Dan Gruidel

S&P Global Platts, Inc. provides information, benchmark prices,and analytics for the energy and commodities markets. The firm offers market insights and analytics, commodity prices and essential market data, real-time news, prices, and analysis, maps and geospatial data, and forward curves and risk valuation data. The company was founded by Warren Cumming Platt in 1909 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Nexant, Inc. provides intelligent grid software and clean energy solutions. It is a globally recognized software, consulting and services leader that provides innovative solutions to utilities, energy enterprises, chemical companies and government entities worldwide. The firm provides intelligent grid software and clean energy solutions that advance electric power grid and alternative energy services. Nexant was founded by Basem Y. Sarandah on January 1, 2000 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Hitachi Energy USA, Inc. provides software, data, and advisory services to optimize the management of customers, workforce, spare parts inventory, equipment, tools, and documentation. The firm offers a range of solutions in the areas of asset management, mobile workforce management, customer care, energy trading and risk management, energy operations, and energy analytics. It serves energy and utilities; communications; and chemical, and oil and gas industries. The company is headquartered in Cary, NC.

Global Energy Decisions LLC provides software, data and advisory services for electric industry. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.