Senior Director, Supply Chain for Systems & Components Engineering Westinghouse Electric Co. Ben Solich is senior director, Global Nuclear Supply Chain, focusing on the Westinghouse New Plants and Major Projects (NP&MP) business. NP&MP delivers the Westinghouse AP1000® Pressurized Water Reactor power plants to customers worldwide and is currently building units in the U.S. and China. In his current position, Ben is responsible for aligning Global Nuclear Supply Chain with the new plant delivery model, as well as creating a sourcing strategy for potential customers in India. Ben joined Westinghouse in 2007 and has held leadership positions of increasing responsibility since that time.  Prior to his current role, Ben was engineering director, AP1000 Projects, and successfully completed the design and delivered all primary equipment components to China on time and within the allocated budget. Ben also was project director for the Watts Bar nuclear power plant completion project, the first new nuclear plant to go online in the United States since 1996. Additionally, he has held other Supply Chain leadership roles. Prior to joining Westinghouse, Ben held engineering and leadership positions with Brunswick Boat Group and Dow Chemical. Ben received a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from The Pennsylvania State University and a Master in Business Administration (MBA) degree from the University of Pittsburgh. He is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt.

David Porter began his career in local government. He then ran businesses of his own, including a successful restaurant. He was an adviser to the Association from 1987 and became its Chief Executive in 1991 (until 1995 it had been the Association of Independent Electricity Producers). In 2007, he was appointed OBE by Her Majesty the Queen, for services to the Power Generation Industry.   He has served on the Executive Committee of the Electricity Pool of England & Wales , the government’s Renewable Energy Advisory Committee, the government’s ‘Foresight Energy Futures Task Force’ and he was President of the UK ’s ‘Energy Industries Club’ 2003 - 2005.     He is currently on the Board of the European electricity body ‘Eurelectric’, Chairman of the Energy Policy & Generation Committee of Eurelectric, a Director of the UK Parliamentary Renewable and Sustainable Energy Group (‘PRASEG’), a member of the government's Coal Forum and Chairman of the Future Generation Sub Group of the Coal Forum. David is an Honorary Fellow of the Energy Institute.

Derin Bluhm is Chief Technology Officer for Grant County Public Utility District in Ephrata, WA. He is responsible for the technology transformation and modernization strategy at the utility.  He specializes in technology strategy development, organizational transformation, multi-channel strategy and implementation, technology risk management, and operational expense management. His primary areas of concentration include banking and financial services, utilities, public safety and regulated industry. Prior to joining Grant County PUD in March of 2018, Bluhm was a consulting Senior Director at Alvarez & Marsal where he led the cybersecurity risk management. Prior to joining A&M, Bluhm served more than seven years as Chief Information Officer and Chief Information Security Officer for the Seattle Financial Group (including Seattle Mortgage, Seattle Bank, and Reverse Mortgage of America). Previously, he was VP of IT and Research and Development for Chase Credit Systems and Research (and Fiserv, Inc. upon acquisition), where he successfully led the national credit report agency’s transition to a SaaS model providing industry leading capabilities and transactional performance.

As a market principal covering new markets at OSIsoft, Enrique is focused on shaping the strategy for connected devices. He brings over 23 years of engineering experience from the automotive OEM perspective (Ford Motor Company and Jaguar Cars) and as a Tier 1 supplier (Visteon Corporation). He has cross-functional experiences from Powertrain Design, Manufacturing Operations and Information Technology. More recently, Herrera served as a Senior Business Strategy Architect on the Microsoft Enterprise Consulting Services team. Herrera led a global community of enterprise architects on various initiatives such as connected vehicles, enterprise manufacturing intelligence and automotive retail solutions. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master of Science degree in Advanced Automotive Engineering from Loughborough University in the UK.