CESMII Governance Board (Board of Directors)

CESMII’s mission is critical to driving our industry forward to greater energy savings, higher levels of quality, performance and agility.  As part of this initiative, we’ve worked hard to attract the best and brightest from our ecosystem, to help guide that mission.  Our Board of Directors is no acception.

Mark Besser

Vice President
Savigent

Katherine Cahalane

CEO
Bennit AI

Gregory Colvin

Technical Fellow
Honeywell

Kenneth Creasy, PhD

Senior Director
Johnson & Johnson

Jim Davis, PhD

Vice Provost of Information Technology
UCLA

John Dyck

Chief Executive Officer
CESMII

Jesus Flores

Assoc. Director​
Praxair – Linde​

Alison Gotkin

Associate Director of Strategic Business Development
United Technologies Research Center (UTRC)

Robert Graybill

President & CEO
Nimbis

Louis Grice

Vice President, Digitalization and Government Affairs
Phoenix Contact

Howard Harary, PhD

Director of Engineering Laboratory (retired)
NIST

Simon Jacobson

Vice President
Gartner

Kevin Jones

CEO
ECM ​Performance​ Materials

Pramod Khargonekar, PhD

Vice Chancellor
UC Irvine

Nathan Lasnoski

Chief Technology Officer
Concurrency, Inc.

Doug Lawson

Chief Executive Officer
ThinkIQ

Michael McKittrick

Technology Manager
Federal Program Officer for CESMII

Michelle Pastel

Senior Manager, Manufacturing
Corning Incorporated

Sudarsan Rachuri PhD

Technology Manager
Federal Program Officer for CESMII

Tyler A. Soderstrom PhD

Senior Engineering Associate
ExxonMobil Research and Engineering

Scott Whitlock

CEO
Flexware Innovation Inc.

Ricardo Vazquez

Economic Policy Manager
Los Angeles Mayor Office

Lisa Zasada

Director of Reliability & Improvement
General Mills