Board of Directors

Mark Martinez

Mark is a senior program manager for Southern California Edison, with over 25 years’ experience in the design and management of electric demand side management programs. He currently is in the policy and guidance lead for SCE’s demand response (DR) Emerging Markets and Technology suite of pilots and programs that include load management, storage, water-energy nexus (WEN) and integrated distributed energy resources (IDER).

Previously, Mark was the senior policy advisor for the Strategy and Compliance group as the statewide lead for the Integrated Demand Side Management (IDSM) task force and the lead compliance manager for the current DR, WEN, and IDER proceedings. He is now coordinating SCE’s Emerging Products strategy and program policy engagement, working with regulators, market innovators, and state and local agencies to enhance IDSM software and technologies that can support SCEs Grid Modernization efforts to enable customer choice and reduce costs while increasing reliability.

Mary Ann Piette, Vice-Chairman

Mary Ann Piette is the Associate Lab Director of the Energy Technologies Area (ETA) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. This area includes the Building Technology & Urban Systems (BTUS), Energy Analysis & Environmental Impacts, and Energy Storage & Distributed Resources divisions. She manages a research enterprise comprised of about 700 staff and affiliates, including 120 principal investigators working across a broad set of technology R&D programs to accelerate decarbonization ranging from demand-side energy efficiency and grid integration to hydrogen technologies, energy storage, and renewable energy systems. As a Senior Scientist her personal research interests include new building technologies, modeling, and analysis; commercial and residential building systems integration; grid interactive communications and integration with electric vehicles, energy storage, and photovoltaics. Piette leads the new California Load Flexibility Research and Deployment Hub (CalFlexHub) pioneering new technologies, and advanced communication and controls to enable buildings and EVs to receive automated dynamic pricing and GHG signals. Piette has authored over 115 peer reviewed publications related to energy systems, and she recently won a Lifetime Achievement Award at Berkeley Lab for her work in energy-efficient and grid-interactive buildings research. As part of energy modeling teams at Berkeley Lab, she has received two R&D 100 awards for the tools to evaluate commercial building and city-level energy efficiency and decarbonization strategies. She is a board member of the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy where she chairs the Research Advisory Board.

Albert Chiu, Secretary/Treasurer

Albert Chiu is a Lead Product Manager in the Integrated Demand Side Management (IDSM) Department at Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E). In his 12 years in IDSM, he has developed and implemented residential, 3rd party, low income, commercial and local government energy efficiency and demand response programs for utility customers. He is the lead of the DR Technology and Solutions Team in the Demand Response Emerging Market Department at PG&E and his team is also responsible for all Auto DR/PLS technologies development and implementation. At PG&E, he focuses on how to utilize the new technologies to integrated DR with CA electric Wholesale Market and addressing Intermittent Renewable Resource challenges.

Albert chairs the OpenADR Task Force within the Utility Communication Architect Internal User Group (UCAIug) and serves at the OpenADR Alliance board of directors. He also participates in the NIST National Smart Grid activities such as Priority Action Plan 3, 4 and 9. He is in multiple Technical Advisor Groups with CA universities and national labs.

Sunil Goyal

Sunil is an Advance project leader at Ford Motor Company with over 20 years of experience in software delivery and business process improvement.  Since 2018, Sunil has been engaged in the development of the technical strategy for OVGIP (Open Vehicle Grid Integration Platform), which will enable smooth and easy integration of OEM and utilities. Sunil is responsible for leading advanced pilot planning for Grid Services and Energy Services. This includes the development of new business partnerships as well as defining platform opportunities that can improve business efficiency and effectiveness with our external partners. He currently working in Ford's energy service team in model e and focusing on developing in-house capabilities of manage charging using telematics.

Geoff Wickes

Geoff’s career spans the fields of instrumentation, controls, manufacturing, construction, information technology corporate energy management and Utility Market transformation programs. During his professional development, he has been integral in three high tech start-up companies, and has a strong foundation in applied business practices, project management, talent development and operational management. Energy Efficiency and Market Transformation has been his calling since he obtained his LEED 2.0-accredited professional designation in 2004.
He has a strong interest and desire to make a difference in the field of energy efficiency and demand response. Current focus of work is Heat Pump Water Heaters both unitary and central systems along with the connected element for demand response, load shifting and the integration of renewables (CTA 2045 / EcoPort specifically).