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 leads the National Hydropower Association (NHA), the national trade association representing America’s water power industry as its president and CEO.

NHA’s 350+ hydropower, pumped storage, and marine energy member companies operate in 48 states and together provide reliable, secure, and emission-free electricity to an estimated 25 million households and businesses.

Under Woolf’s tenure, NHA secured a level playing field with other emission-free resources in recent federal legislation. NHA also launched the Clean Currents annual North American water power conference and trade show, and the Hydro Academy, offering industry training programs. Woolf also negotiated a historic collaboration between hydropower industry, river conservation groups and climate advocates, known as the Uncommon Dialogue.

Woolf has decades of experience at the intersection of clean energy, policy and business. Malcolm previously led policy advocacy for Advanced Energy Economy, a multi- technology association of clean energy businesses. He also served as the Cabinet-level head of the Maryland Energy Administration and energy advisor to Governor Martin O’Malley, receiving national recognition for designing and implementing an ambitious sustainability legislative package that, a decade later, reduced Maryland’s carbon emissions more than any other state (30%) and resulted in lifetime energy savings in excess of $8 billion.

Woolf previously served as: director of the National Governors Association’s Natural Resources Committee, counsel to the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, senior attorney with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and an associate at the law firms of Winston & Strawn and DLA Piper.

Frequently quoted in media outlets, Woolf has been appointed to multiple federal advisory boards, twice elected chair of the National Association of State Energy Officials, and recognized by Harvard’s JFK School for launching “one of the top 25 innovations in American government.” He currently serves on the Board of the Business Counsel for Sustainable Energy and the United States Energy Association (USEA).

Woolf earned his law degree, as well as a Masters of Public Administration and Public Policy, from the University of Virginia. He received his B.A. magna cum laude from Tufts University, with a year at Pembroke College, Oxford University. Woolf is the proud dad of two daughters, and lives with his wife and dogs in Annapolis, MD. When not touring a hydropower facility, Woolf can be found sailing or kayaking on the Chesapeake Bay, reading in his hammock, or writing historical fiction.