Caroline Dorsa was named executive vice president and chief financial officer for Public Service Enterprise Group Incorporated (PSEG) in April 2009. She is also the executive vice president and chief financial officer of Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G), and PSEG Services Corporation.

Ms. Dorsa is responsible for all financial functions, including Internal Audit Services. She also leads the Information Technology and Procurement organizations. She is a member of PSEG’s corporate executive leadership team.

Ms. Dorsa had been a Director of Public Service Enterprise Group Inc. (PSEG) since 2003, and a member of PSEG's Audit, Corporate Governance and Finance Committees.

Ms. Dorsa joined PSEG from Merck & Co., Inc. where she most recently served as senior vice president – global human health, strategy and integration. Immediately prior to her most recent role at Merck, Ms. Dorsa held positions as senior vice president and chief financial officer at both Avaya, Inc., and Gilead Sciences, Inc. Earlier in her career, she held a range of financial positions at Merck, including serving as vice president and treasurer of the company for over 12 years. She was also the Secretary of the Finance Committee of Merck's Board of Directors.

Prior to joining Merck, Ms. Dorsa worked for Mayor Edward Koch of the City of New York promoting economic development in midtown Manhattan.

Ms. Dorsa is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Newark Museum and a member of the Junior Achievement of New Jersey State Board of Directors in Princeton, NJ. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of Biogen Idec (NASDAQ: BIIB), a biopharmaceutical company located in Cambridge, MA.

Ms. Dorsa holds a B.A. from Colgate University and an M.B.A from Columbia Business School.

Guerry Waters has more than 30 years of experience in global information technology strategy, organization, architecture and business-driven IT solutions for utilities. Waters joined SPL WorldGroup in 2000 and moved with the company when it was acquired by Oracle in 2007. He currently serves as Group Vice President, Solution Strategy and Product Marketing for Oracle’s Utilities Global Business Unit. Previously, Waters was vice president of energy information strategy at META Group, where he focused on customer management, energy trading and risk management, and the alignment of information technology with energy lines of business. He has also held positions as CTO and director of technology strategy and engineering at Southern Company. 

Waters’ educational background includes concentrations in business technology and extensive course work in management, strategy development, and implementation planning. He is a frequent speaker and writer on issues surrounding the creation of enterprise-wide IT strategies and business processes that help utilities maximize operational efficiency and enhance customer satisfaction.

Jeff is a leader in the Project Management Organization that is deploying and managing the Advanced Metering System (AMS) and Intelligent Grid (IG) for CenterPoint Energy. Within the PMO, Jeff has direct responsibility for integrated monitoring and diagnostics of the production systems, as well as planning, tracking, reporting and business process change for the deployment projects.

Previously, Jeff was Director of Land & Field Services, where he was responsible for the people, processes and technology that provide geographic information services, surveying, right-of-way management, joint use management and underground damage prevention services for the gas and electric regulated operations of CenterPoint Energy.

Jeff has 30 years of experience at CenterPoint Energy and its predecessor companies, and has a BS in Surveying from Purdue University and a MBA from the University of Houston.

Joseph M. Rigby is Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of Pepco Holdings, Inc. (PHI), a regional energy holding company that provides utility service to approximately 1.9 million customers. PHI is the parent company of Potomac Electric Power Company, an electric utility serving Washington, D.C., and suburban Maryland; Delmarva Power, an electric and gas utility serving Delaware and the rest of the Delmarva Peninsula; and Atlantic City Electric, an electric utility serving southern New Jersey.

Mr. Rigby joined Atlantic City Electric in 1979 and advanced through a number of management positions. His responsibilities have included accounting, financial services, treasury operations, business transformation, human resources, and the Atlantic City Electric/Delmarva Power merger transition team. Following the merger that formed Conectiv, he was Vice President/General Manager of Gas Delivery, then Vice President/General Manager of Electric Delivery. He was elected President, Conectiv Power Delivery in 2002. From May 2004 to September 2007, he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of PHI and was responsible for all financial activity as well as investor relations.

From September 2007 to March 2008, Mr. Rigby served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. He was responsible for the day-to-day operations of Pepco, Delmarva Power and Atlantic City Electric Company, along with Information Technology and Corporate Communications. In March 2008, Mr. Rigby was elected President and Chief Operating Officer, adding responsibility for the competitive energy businesses (Conectiv Energy and Pepco Energy Services). Mr. Rigby was elected President and Chief Executive Officer effective March 1, 2009. He was elected Chairman of the Board on May 15, 2009.

Mr. Rigby earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Rutgers University and an MBA from Monmouth University. He is also a licensed Certified Public Accountant in the state of New Jersey.

Mr. Rigby is Chairman of the United Way of the National Capital Area and Chairman of the Greater Washington Board of Trade. He serves on the boards of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Edison Electric Institute, the Federal City Council, the Trust for the National Mall and the Greater Washington Initiative. He is a member of the Rutgers-Camden School of Business Executive Advisory Board. Mr. Rigby is a member of the New Jersey Society of CPAs and the American Institute of CPAs.

Ken Silverstein is an award-winning journalist who is the editor-in-chief of EnergyBiz Insider, a publication started by Energy Central in July 2005 and which now runs each business day. Ken has been a writer and editor for more than two decades, much of that time covering the energy industry. The Insider has garnered critical praise and earned a worldwide following.

With a background in economics and public policy, his work has been published in more than 100 periodicals. He has also been sourced in the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, National Public Radio, Atlantic Monthly, and several newspapers and magazines in the United States and abroad. He is an invited speaker at a range of energy industry conferences and he has appeared on C-SPAN. He holds B.A. and M.B.A. degrees from Tulane University, and an M.A. from American University.

Manoj S. Chouthai was named vice president – information technology and chief information officer for PSEG Services Corporation, in December 2006.  He retains his position as chief technology officer for PSEG, which he has held since 2003.

As vice president - information technology and CIO, Mr. Chouthai is responsible for setting the IT strategy for the company, developing and implementing the IT operating model, optimizing the costs and value of IT products and services, leading IT Governance and introducing new and emerging technologies into the enterprise.

With over twenty five years of management and leadership experience, Mr. Chouthai has a broad technology background and has a track record of successfully leading organizations through periods of organizational transformation and change.

Mr. Chouthai previously served as vice president in the information systems group at Prudential Financial. Prior to that, he provided thought leadership, developed technology roadmaps, created global sourcing strategies, managed strategic alliances, and implemented governance models within several leading insurance companies and investment banks.

Mr. Chouthai received a Master of Science degree in information systems from the Graduate School of Arts and Science at New York University (NYU), and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Stern School of Business at NYU. 

Marc S. Gerken, P.E., has served as president and chief executive officer of American Municipal Power, Inc. (AMP) since February 2000.

Gerken began his career as a civil engineer working extensively in the public sector on infrastructure projects, including transportation, water, wastewater and storm water improvements. He served as the city engineer in the public power community of Napoleon, Ohio, and in 1995, was named the community’s city manager. In that capacity, Gerken served on the AMP Board of Trustees for four years and chaired the AMP Board committee with oversight over the construction of the 42-MW Belleville Hydroelectric Plant. He joined AMP in 1998 as vice president of business and operations.

Gerken is the immediate past chairman of the American Public Power Association Board of Directors, having served as a member of the 10-member Board Executive Committee since 2004, and as the chairman from June 2009-June 2010. Gerken previously chaired the Public Power, Inc. Board of Directors, which oversees an APPA utility services affiliate. He is a member of the organization’s CEO Climate Change Task Force, a frequent presenter at APPA meetings and a leader in public power Joint Action Agency working groups. He has testified before congressional committees and FERC technical conferences on wholesale power market issues and is a long-time member of the Transmission Access Policy Study Group (TAPS) Executive Committee. Additionally, he serves on the Board of Directors of the National Hydropower Association. Gerken received the APPA Harold Kramer-John Preston Personal Service Award in June 2005. He was recognized as a finalist for the Platt’s Global Energy CEO of the Year Award in December 2010.

As The Energy Authority’s Vice President of Energy Trading and Chief Operating Officer, Mark Kinevan is responsible for all of TEA’s energy marketing, trading, risk management, and portfolio optimization services on behalf of its public-power members. In addition to leading these activities, he also serves as the Company’s Chief Operating Officer, with a focus on driving improved performance from TEA’s operations.

Before assuming his current position in 2005, Mr. Kinevan served as TEA’s Vice President of Risk Control and Strategic Planning for four years. Prior to joining TEA Mr. Kinevan held various leadership positions at an investor-owned utility and in the oil and gas exploration and production industry.

Mr. Kinevan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Physics from the Colorado School of Mines and a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School.

Mike Smith is an Energy Central alumnus. Previously, he launched and grew Sierra Energy Group, the company's research and analysis division, and co-founded and co-chaired the Knowledge CIO Summit. For 21 years, he has led and been involved in leading research, publication, and event developments in the utility industry. Most recently, he spent two years in the utility smart-grid/IT/automation markets, working with an international integrated media-and-events company and an IT solutions provider.

Martin Rosenberg is Editor-in-Chief of EnergyBiz magazine. EnergyBiz is a bimonthly business magazine for leaders in the new power industry. EnergyBiz is a controlled circulation publication that reaches more than 20,000 of the most influential managers, executives, legislators, regulators, lawyers and consultants who play critical roles in utilities, government, advisory firms, and supplier companies.

The editorial focus of EnergyBiz is strategic issues -- financial, technological, legal and regulatory -- facing energy executives today. Feature articles will not only cover recent events, new trends and innovative ideas, but also the people behind them.

Raymond L. Orbach is the founding Director of The University of Texas at Austin’s Energy Institute. A renowned physicist, Dr. Orbach is the driving force behind the assembly of multidisciplinary teams of researchers that take on some of the most pressing energy issues society today. The Institute’s mission is to provide Texas and the nation sound, science-based research that helps build sustainable energy security.

Prior to joining The University of Texas at Austin, Dr. Orbach served as the country’s first Undersecretary for Science in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE); he also was the director of the Office of Science at the DOE, the highest science policy administrator within the agency.

Before his service in at the DOE, Dr. Orbach was chancellor of the University of California (UC), Riverside, which recently named its science library for him.

Dr. Orbach received his undergraduate physics degree from the California Institute of Technology and his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Oxford University in 1960 and became professor of applied physics at Harvard University in 1961. He later joined the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1963, and served as the Provost of the College of Letters and Science at UCLA from 1982 to 1992.

Dr. Orbach’s research in theoretical and experimental physics has resulted in the publication of more than 240 scientific articles and papers. He has received many honors as a scholar, including two Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowships, a National Science Foundation Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship at Oxford University, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship at Tel Aviv University, and the Joliot Curie Professorship at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands.

Dr. Orbach also has held numerous visiting professorships at universities around the world. He also is a fellow of the American Physical Society and sits on the board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Susan Story is president and CEO of Southern Company Services. In that role, she is responsible for business performance services, information technology, human resources, supply chain management, marketing services, SouthernLINC Wireless and Southern Telecom.

Story also leads Southern Company’s efforts to coordinate activities related to “smart” technology investment and deployment, including smart grid, smart meters, and emerging technologies involving energy efficiency and customer energy choices.

Story joined Southern Company in 1982 as a nuclear power plant engineer. She has served as president and CEO of Gulf Power, executive vice president of engineering and construction services and vice president of supply chain management at Southern Company, as well as vice president of real estate and corporate services at Alabama Power.

Story serves on the Edison Foundation’s Institute for Electric Efficiency Strategy Committee, as well as the boards of directors of Alliance to Save Energy, the Center for Energy Workforce Development, Raymond James Financial, Inc., and Job Creators Alliance and the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center board of advisors. 

Story has an industrial engineering degree from Auburn University, an MBA from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and has completed executive education and leadership programs at Duke, Oxford and Harvard universities, as well as international business studies at Cambridge University. 

THOMAS F. FARRELL, II, 56, has been a director of Dominion since 2005.  Mr. Farrell has been chairman, president and chief executive officer of Dominion since April 2007. Mr. Farrell served as president and chief executive officer of Dominion from January 2006 to April 2007, president and chief operating officer from January 2004 to January 2006, and prior to that, executive vice president. He is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Virginia Electric and Power Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dominion, and was chairman, president and chief executive officer of CNG, a former wholly-owned subsidiary of Dominion. Mr. Farrell is a director of Altria Group, Inc. He received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Virginia.