Conference Speakers

Vice President of Commercial Analytics

Invenergy

With more than twenty years of electric power industry experience, Ken Parkhill heads Invenergy’s Commercial Analytics group which forecasts economic operations at Invenergy existing and future clean power projects, including generation and transmission. Previously, Mr. Parkhill was a Supervisor of Portfolio Analytics for Ameren Energy Marketing and Founder of Thornwood Management Company, a FTR portfolio management company. Mr. Parkhill is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin; he has an MS and PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Minnesota and an MBA from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Industry Solutions Executive

Hitachi Energy

Ms. Cavaliere is an Industry Solutions Executive at Hitachi Energy and specializes in product support, development, technical sales and innovation on Hitachi’s decision support tools including, PROMOD, Gridview, Velocity Suite and Capacity Expansion. In this role, Ms. Cavaliere has in depth experience with data modeling across a broad range of markets including Japan, Europe, WECC, ERCOT, MISO, PJM and SPP. Ms. Cavaliere has been with Hitachi Energy for over 17 years and has been a speaker at multiple energy conferences and events.  Her previous roles at Hitachi Energy include managing product support and training and product management. Ms. Cavaliere holds a B.S. degree from THE Georgia Institute of Technology in Industrial Engineering. Go Jackets!

Ms. Cavaliere has two children, 4 and 6, and enjoys rap music, Judge Judy and beer festivals.