2025 UAI Excellence Awards Winners
UAI Recognizes Utility Analytics Excellence with 2025 Awards
Celebrating Innovation, Leadership, and Community Impact at UA Week 2025 in Austin, Texas
At this year’s UA Week in Austin, Texas, the Utility Analytics Institute (UAI) celebrated the achievements of leaders, professionals, and teams shaping the future of the utility analytics industry by announcing the winners of the 2025 UAI Excellence Awards.
These prestigious awards honor individuals and organizations for their outstanding innovation, leadership, and collaboration in advancing analytics within the utility sector. Each year, the UAI Excellence Awards showcase how analytics continue to drive digital transformation, operational excellence, and meaningful change across the energy industry.
2025 UAI Excellence Awards Winners
Community Engagement Awards
Analytics Ambassador
Pavel Ozhogin, Director, Data Science, National Grid
Best Utility Analytics Professional
Anthony Cerrato – Senior Data Engineer, Rappahannock Electric Cooperative
Best Utility Analytics Leader
Hannah Ball – Data Governance Manager, Tacoma Public Utilities
Best Innovative Utility Analytics Team
The Avista Decision Support System (ADSS) Team
Recognizing Leadership and Innovation
The UAI Excellence Awards program continues to highlight individuals and teams that demonstrate the power of analytics to improve operations, enable smarter decision-making, and foster a culture of innovation and collaboration.
In addition to the Excellence Awards, UAI unveiled its Top 25 Thought Leaders in Utility Analytics for 2025. This annual recognition honors professionals whose vision and expertise are advancing analytics maturity and thought leadership across the industry. To view the full list of honorees, visit https://utilityanalytics.com/awards.
“We’re thrilled to celebrate this year’s award winners for their remarkable achievements and ongoing commitment to advancing analytics across the utility industry,” said Leslie Cook, UAI’s Membership, Engagement, and Training Manager. “Their passion for driving innovation and collaboration continues to strengthen our entire community.”
“Each of these honorees represents the forward momentum of utility analytics,” added Gina Weber, UAI’s Managing Director. “Their leadership and creativity exemplify how data-driven insights can transform utilities and create a more resilient, efficient, and intelligent energy future.”
About the UAI Excellence Awards
The UAI Excellence Awards program recognizes exceptional contributions across categories such as leadership, innovation, professional achievement, and community engagement. Each winner reflects UAI’s mission to empower utilities through analytics, inspire collaboration, and showcase the measurable value of data-driven transformation.
To learn more about the UAI Excellence Awards, visit https://utilityanalytics.com/awards.
Winners were revealed live at Utility Analytics Week 2025 in Austin, Texas.
About the Author
Leslie Cook, Manager, Membership, Engagement & Training Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Leslie Cook is a strategic program director, dynamic business leader, and expert facilitator with 30 years of professional experience. Leslie’s peers describe her as a passionate, authentic, action-oriented leader with a goal driven attitude and enthusiasm for creating connections and collaborations. She excels at developing and managing frontline programs that position companies and their products for sustainable revenue growth and delivering customer-focused solutions that demonstrate product value, build long-term loyalty, and foster client engagement and retention. Cook’s background includes extensive work with associations and institutes in program development and management, marketing communications, event management, branding, and sales/new business development. She holds a BA in public relations from Texas Tech University and served in various program director and marketing roles for the Utility Analytics Institute (An Endeavor Business Media company), Financial Planning Association® (FPA®), HDI (an Informa company), and the Global Semiconductor Alliance (formerly Fabless Semiconductor Association). When she is not out facilitating cutting-edge programs or creating unforgettable member experiences, Leslie can be found traveling the world and also enjoying all that Colorado has to offer, from hiking, swimming, and outdoor excursions with her fur babies, to antiquing for the best mid-century modern finds and blown glass of all kinds. She also leverages her high attention to detail and project management skills when dabbling in home remodeling and interior design, two of her favorite pastimes.
