UAI Excellence Awards Hall of Fame – 2023

HALL OF FAME - 2023 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! Josh Power, Capability Lead, Advanced Analytics – Oncor Electric Delivery

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! Chris Britsch, Sr. Manager, Data & Analytics – Snohomish County PUD

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! Michael McManus, Sr. Data Scientist – Consumers Energy

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! Consumers Energy Operations Performance, Analytics and Process

 

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

 

Michael Fourman, Director, Business Intelligence – Georgia Transmission Corporation 

Most Engaged Utility

 

 


Exelon

Most Engaged Solution Provider


SAS

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.

Vladyslav Anderson
Principal Quantitative Engineer – Exelon

Abhijit Bhatwadekar
Head of Data & Analytics – PPL Corporation

Mary Chapa
Fleet & Safety Informatics Manager – CPS Energy

Po-Chen Chen
Manager of Data Science, Infrastructure and Safety Analytics – Exelon

Adam Cornille 
Sr. Director, Advanced Analytics – Logic 20/20

Michael Covarrubias
Managing Partner / VP of Strategy and Solutions – Xtensible Solutions

Michael Fourman
Director, Business Intelligence – Georgia Transmission Corporation

Brad Gall
Sr. Data Architect – The Energy Authority

Sarah Green
Director of Analytics – Consumers Energy

John Kinateder
Lead Data Scientist – American Electric Power

 

Tony Klutz
Senior Industrial Hygienist ​ – Avista

Mark Konya
Former Advisory Industry Consultant – SAS US Energy

Tom Mahar
Principal Data Scientist – ComEd

Sean Marden
Lead Data Scientist – National Grid

Ivan Mejorado
Data Science and Business Intelligence Analyst – El Paso Electric

 

Phi Nguyen
Senior Data Scientist – San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E)

Abdul Rahman Mohammed
Director, Data Analytics and Decision Services – MISO

Haley Saul
Data Services Program Manager – Tacoma Public Utilities

Nolan Steiner
Manager, Data Strategy – Avista

 

Ann Toy
Lead Business Translator, Enterprise Analytics – Evergy

Eric Verner
Data Scientist – Southern Company

Joel Wasson
Manager, Enterprise Data & Analytics – Enterprise Architectecture & Planning – Hawaiian Electric

Angela White-Parker
Enterprise Information Architect – SoCal Gas/Sempra Utilities

Jennifer Wischnowsky
Senior Director, Data, Analytics & Transformation – Ameren

Junhui Zhao
Manager of Engineering Data Innovation – Eversource

📢 Submission Received – Thank You!

Thank you for your interest in joining a UAI Community! 🎉

Your request is now under review by a UAI staff member, and you’ll receive a response within 2 business days.

If you have any questions in the meantime, feel free to reach out to us at info@utilityanalytics.com—we’re happy to help!

We appreciate your enthusiasm for being part of the UAI Community and look forward to connecting with you soon!