
HALL OF FAME - 2021 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! Kim Gaddy, Independent Consultant, Former VP & Managing Director – UAI
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! Tom Hobbib, Manager, Data & Analytics Services – SEMPRA
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! Joselle Abagat Barnett, Senior Data Analyst – Santee Cooper
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! Tennessee Valley Authority, Enterprise Analytics Team

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
Ben Ettlinger, Manager of Digital Analytics – New York Power Authority (NYPA)
Most Engaged Utility
SEMPRA (SoCalGas & SDG&E)
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.
Derin Bluhm
Chief Technology Officer – Grant County PUD
Dawn Frye
Manager of Smart Grid and Meter Data Management – Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC)
Tom Martin
Managing Director of Product: Data Science Division – E Source
Rick Perez
Principal – Deloitte Consulting
Mike Rossi
VP of Strategy, Growth, Energy, and Sustainability – Neudesic
Drew Clancy
Marketing Director – Mosaic Data Science
Claude Godin
Director, Energy Data Analytics – DNV
Elizabeth Massey
Director of Connected Analytics – The Energy Authority
Jordan Pino
Sr. Data Scientist – Baltimore Gas & Electric
Kaleb Thompson
Data Science Supervisor – ONE Gas
Marie Clarke
Analytic Center of Enablement (ACoE) Lead – Eversource Energy
Debra Henderson
Principal Consultant – Black & Veatch
Travis Metcalfe
Strategy, Innovation, and Engagement Manager – Tacoma Power
Josh Power
Capability Lead, Advanced Analytics – Oncor Electric Delivery
Rolando Vega-Avila
Interim Director of Advanced Enterprise Analytics – CPS Energy
Mario Correa
Project Manager, Implementation & Deployment – SoCalGas
Brian Hurst
VP & Chief Analytics Officer – Exelon Utilities
Sean Otto
Director of Analytics – The AES Corporation
Gabriel Prado
Sr. Director of Product Marketing – Cognite
Brian Wilkerson
Sr. Manager of AI Solutions – Duke Energy
Ben Ettlinger
Manager of Digital Analytics – New York Power Authority (NYPA)
Ioannis Katsanos
Head of Customer Data Science – Exelon Utilities
Jason Pegg
Domain Architect – Avista Corporation
Gary Rector
Data Scientist – Salt River Project
Jeffrey Yankley
Director of Customer Insights & Analytics – Consumers Energy