and state courts and before administrative bodies. He has taught in public schools and universities, frequently lectures at universities and conferences throughout the world, and publishes articles on subjects of interest to American and foreign electricity sectors.

Jeff Davis was appointed to the Missouri Public Service Commission on April 30, 2004 and was named Chairman of the Public Service Commission by Governor Blunt on January 10, 2005.  Commissioner Davis was re-appointed to a full six-year term in April 2006. He served as chairman until January 13, 2009.

Commissioner Davis serves as a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, the Missouri Universal Service Board, the Financial Research Institute Advisory Board, the Missouri Oil and Gas Council, the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) where he serves on the electric committee, the Advisory Board for the University of Missouri Delta Center for Agricultural Development in Southeast Missouri, Vice President of the Mid-America Association of Regulatory Commissioners (MARC), member of the Regional State Committee for Southwest Power Pool and a member of the Board of Directors for the Organization of MISO States (OMS).

Commissioner Davis graduated cum laude with a bachelor's of science degree in political science from Southeast Missouri State University in 1994 and received his juris doctorate degree from Washington University in 1997. Chairman Davis was admitted to the Missouri Bar in October 1997, is a member of the Missouri Bar Association and Midwest Energy Bar Association.

Edward Finley was appointed to the NC Utilities Commission on January 23, 2007 and rose to the Chairmanship on April 10, 2007.

Between 1974 and 2007, Chairman Finley practiced law in Raleigh, NC, with the firm of Joyner & Howison from 1974 to 1980 and the firm of Hunton & Williams from 1980 to 2007, after a merger of the two firms. His primary area of practice was public utility regulation.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Juris Doctor from the University of North Carolina School of Law.

Duke Energy, one of the largest power companies in the United States, supplies and delivers electricity to approximately 4 million customers in the Carolinas and the Midwest. The company also distributes natural gas in Ohio and Kentucky. Its commercial power and international businesses operate diverse power generation assets in North America and Latin America, including a growing renewable energy portfolio. Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Duke Energy is a Fortune 500 company traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol DUK.

Craig Glazer serves as the Vice President--Federal Government Policy for PJM Interconnection. In this capacity, Mr. Glazer coordinates all of PJM’s regulatory and legislative policies before Congress, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commissions, the United States Department of Energy and other federal agencies.   PJM operates the largest competitive wholesale electricity market in the world and serves over 9% of the United States population. Mr. Glazer heads PJM’s Washington, D.C. office.

Prior to coming to PJM, Mr. Glazer served as Commissioner and Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio. As the longest-serving Chairman of the Ohio Commission in its history, Mr. Glazer oversaw Ohio’s move toward deregulation of its telephone, natural gas, transportation and electric industries.

Mr. Glazer served as CEO of the agency which operated with over 300 employees and a budget of $25 million. He also chaired the state’s Siting Board and served as a member of the Governor’s Cabinet. Mr. Glazer remains extremely active on national electricity issues. He frequently testified before Congress and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on development of Regional Transmission Organizations and the needs of the marketplace.  Mr. Glazer served as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, Chairman of its International Relations Committee and a member of its Electricity and Energy Resources Committees. He also chaired the National Council on Competition in the Electric Industry, an interagency collaborative which brought together FERC, the state PUCs, the US Department of Energy, the US EPA and the National Council of State Legislatures. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Northeast Midwest Institute, a bipartisan research arm of the Northeast and Midwest region’s Congressional delegations.

Mr. Glazer is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the Vanderbilt University School of Law.

Darrell Hanson was appointed by Governor Chet Culver to fill an unexpired term on the Iowa Utilities Board on November 9, 2007. His term runs until April 30, 2013.

Hanson is a National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) member and serves on the NARUC Committee on Energy Resources and the Environment. Hanson serves as the IUB representative to the Advisory Council of the Iowa Energy Center.  He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Organization of MISO States.

Hanson graduated with High Distinction from the University of Iowa in 1976. He received a Masters Degree in political science from the University of Northern Iowa in 1991, with additional graduate study in economics.

A native of northeast Iowa, Hanson represented Delaware County and surrounding areas in the State Legislature for eight terms from 1979 through 1994. While serving in the Legislature he also taught economics and American history for Upper Iowa University and political science at the University of Northern Iowa. In 1995, he served as Senior Director of Transportation and Economic Development for the Iowa Northland Regional Council of Governments based in Waterloo. From 1996 to 2007, he was the County Extension Education Director for the Iowa State University Extension office in Delaware County.

Hanson has been a member of the Manchester City Council, Manchester Area Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, Delaware County Economic Development Commission, and Manchester Board of Adjustment. He chaired the Manchester Enterprise Zone Commission from 2001 to 2007, and chaired the Manchester Local Access Cable Television Committee from 1997 to 2007. He has received Manchester's Distinguished Service Award and the Delaware County Friend of Agriculture award. Hanson was a member of the Iowa Environmental Council (IEC) Board of Directors from 1994 to 2004 and IEC Vice President in 1997-98. He served as a member of the Iowa Environmental Protection Commission from 2000 to 2007, including three terms as commission chair.

Since joining Westar Energy in 1981 as an engineer, Kelly Harrison has held a variety of positions srelated to planning, forecasting and regulatory affairs. He was senior director, restructuring and rates before being named executive director, then vice president, regulatory in 2001.

In March 2006, he was named vice president, transmission operations and environmental services. He received his bachelor of science in electrical engineering, master of science in engineering management and master of business administration degrees from Wichita State University.

He is on the Marketing Advisory Board at the University of Kansas, the RMEL Board and the Board of Trustees for the Kansas Chapter of The Nature Conservancy. He is also on the Members Committee for the SPP and on the SPP Finance Committee

Kenny Jackson serves as vice president - Regulatory Matters for SCANA Corporation.  In this capacity, he is responsible for the Company's rates and regulatory functions, including rate design, cost of service, fuel cost recovery and rate administration. For the past 31 years, he has served in various professional and leadership positions within SCANA and South Carolina Electric and Gas Company with over twenty years in the electric and gas regulatory departments.          
Kenny is a graduate of the University of South Carolina with a BS degree in Finance.

Sonny Popowsky has served as the Consumer Advocate of Pennsylvania since 1990 and has worked at the Office of Consumer Advocate (OCA) since 1979.  He was the President of the National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates (NASUCA) from 1996 to 1998 and was previously Chairman of the NASUCA Electric Committee.  He served on the Board of Trustees of the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) from 1997 to 2001 and served on the NERC Stakeholders Committee from 2001 to 2006.  He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the North American Energy Standards Board (NAESB) and the Keystone Energy Board.

In 1988, he briefed and argued the landmark United States Supreme Court case of Duquesne Light Company v. Barasch, in which the Court upheld the position of the OCA that two Pennsylvania utilities had no constitutional right to charge consumers for the costs of four cancelled nuclear power plants.

Mr. Popowsky graduated Cum Laude from Yale University and received his J.D. Cum Laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he served as an editor of the Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif.

Rob Schain is President of Regulatory Research Associates (RRA), a subsidiary of SNL Financial. In this capacity he oversees RRA’s research covering public utility regulation and participates in the firm’s equity security analyses of major electric utilities. Mr. Schain joined RRA upon the company’s formation in 1982.

Mr. Schain began his career at the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities as a Research Economist specializing in rate-of-return issues. He is a member of the Wall Street Utility Group and the Association for Investment Management and Research, and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. Mr. Schain is a graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo and received his M.B.A. from The Ohio State University in 1980.

Dr. Alan R. Schriber currently serves as chairman of the PUCO. He was appointed chairman by Gov. Bob Taft in 1999 and reappointed by Taft in 2004 and Gov. Ted Strickland in 2007and 2009. Chairman Schriber also served as a PUCO commissioner from 1983-1989 as appointed by Gov. Richard F. Celeste.

As chairman of the PUCO, Schriber is the head of a 400-person agency that works to oversee the regulation of electric, natural gas, telecommunications, water, and commercial transportation in the state of Ohio. Additionally, Schriber is the chairman of the Ohio Power Siting Board that reviews, evaluates, and approves the siting of electric generation plants and electric and natural gas transmission lines. He was appointed by Gov. Taft to the state of Ohio Security Task Force, and was a member of the United States-Canada Power Outage Task Force that investigated the causes behind the August 2003 blackout.

Chairman Schriber regularly testifies before the Ohio General Assembly on various utility issues and legislation. He has also testified before the United States Congress on energy issues.

In addition to his service to the PUCO, Chairman Schriber has a number of other professional accomplishments. He was an assistant professor of economics at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, from 1977-1983, owner and president of ARS Broadcasting Corp., in Cincinnati from 1989-1997, and served as a personal investments manager from 1997-1999.

Chairman Schriber earned a B.S. in economics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, a M.S. in economics from Miami University, Oxford, and a doctorate in economics from Indiana University, Bloomington.

Spellman's investment experience crosses all asset classes, types of analyses (top-down, bottom-up, fundamental, and quantitative), and investment philosophies (value, growth, large, and small stocks, and long-term and short-term approaches). His past titles include analyst, portfolio manager, and director of research. Spellman has worked at public and private buy-side firms including the State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio ($50 billion in assets) and Members Capital Advisors ($14 billion in institutional and mutual fund assets), a private equity valuation consulting firm Capital Valuation Group, and the sell-side firm International Strategy & Investment Group (ranked #1 in the US for macro research). He consults in the area of behavioral finance, a field that combines psychology (the real world) with finance (often a theoretical world). He also provides traditional and non-traditional ROE testimony for contested rate cases for utility companies.

Spellman is the director of the Certificate in Investment Management program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a professor at IE University on Madrid. Previously, he was a director of the reputable Applied Security Analysis Program (ASAP) (www.uwasap.org) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The ASAP is one of the original student investment programs (SIPs). He also taught the SIP at The Ohio State University and is involved with the SIP at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. He has also taught at Durham University (in the UK). He has taught courses in forensic accounting, CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) review, financial management, the stock market, and behavioral finance. 

Spellman has a PhD (2009) in behavioral finance (from Durham University) undertaken under the advisement of some of the top people in the field in the world. He earned a Masters in Science degree in finance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1994), a Bachelors in Science degree in finance (with a minor in mathematics) from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse (1992), and he is a CFA Charterholder since 1997.

Mr. Watts represents clients on a wide range of public utility and energy issues, including federal and state regulation of electrical and natural gas utilities and non-utility generation (NUG) projects.

His practice includes a focus on multi-state energy regulatory aspects of energy transactions and projects, including mergers and acquisitions, the development, financing, construction and operation of energy facilities and electric transmission line siting.

Mr. Watts practices before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the State Corporation Commission of Virginia, and regulatory commissions of other states, including the North Carolina Utilities Commission, Public Service Commission of West Virginia, Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control, Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, Michigan Public Service Commission, Wisconsin Public Service Commission and Kentucky State Board on Electric Generation and Transmission Siting.

He served on the firm's team of resource development advisors to the Republic of Kazakhstan and on another team advising the Republic of Bulgaria on energy concessions and power sector privatization and restructuring.

Mr. Watts has served as vice chair of the Energy Bar Association's Non-Utility Generation Committee and president of its Southern Chapter, and as chair of the Board of Governors of the Virginia State Bar's Administrative Law Committee. He is a member of the American Bar Association's Section of Public Utility, Communications and Transportation Law and Section of Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Law. He has been listed in Woodward/White, Inc.'s The Best Lawyers in America since 1993 and has been named a “Virginia Super Lawyer” by Law & Politics magazine.

He has spoken on energy regulatory issues at seminars and conferences sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, American Gas Association, Electric Power Research Institute, NARUC's Natural Conference of Regulatory Attorneys, Eastern Mineral Law Foundation, National Regulatory Conference, McGraw-Hill's Independent Power Report and Electrical World, Infocast, Center for Business Intelligence, Institute for International Research, EXNET, Public Utilities Fortnightly and the University of Richmond School of Law. He is also author of the chapter on "Distributor Gas Supply" in Matthew Bender's treatise Regulation of the Gas Industry and has lectured at the University of Virginia Law School and University of Richmond School of Law on federal energy regulation under the Natural Gas Act and Federal Power Act.

Mr. Watts earned a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and a B.A. from Washington & Lee University.

Mr. Zarumba is a Director in the Energy Practice's Litigation, Regulatory, and Markets group. With 24 years of experience performing economic, regulatory and financial analysis, Mr. Zarumba specializes in theoretical and applied techniques of electricity cost and pricing analysis, market analysis, and asset valuation. Mr. Zarumba has testified as an expert witness before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities, the Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission, the Illinois Commerce Commission, the Wisconsin Public Service Commission, and a number of other venues including city councils.

He earned a B.S. in Economics from Illinois State University and a M.A. in Economics from DePaul University.