Mohammad Zadeh is a senior principal electrical engineer at ETAP, Irvine, CA, USA. He has over 19 years of experience in the area of power system protection and control, including 6 years of academic career and 12 years of industrial experience. Mohammad is an IEEE Senior member and registered professional engineer in the state of California. Mohammad has authored about 75 technical papers and holds 11 US patents (8 granted) and 3 pending.

Stefan Cich is a Group Leader in the Machinery Section at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in San Antonio, TX. He holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. His professional experience over the last 9 years has been focused around the design, analysis, and development of high pressure equipment and turbomachinery. His first job for two years focused on high pressure hydraulic fracturing equipment. While at SwRI, his main focus has been on various advanced turbines and compressors for a variety of applications. Much of it has been on the development and testing of equipment for use in super critical CO2 power cycles. This includes multiple 16 MWe turbines, 2.5 MW compressors, 5.5 MW to 55 MW recuperators, and a 2 MW heater along with all the necessary equipment to fully operate a power loop. Through all of this, he has gained experience in various ASME and API codes, design and manufacturing of advanced equipment through advanced manufacturing processes, complex stress and thermal analysis of high temperature and high pressure equipment, and testing and operating procedures of new age power cycles.

Malcolm Woolf is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Hydropower Association.

Woolf comes to NHA after decades of experience in the energy and environment field. He was a Senior Vice President with Advanced Energy Economy and has extensive markets experience. He served in a cabinet level position for Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley where he worked to promote affordable, reliable, clean energy, and he also led energy policy for the National Governors Association.

Woolf has experience in both the executive branch and Capitol Hill having served at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and as a Congressional committee staff member.

Woolf earned his law degree, as well as a Masters of Public Administration and Public Policy, from the University of Virginia. He holds a B.A. magna cum laude from Tufts University, with a year at Pembroke College, Oxford University.