2014 CPU Courses/Conferences

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Public Officials Attendees: Spring 2014

Name	Title	Public Agency	Online Presentation
James Alarid	Deputy Utilities Manager	County of Los Alamos
Hon Shari Feist Albrecht	Chair	Kansas Corporation Commission
Hon Abdullah Alshehri	Governor	Electricity & Cogeneration Regulatory Authority (ECRA)
Allan Arlow	Administrative Law Judge	Oregon Public Utility Commission
Tonya Baer	Public Counsel	Texas Office of Public Utility Council
Hon Eduardo Balbis	Commissioner	Florida Public Service Commission
Hon John Betkowski	Vice Chairman	Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority
Drew Bolin	Chief	Colorado Public Utilities Commission
Hon David Boyd	Chairman	Minnesota Public Utilities Commission
Hon Lawrence Brenner	Commissioner	Maryland Public Service Commission
Hon Julie Brown	Commissioner	Florida Public Service Commission	Declining Consumption: Regulatory Strategies and Ratemaking Methods of the FPSC
Hon John Burke	Member	Vermont Public Service Board
Hon Alaina Burtenshaw	Chairman	Nevada Public Utilities Commission
Hon. Kirk Bushman	Commissioner	Montana Public Service Commission
Hon Eric Callisto	Chairman	Public Utility Commission of Wisconsin
Hon Tony Clark	Commissioner	FERC
Hon Mignon Clyburn	Commissioner	Federal Communication Commission
Amy D'Alessandro	Legal Counsel	Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission
Hon David Danner	Chairman	Washington Utilities and Transportation Committee
Susan D'Auteuil	Administrative Law Judge	Arkansas Public Service Commission
Hon Valerie Espinoza	Commissioner	New Mexico Public Regulation Commission
John Evans	Small Business Advocate	Pennsylvania Dept. of Community & Economic Development
Bryce Freeman	Administrator	Wyoming Office of Consumer Advocate
Marguerite Friedlander	Administrative Law Judge	Washington Utilities & Transportation Commission
Gail Fuller	Supervisor	Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority
Hon Roland George	Member	NEB Board-Canada
Michele Gregg	Director, External Relations	Texas Office of Public Utility Council
Hon. Cecil Gutierrez	Mayor: Loveland, Colorado		City of Loveland: Water, Wastewater, and Electric
Hon Ben Hall	Commissioner	New Mexico Public Regulation Commission
Hon Gary Hanson	Chairman	South Dakota Public Utilities Commission
Jacquelynne Hernandez	Member, Technical Staff	Sandia National Labs
Hon Colette Honorable	NARUC President	Arkansas Public Service Commission
Hon John (Butch) Howard	Commissioner	South Carolina Public Service Commission
Hon Libby Jacobs	Chair	Iowa Utilities Board
Hon Betty Ann Kane	Chairman	DC Public Service Commission
J.R. Kelly	Public Counsel	Florida Office of Public Counsel
Cholla Khoury	Assistant Attorney General	New Mexico Attorney General's Office
Hon Paul Kjellander	President	Idaho Public Utilities Commission
Hon Bob Lake	Commissioner	Montana Public Service Commission
Hon. Sherina Maye	Commissioner	Illinois Commerce Commission
Hon Carolene Mays	Commissioner	Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission
Hon Karen L. Montoya	Commissioner	New Mexico Public Regulation Commission
Alan Nault	Utility Rate Analyst	Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission
Hon Donna Nelson	Chairman	Public Utility Commission of Texas
Hon Chris Nelson	Vice Chair	South Dakota Public Utilities Commission
Hon Erin O'Connell-Diaz	Commissioner Emeritus	Illinois Commerce Commission
Hon John Quackenbush	Chairman	Michigan Public Service Commission
Hon Paul Roberti	CPU Chairman & Commissioner	Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission
Mark Schuling	Consumer Advocate	Iowa Office of Consumer Advocate
Hon Barry Smitherman	Chairman	Railroad Commission of Texas
Hon Stephen Stoll	Commissioner	Missouri Public Service Commission
Carolyn Tanner	General Counsel	Public Utilities Commission of Nevada
Hon Sheila Tipton	Commissioner	Iowa Utilities Board
Hon Nick Wagner	Commissioner	Iowa Utilities Board
Hayley Williamson	Administrative Attorney	Public Utilities Commission of Nevada
Hon Stan Wise	Commissioner	Georgia Public Service Commission
Hon Tom Wright	Commissioner	Kansas Corporation Commission

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Industry Attendees: Spring 2014

Name	Title	Industry	Online Presentation
Pauline M. Ahern	Principal	AUS Consultants
William Akley	SVP, US Gas Operations	National Grid	National Grid's Response to Sandy
Tom Alley	VP, Generation	EPRI	Challenges Facing Power Generation
Dawn Anaiscourt	Director, CPUC Regulatory Affairs	Southern California Edison
William Ashburn	Director, Pricing & Financial Analysis	TECO Energy
Michelle Barnaby	Senior Energy Industry Analyst	FERC
Bryan Batson	Senior VP	AGL Resources
Rob Berntsen	VP, Policy & Public Affairs	MISO
Lewis Binswanger	VP, Regulatory Affairs	Nicor Gas
Noel Black	Director, Federal Regulatory Affairs	Southern Company
Chrissy Borskey	Executive, Government Affairs & Policy, Distributed Power	General Electric
Ben Boyd	Regulatory Liaison	SGIP
Jennifer Brooks Hutchinson	Senior Counsel	National Grid USA
Lori Burrows	Senior Staff Attorney	Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation
Fred Butler	President	Butler Advisory Services
Jolynn Butler	Exec Director	AT&T
Sandy Butterfield	Chief Technology Officer and Founder	Boulder WindPower	Wind Energy Technology: The future
Sandra Byrd	VP, Public Affairs	Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation
Hiram Camp	Council Member	Gridwise Architecture Council
Mark Carpenter	SVP, T&D Grid Ops	Oncor
Scott Carter	SVP, Commercial Operations & Chief Regulatory Office	AGL Resources	Addressing Declining Consumption: Natural Gas Sector
Thomas Champion	Managing Partner	T Champion Consulting LLC
Susan Clark	Partner	Radey Law Firm
Bruce Connell	Regulatory Counsel	ConocoPhillips Company
Doug Cooley	Director, Government Affairs	Comcast
Debra G. Coy	Principal	Svanda & Coy Consulting	As the Revenue Tide Falls: Regulatory strategies and ratemaking mechanisms to deal with declining consumption patterns in gas, electric & water
Calvin Crowder	President	Electric Transmission Texas, LLC
Tom Darin	Western State Policy Director	American Wind Energy Association
Ron Darnell	Senior VP	PNM Resources
Dylan D'Ascendis	Principal	AUS Consultants
Phil Dion	SVP, Public Policy and Customer Solutions	UNS Energy Corporation	The Wires Industry: Who Will Pay for Tomorrow's Grid?
Dennis Doll	President & CEO	Middlesex Water Company	Middlesex Water: Disaster Mitigation Examples
Jeff Dygert	Executive Director, Public Policy	AT&T Services
Albert Ernst	Attorney at Law	Dykema Gossett PLLC
Katherine Farroba	State Government Affairs	Verizon
Steve Fleishman	Managing Director, Senior Utilities Analyst	Wolfe Research
Jim FLetcher	Vice President	Georgia Power Company
Peter Frost	Director, Regulatory Affairs	ConocoPhillips
Brent Gale	Sr. Vice President	MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company	Declining Consumption Patterns
Mark Garrett	Principal	Garrett Group LLC
Robert Gee	President	Gee Strategies Group LLC
Paul Genoa	Sr. Director, Policy	Nuclear Energy Institute
Matthew Gerst	Director, State Regulatory	CTIA-The Wireless Association
Miller Girvin	VP, Communications	The Hawthorn Group
Joe Gillan	President	Gillan Associates
Mike Grable	President	Lone Star Transmission LLC
Kathy Grant	Consultant	kathygrant.com
Charles D. Gray	Executive Director	NARUC
David Hadley	Consultant to President	NIPSCO
Charles Harder	Sr. Director of Reg. Policy & External Relations	CenterPoint Energy
Stacy Hartman	Director, Federal Public Policy	CenturyLink	Disaster Preparedness and Business Continuity
Chris Hobson	Chief Environmental Officer	Southern Company	The Technologies of the Future
Pamela Hollick	VP Regulatory	tw telecom
Barry Howell	Director	Entergy Texas, Inc.
Hank Hultquist	VP, Federal Regulatory	AT&T
Matthew Jaramillo	Administrator	Public Service Company of New Mexico
Selby Jones	Associate	AUS Consultants
Gregg Kantor	AGA Chairman & President and CEO	NW Natural
Joe Kelliher	Executive VP for Federal Regulatory Affairs	NextEra	Preparing for the Next “Storm of the Century”
Thomas King	Executive Director, US President, National Grid	National Grid	Connecting the US Energy Network to the 21st Century
Bob Koenig	Director of Regulatory Relations	Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co
Jeffrey Larsen	VP, Regulation and Government Affairs	Rocky Mountain Power
Roy Lathrop	Director, State Government Affairs	NCTA
Erik Lindhjam	Software Product Line Leader	GE Oil & Gas - Measurement & Control
Emmanuel Lopez	Utility Accounting Manager	PNM Resources
Theo MacGregor	Principal	Democracy & Regulation
Tom Maquire	SVP, National Operations Support	Verizon	Verizon's Network Evolution
Brandon Marzo	Partner	Troutman Sanders LLP
Don Mason	President	All American Energy Partners, LLC
Robert Mayer	VP, Industry & State Affairs	USTelecom Association
Matthew McCaffree	Director, State Regulatory Relations	NAWC
Paul McKaig	Vice President	Oncor Electric Delivery
Christine McLeod	Project Manager	Southern California Edison
Will McNamara	Senior Manager	West Monroe Partners
Johnny Montoya	Director, Regulatory Affairs	CenturyLink
Peter Nelson	Chairman of the Board	California Water Service Group
Fred Newton	Senior Investment Officer	UNUM
Kelly Norwood	VP State & Federal Regulation	Avista Corporation
Jerry Oppenheim	Principal	Democracy and Regulation	The Wires Industry: Financial implications of aggressive renewable energy policies
Hilda Pinnix-Ragland	VP-Corporate Public Affairs	Duke Energy
Kevin Queen	Regulatory Affairs Manager	Georgia Power
Deanna Rodriguez	Vice President	Entergy Texas, Inc.
Kyle Rogers	Vice President	Government Relations American Gas Association
Don Rowlett	Managing Director, Regulatory Affairs	Oklahoma Gas and Electric
Raymond Sandoval	SF Community Relations	Public Service Company of New Mexico
Robert Schain	Senior VP, RRA	SNL Financial
Gary Shambaugh	Principal & Director	AUS Consultants
Frank Shambo	VP Regulatory & Legal Affairs	NIPSCO
Patrick Shore	Senior Attorney	Oklahoma Gas & Electric
Walt Shumate	Principal	Shumate & Associates
Colleen Smith	Senior Advisor, Regulatory & Environmental Policy	Capital Power Corp.
Kristin Smith	VP, General Counsel and Regulatory Affairs	SEMCO ENERGY Gas Company
Natalie Smith	Executive Director, Regulatory Management	NextEra Energy Transmission
Wade Smith	President & Chief Operating Officer	AEP Texas
Marc Spitzer	Partner	Steptoe & Johnson LLP
Randa Stephenson	Director, Regulatory Strategy & Planning	Lone Star Transmission
Elizabeth Stipnieks	Director, Regulatory Relations	EEI
Susan Story	Chief Financial Officer	American Water
Jim Sullivan	President	The Sullivan Group
Paul Suskie	Executive VP & General Counsel	Southwest Power Pool
David Svanda	Consultant	Svanda & Coy Consulting
Judith Talavera	Director	AEP Texas
Allan Thoms	Principal	Allan Thoms Consulting LLC
Barbara Tyran	Director	EPRI
Paul Vasington	Director, State Public Policy	Verizon
Scott Vogt	VP Regulatory Projects	ComEd
Joan Walker-Ratliff	Director, Regulatory Affairs	Phillips 66
Joseph Wathen	VP, Support Services	Pepco Holdings, Inc.
Raquel Webster	--	National Grid
William Welzant	Manager, Energy Supplier Services	Baltimore Gas & Electric Company
Esther Whieldon	Senior Reporter-Electricity
Simon Whitelock	VP, Regulatory & External Affairs	ITC Holdings Corp	The Wires Industry: Who Will Pay for Tomorrow's Grid?
Dena Wiggins	President-Elect	Natural Gas Supply Association
Christopher Winland	Manager	ITC Great Plains