
Mayank Saraswat
Project Manager - Modeling and Analytics at NYSERDA
Mayank Saraswat is the Project Manager for NYSERDA's Energy and Environmental Analysis team where his work focuses on building decarbonization, electric system modeling and energy markets. Mayank is an avid learner and likes to spend his free time cooking, painting, and researching about lesser known topics. Mayank also enjoys traveling, exploring foods, history and cultures.

Melina Bartels
Associate at BloombergNEF
Melina is an Associate at BloombergNEF in New York, where she spearheads North American asset valuation and mid- and long-term power market forecasting. She's worked in the power transactions and market analysis space for around 4 years. Before that, she received a BS in mechanical engineering from Dartmouth College. Melina is an avid runner and backpacker, planning to summit Mount Rainier this summer.

Missa Sangimino
Senior Associate at JLC Infrastructure
Missa Sangimino is a Senior Associate and member of the investment team at JLC Infrastructure, a private equity infrastructure fund focused on energy, transportation, communications, utilities, and social infrastructure. Prior to joining JLC, Missa was an Associate covering the infrastructure sector at Stifel Nicolaus, focusing on the electric power and telecommunications sectors. Missa is a board member for Young Professionals in Energy. In her free time, Missa loves cooking and plays soccer and futsal in Brooklyn.

Patrick Owusu
Solar Program Associate at Solar One
Patrick Owusu is a solar program associate at Solar One's Here Comes Solar program to ensure low-income housing residents know that green energy alternatives are not only available but affordable and accessible. Patrick is a born and raised New Yorker from Washington Heights and for the times that Patrick isn’t deftly working to further his career, you can find him at the gym, at a downtown bar, hosting a home-brewed D&D session, or relaxing in a park; contemplating the world with a smile.

Rachel Roseneck
Associate Director & Deputy General Manager at Kivvit
Rachel Roseneck is Associate Director and Deputy General Manager at Kivvit, where she manages communications and marketing strategies for industry-leading clean energy organizations and start-ups. Rachel is an avid runner and biker. Originally from Wisconsin, she now lives in Brooklyn.

Reagan Richmond
Organizational Development Project Manager at New York Power Authority
Reagan Richmond applies her innovation and sustainability expertise to advance organizational culture as the Organizational Development Project Manager at NYPA. Reagan is a deep systems thinker who is passionate about the role of partnerships, personal leadership and culture in advancing a clean energy future. In addition to NYPA, Reagan contributes to the development new sustainable business leaders as an adjunct professor. Outside of work and grading papers, you won't find her because she's likely scrabbling up a mountain towards a new peak.

Sharon Hartzell
Life Scientist & Project Manager at the United States Environmental Protection Agency
Sharon Hartzell is currently working as a project manager with the US Environmental Protection Agency, where she cleans up legacy pollution and works to advance environmental health and justice for communities. She has been involved in the environmental space for many years, including work with the organizations EcoWomen and the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. In her spare time, she writes fiction and tries to spend as much time as she can in the park.
Shivapriya Balasubramanian
Senior Associate, Valuations at Madison Energy Investments
Shivapriya is a Senior Associate with Madison Energy Investments and evaluates North American distributed solar and storage opportunities for capital deployment. She also has experience in renewable project finance and capital deployment in India. She has lived in 8 cities so far, is trilingual, and is enthusiastic about exploring the US more, once travel opens up.

Soli Shin
Associate Vice President, Americas at Global Association of Risk Professionals
Soli is the Associate Vice President of Business Development (Americas) for the Global Association of Risk Professionals where she conducts institutional outreach for sustainability and climate risk education. She is a Duke University alum with a Master of Environmental Management. She is passionate about electric transportation, poetry, and faith-based community engagement.

Taylor Quarles
Director, Development at Key Capture Energy
Taylor is a Director at Key Capture Energy. He leads the development of standalone utility-scale energy storage projects in New York and other RTOs. He thrives in the cross-functional nature of his role: identifying and solving for market and policy hurdles to unlock the energy storage value-stack followed by executing against all stages of a project's lifecycle including prospecting, development, contracting, and deployment. Whether at work or in his personal life, Taylor thrives amongst a diversity of experiences and opinions.








