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Meet the amazing teams behind GridSME.

Executive, Business Development, & Administrative Team


Eric Whitley

Co-Founder/Owner/Advisor

Lonnie Rush

Co-Founder/Owner/Advisor

Matt Barnes

GridSME CEO, GridSecurity CFO

John Franzino

GridSecurity CEO

Samantha Scott

Vice President of Operations

Sara Rhodes

Vice President of Business Development and Account Management

Lauren Reyes

Business Manager

Carlyn Marsh

Business Analyst Intern

Torri Pugh

Proposal & Marketing Coordinator

Engineering Team


Jason Miller, PE

Vice President of Engineering

Antonio Utrillas

Director of Engineering - Modeling

Ryan Hancock

Director of Engineering - Interconnection

Ben Smith, LEED AP

Director of Engineering -Implementation

Gary Brown

Principal Consultant / Advisor

Akila Perera

Power Systems Engineer

Taylor McClain, PE

Power Systems Engineer

Sara Srzic

Power Systems Engineer

Jesse Harris

Power Systems Engineer

Dharan Patel

Power Systems Engineer

Taylor Oehlman

Project Coordinator

Lowell Watros

Engineering Project Coordinator

Carl Kidwell

Design Engineer

Tim Mason

Principal Consultant

Lee Cordner

Sr. Project Manager Power Generation, Demand Side Management, Fuel Supply

Irina Green

Principal Consultant

Sarina San Nicolas

Technical Data Analyst

Gavi Dhariwal

Technical Data Analyst

Dinesh Salem-Natarajan 

Principal Consultant

Grid Integration Team


Kelsey Gormley

Vice President of Grid Integration

Christina Gallegos

Project Manager

McKennan Bertsch, PE

Senior Project Manager

Jacob Wellman

Project Manager

Ron Olsen

Principal Consultant, Interconnection Services and Market Integration

David Greene

Principal Consultant

Pat McCarthy

The Metering Guy

Tony Choi
Principal Consultant

Compliance Team


Doug Brown

Vice President of Compliance

Kim Van Brimer
Compliance Administrative Services Manager

Nick Barse

Managed Compliance Services Lead

Kaylie Hague

Compliance Implementation Lead

Sandra Setti

Compliance Program Manager

Camilla Mason

Compliance Program Manager

Brent Hebert
Compliance Program Manager
Astha Patel
Compliance Administrative Assistant

Domenic Darling

Senior Consultant


Jason Murray

Managing Director of Canadian

Operations

Charlotte Feildel

Principal Consultant

Brenda Pernitsky
Principal Consultant

Nicholas Manka

Principal Security Consultant

Tom Watson
Principal Consultant
Danny Zaragoza

Principal Consultant

Tim "TJ" Ferreira
Sr. Process & System Architect

David McDaniel

Senior EMS Specialist

Yvonne Mejia Pena
Principal Consultant
Michael McElhany
Senior Consultant


Chelsea Scalzo
Compliance Analyst



Alix Minjarez

Compliance Analyst

Lucy Schimdt

Compliance Analyst

Garret Lamb

Senior Consultant / Compliance Program Manager

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