Served the Southern California Aee local Chapter (Aee SoCal) over a 4 year span as Director at Large, Annual Conference Co-chair, Vice President, and President in 2018 and 2019. Ms. Martin has 39 years of marketing and business development experience beginning her career in the rapidly moving computer industry from 1980 to 1992. She held the position of Regional Manager at Enable Software, Albany New York, as well as Senior Account Manager at Ashton Tate in Torrance, CA. While working on a Master’s in Business, Ms. Martin joined the Southern California Edison Company in 1994. She graduated in 2001, achieving her MBA degree from the University of Phoenix and obtained her Bachelor’s degree from Mount Saint Mary’s University, Los Angeles in 1979. During her 25 years of experience with Southern California Edison, Ms. Martin managed key customer portfolios valued over $156,000,000 and has driven attainment of individual, team and company goals, deliverance of excellent customer satisfaction, and successful resolution to complex regulatory customer impacts and projects.

Nolan Sambrano is a Director and Senior Project Engineer at the ADEPT Group, Inc. where he manages operations and business support functions. He consults on business development and strategy; and leads energy and engineering projects for public and private sector clients involving R&D, technology transfer and commercialization, and project management. His experience in the energy industry includes work in alternative fuels, geothermal power, high altitude wind, PV, and energy efficiency. Nolan is a Certified Energy Manager and has a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering from UCLA.

Mr. Musser is the Energy Manager for Searles Valley Minerals. He has over 40 years industrial experience in Operations, Instrumentation & Electrical Maintenance, Project Management, Engineering, Maintenance Management & Energy Project Development.

Ricson Chude is a professional engineer who currently works for Southern California EDISON, where he supports the development of “next generation” Energy Efficiency, Demand Response programs and the integration of Distributed Energy Resources to help local grid reliability. His previous experiences in the energy field comprises engineering work under both electric and gas utility demand side management programs, as well as independent consulting with energy service companies and environmental firms to solve customer energy, environmental and compliance challenges. In previous roles at SCE, he supervised engineers who performed the technical analysis of customer submitted energy efficiency projects, managed HVAC equipment emerging technology field studies, and authored white papers detailing energy savings best practices. His areas of interest are in industrial/commercial building energy assessments and clean tech innovation. Ricson is committed to shaping the policies and standards impacting energy sector and the built environment. He currently leads the Energy Management Subcommittee of ASHRAE’s Building Energy & Water Performance Technical Committee and teaches an introductory course in Energy Management at Citrus College. Mr. Chude holds a Master of Science in Engineering Management from the California State Polytechnic University of Pomona, and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the California State University of Los Angeles. He is a licensed Mechanical Engineer in the State of California and is recognized as a Certified Energy Manager (CEM), Certified Energy Auditor (CEA), and Certified Measurement and Verification Professional (CMVP) from the Association of Energy Engineers.

Tony is a mechanical engineer with a 30+ year career in power generation and T&D, including senior executive positions at several world-renowned power system equipment OEM’s, as well as operating his own successful technical consulting and industrial supply export businesses. His broad range of experience in conventional, nuclear, and renewable energies include project management, manufacturing, product development, sales & marketing, O&M, retrofit & upgrades, strategic planning, M&A, change management, innovation, safety and continuous improvement. Tony is a certified Six Sigma Master Blackbelt, ISO9001:2015 QMS Lead Auditor, and Agile & DMAIC Project Leader. He is a member of the Association for Strategic Planning and a Registered Representative of the Securities Exchange Commission. Tony is bilingual in Mandarin Chinese.

Serge Adamian currently manages Ecotrade, Inc, a consulting company with focus on commercial-scale renewable energy projects. Previously he managed SunChiller, Inc a company that marketed solar thermal systems and collectors for industrial, commercial, and residential applications. In that capacity he initiated multiple large-scale solar thermal and energy efficiency installations in the United States.

Prior to SunChiller he started and managed companies in diverse fields of solar thermal collector manufacturing, hydrogen fuel cell R&D, software development, and wind-farm development.
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Sona Coffee is a sustainability manager that is passionate about transforming local governments into environmentally sustainable communities. Prior to joining the City of Irvine as the Environmental Programs Administrator in 2017, she served in a similar role at the City of Manhattan Beach for eight years. Sona leads programs that promote environmental stewardship, with an emphasis on moving communities towards clean energy. In addition to energy programs, she oversees the City of Irvine’s solid waste management and recycling programs, and civic engagement efforts. Sona is a proud USC alum with undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Price School of Public Policy, with an emphasis in environmental policy. She is also a member of the Council on Women in Energy and Environmental Leadership, focusing on career development of women in the energy and environmental fields.

Alice Beltran has a BS in Geology from UCLA and an MS in Building Science from USC. She has 15 years of energy efficiency experience at SoCalGas that spans the multifamily, commercial, industrial, and agricultural sectors. She has developed and managed energy efficiency programs with a variety of delivery channels and measure types. She is currently the SoCalGas Trade Pro Account Executive.

Natalie Joves is a Senior Account Executive at Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas), where she supports large commercial and industrial customers to enhance customer experience and promote efficient use of natural gas. She was previously an Account Executive with the company’s Trade Professional Program, engaging with and promoting energy efficiency to equipment manufacturers, installers, and sellers. Prior to this, she supported new and existing construction projects with their energy efficiency needs. Joves received her B.S. from California State University, Long Beach in Civil Engineering.

Abhijeet Jadhav is a Senior Process Engineer at Searles Valley Minerals, California. He has over 10 years of industrial experience in different realm of industry such as operation engineering, process engineering, projects management, energy optimization and renewable energy projects development. His passion for excellence led him to possess multi-disciplinary professional engineering licenses in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Control System Engineering. He is specialized in several industrial tools such as, Lean Six Sigma (LSS) – Green Belt Certified and Black Belt Trained; Project Management Professional (PMP) and Certified Energy Manager (CEM) trained. He volunteers several non-profit organizations (NCEES, Toastmasters, AEE, PETA…) to serve community efficiently.

As the first webmaster at Caltech, Beatrice Aispuro has extensive experience in the digital space: Design, Development, Usability, Data Aggregation, and Branding & Marketing. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from CSULB in Journalism, Public Relations, and Spanish in 1991 and completed coursework at Art Center College of Design in 1997.

Throughout her twenty-year career, she has been involved in the planning and management of hundreds of outstanding design and development projects for companies such as Caltech, Fox Sports, SFUSD, Disney, dot-com startups, and fast-paced agencies. She is currently co-chairing the 2019 AEE SoCal annual conference: Energy Safety, Security and Sustainability.

Monika Cornelius is President of Cornelius & Associates in Huntington Beach, CA. Cornelius & Associates provides association management services, meeting and exhibition management, and consulting services to associations. Ms. Cornelius has a Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) designation from the Convention Liaison Council and has been a member of the Professional Convention Management Association where she served on the international relations committee and membership committee. She has spoken at various industry events on customer service and international meeting management and is co-author of Program Planning Guide: A Manual for Successful Educational Meetings.