HALL OF FAME - 2020 Award Winners
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.
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! Amelia Badders, Director, Enterprise Advanced Analytics – CPS Energy
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! Christine Wisniewski, Executive Director, Analytics & Systems – Consumers Energy
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! Ioannis Katsanos, Manager of Data Science – Exelon Utilities
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! SoCalGas, Performance Mgmt & Org Strategy Team
Most Engaged Individual
Travis Metcalfe, Strategy, Innovation, and Engagement Manager – Tacoma Public
Most Engaged Utility
Evergy
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.
Ankush Agarwal
Director Grid T&D Analytics – Exelon Utilities
Patrick Dever
Chief Data Strategist – Avista
Abhay Gupta
CEO – Bidgely
Vitha Krishnamurthy
Lead Business Intelligence – Enbridge Gas Inc.
Glen Sartain
Principle Director – Accenture
Amelia Badders
Director of Enterprise Advanced Analytics – CPS Energy
Mark Drewes
Manager, Analytics Center of Excellence – Salt River Project
Eddy Halter
Sr. Director of Enterprise Analytics – Evergy
Karen Lefkowitz
CEO – Sunset Energy
Mike Smith
Industry Principle – SAS Institute
Carol Bogacz
Associate Data Scientist – Burns and McDonnell
Jill Feblowitz
President – Feblowitz Energy Consulting
Sandi Joralemon
Data Strategy Manager – New Braunfels Utilities
Vijoy Mathew
Executive Director, Analytics, Cloud, Dev Ops, & Enterprise Architecture – Consumers Energy
Raiford Smith
Director, Energy & Analytics – Google
Andrew Braeger
Data Engineering Manager – Tacoma Public Utilities
Eddie Fee
Director, Meter Services – Orlando Utilities Commission
Andy Kapp
Lead Enterprise Architect – Evergy
Neelanjan Patri
Strategic Operations Solutions – Tennessee Valley Authority
Steve Sundstrom
Group Vice President, Utility Segment – C3.ai
Norv Clontz
Director of Data Science Innovation – Duke Energy
Kim Gaddy
Consultant, Former VP and Managing Director of UAI
Tim Krall
Director, Customer Analytics – Exelon Utilities
David Pope
Sr. Manager, Pre Sales US Energy – SAS
Chris Wisniewski
Executive Director of Analytics & Systems – Consumers Energy
