Keynote Speaker

SCOTT BOOSE

CLEAResult Chief Executive Officer

As an accomplished senior executive with a long track record of building successful, customer-centric, people-focused businesses in the energy industry, Scott knows that happy customers start with happy employees.

Even while working from his kitchen counter, Scott’s leadership continues to embolden CLEAResult’s pursuit of innovative solutions to change the way people use energy.

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Keynote Speaker

PATTI POPPE

President and Chief Executive Officer of CMS Energy Corporation and Consumers Energy Company

Patti Poppe is President and Chief Executive Officer of CMS Energy, based in Jackson, Michigan, and its principal subsidiary, Consumers Energy, Michigan’s largest utility and the nation’s fourth-largest combination utility. Consumers Energy provides electricity and natural gas to 6.7 million of Michigan’s 10 million Lower Peninsula residents. She was elected to this position in July 2016.

Poppe held a variety of automotive management positions and served as power plant director at DTE Energy, based in Detroit, Michigan, before returning to her hometown of Jackson to join Consumers Energy in 2011.

Poppe earned a master’s degree in management from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and received a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in industrial engineering from Purdue University.

As President and Chief Executive Officer, Poppe has focused on connecting the company more closely with its customers and adapting lean operating system principles throughout the utility.

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Keynote Speaker

JOHN WOOLARD

Chief Executive Officer of Meridian Energy and Senior Operating Partner of Activate Capital

Mr. Woolard has more than 20 years of experience as an executive in the energy technology sector. Mr. Woolard previously served as the President and CEO of BrightSource Energy, where he led the development of the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in California’s Mojave Desert. He also served as CEO of Silicon Energy Corp, VP of Energy at Google, and headed the Energy Management Solutions Group at Itron Inc. He brings extensive experience in developing clean energy projects, a technological background in software and grid modernization solutions, and is well versed in California’s regulatory goals.

Mr. Woolard has been a director of PG&E Corporation and Pacific Gas and Electric Company since October 2019. He also serves on the advisory board of the UC Berkeley’s Energy and Climate Initiative and is a Senior Fellow at the World Resources Institute and a Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute.

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