HALL OF FAME - 2024 Award Winners
UAI Analytics Ambassador
This award recognizes the lasting contributions, leadership, enthusiasm, and tireless efforts of industry luminaries who’ve committed themselves to elevating the reputation of the utility analytics profession and improving the industry.
WINNER! Neelanjan Patri, Operations Technology, Data & Analytics, Strategic Operations Solutions, COO – Tennessee Valley Authority
Best Utility Analytics Leader
This award acknowledges and honors a utility analytics leader who has excelled at supporting any or all analytics work within their utility and who most clearly demonstrates the ability to serve and advance analytics within the utility industry.
WINNER! Eugene Hamrick, Director, Enterprise Analytics & Innovation – Rappahannock Electric Cooperative
Best Utility Analytics Professional
This award recognizes the utility analytics industry’s top professional who possess the knowledge, skills, experience, passion, and business acumen required to provide consistent, quality, and innovative effort that is directly relevant to the utility analytics industry.
WINNER! Scott Ertel, Senior Data Engineer – Entergy
Best Innovative Utility Analytics Team
This award recognizes teams that have set and achieved the highest standards of excellence in utility analytics for problem solving in innovative ways and takes the time to instill that culture in their employees.
WINNER! Rappahannock Electric Cooperative – Enterprise Analytics & Innovation
Community Engagement Awards
Nominations are not required to qualify for the UAI Community Engagement Awards. UAI selects our winners for this category from a combination of engagement activities, including engagement scores on UAI Connect, UAI Community Conversation involvement, volunteerism with UAI, etc. Three winners have been selected for this category: Most Engaged Individual Member, Most Engaged Utility Company, and Most Engaged Solution Provider Company.
Most Engaged Individual
Tim Krall, Director of Analytics – Exelon
Most Engaged Utility
CPS Energy
Most Engaged Solution Provider
Logic 2020
Top 25 Thought Leaders in Utility Analytics
Utility analytics professionals are a community minded bunch. They are a conscientious group eager to learn and grow, and to share with one another to help promote excellence in the industry. And so, it is no surprise that this community is also eager to celebrate its champions, those who are the most active in the community and share their insights for the benefit of all. We are proud to celebrate all that these influencers do for our industry with UAI’s Top 25 Thought Leaders in Utility Analytics.
Damian Baum
Director of Technology and Metering, CIO – Owatonna Public Utilities
Carol Bogacz
Principal Consultant – 1898 & Co. (Part of Burns & McDonnell)
Tomer Borenstein
Co-Founder and CEO – BlastPoint
Chris Britsch
Sr. Manager, Data and Analytics – Snohomish County PUD
Elizabeth Cook
Vice President, Technical Strategy – AEIC
Tim Fairchild
(Former) Global Energy Practice Director – SAS
Amanda Fugate
Sr. Director of Enterprise Applications – Evergy
Cara Gilad
Principal Data Scientist – Exelon
Amanda Gomez
Executive Director of Analytics and Digital Products – Consumers Energy
Andrew Kapp
Lead Data Scientist – Evergy
Tuan Le
Manager Data & Analytics Engineering – CPS Energy
Ken McCabe
Senior Data Scientist – Pepco Holdings (an Exelon Company)
Valliappan Muthukaruppan
Principal Quantitative Engineer – Exelon
Mark Peco
Analytics Instructor & Educator – Camar Solutions Inc.
Hesen Peng
Senior Data Scientist – BrillIT (a wholly owned subsidiary of Rappahannock Electric Cooperative)
Samantha Pixley
Sr. Manager, Data Governance | Enterprise Advanced Analytics – CPS Energy
Uma Poduturu
IT Manager, Data Analytics COE – DTE Energy
David Pope
Executive Advisor and Data Intelligence & Analytics Manager – Quanta Technology
Kennedy Porter
Supervisor, Custom DevOps – Oncor Electric Delivery
Arnie Richardson
Managing Director, Strategic Solutions Analytics & Innovation – Duke Energy
Saurabh Sahni
Director, Planning, Scheduling, and Data Analytics – Eversource Energy
Glen Sartain
Managing Director – West Monroe Partners
Raiford Smith
Chief Utility Innovation Officer – AES Corporation
Greg Whicker
Director, ITS – Information Management – Salt River Project
Natalie Winters
Senior Manager, Data Services Engineering – MISO
