Boosting Manufacturing Revenue via Energy Management: Playing the Utility Market

Ben Sigrin | Senior Product Manager | GridBeyond

Ben (“see-grin”) Sigrin is a senior product manager at GridBeyond where he leads development of software products that forecast, optimize, and control flexibility services in real time. He is also the principal investigator of a recent competitively-solicited Department of Energy award to deploy GridBeyond’s software platform to autonomously provide ancillary services to the Public Service Company of New Mexico’s power system over the next 3 years.

Mr. Sigrin was previously a senior researcher at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) where participated in seminal power system studies including the Los Angeles 100% renewable energy study and the North American Renewable Integration Study. He also co-invented the dGen model, winning an R&D100 award in 2022. Mr. Sigrin lives in Denver Colorado with his wife and three young daughters.

Joe Hayden | Vice President of Revenue | GridBeyond

Joe is VP of Revenue North America, GridBeyond. As VP of Revenue NA for GridBeyond, Joe brings over 25 years of senior sales leadership experience managing teams across multiple sectors, including electronics, wireless networks, IoTs solutions as well as highly sophisticated automation solutions to the electric utility, security and LED lighting industries.

Prior to joining GridBeyond, Joe lead the ERCOT market as GM and VP for CPower. He also orchestrated nationwide channel partner agreements with top integrators in the US such as JCI, Siemens, and Convergent Technologies while leading sales initiatives with AT&T, Exxon, NIH, and Infinity. Joe received his Marketing degree from Texas Tech University.

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