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Tim Webley

Job Title: 
Supervisor, Transformer Shop
Organization: 
Salt River Project

I graduated from SRP’s substation electrician program in 2008. I worked in our transformer shop as a journeyman electrician since 2010. I became supervisor of the transformer shop in November 2019 where I’m still employed today.

Sam Cutruzzulla

Job Title: 
Sustainable Solutions Manager
Organization: 
Salt River Project

Sam Cutruzzula is the Sustainable Solutions Manager for Salt River Project in Phoenix, Arizona. His organization is responsible for measuring and reducing municipal and industrial solid waste for SRP’s 2035 Sustainability waste reduction goals, investment recovery of all retired assets, renewing spare parts for power distribution, shredding metal, conductor, wire, and cyber assets for recycling, mail, and package distribution. He also represents SRP as the point of contact for the Sustainable Supply Chain Alliance (EUISSCA). Sam has held a variety of Supply Chain positions at SRP, Motorola, Freescale Semiconductor, and Tokyo Electron Limited. He has led teams through multiple ERP implementations including SAP and Ariba, inventory reduction efforts, global new construction projects, Supply Chain restructuring, and warehouse automation. Sam holds a Masters in Global Management from University of Phoenix, is a Green Business Certification, Inc. Certified True Advisor, Solid Waste Association of North America Zero Waste Certification, Institute for Supply Management Certified Purchasing Manager, a Six-Sigma green belt, and Project Management certification through Arizona State University.

Greyson Metili

Job Title: 
Head of Africa Operations
Organization: 
Engie Energy Access

Greyson is the Head of Africa Operations for Engie Energy Access (previously Mobisol UK Ltd). Greyson is responsible for operations and supply chain in 9 markets where EEA operates in Africa, focusing on the strategic planning & ordering process, product quality management, product end of life management and circularity activities, lean improvements, and process standardisation among other core logistics tasks (importation, shipping, distribution, inventory management, last mile) etc. Previously, he has worked for Dominion Universal (a subsidiary of Paymenex UK in Tanzania); a Money Payment & Real Time Gross Settlement Solutions (RTGS) for B2B, a Civil and Building Construction Company, and a Textiles Industry in Tanzania. Greyson holds an MBA in Logistics Management from Coventry University, and BSC in Production & Operations Management (Industrial Management) from Mzumbe University in Tanzania, and is CSCP, ASCIM, CMILT certified. Greyson has been awarded twice by the Top 100 Executives List in the Category of COO of the year 2021 and 2022. Greyson has been co-chair of the circularity working group at GOGLA (the Global industry association for off-grid companies) and has participated (among the 6-member founding companies) to establish the PRO in Kenya which initially started as a MoU named the Kenya Solar Waste Collective.

USEA Now - December 2022

November 30th, 2022
USEA Now

Market and Opportunities Assessment South Asia Report Launch

December 15th, 2022
Join us for the report launch on "Market and Opportunities Assessment for Mobilizing Private Sector Participation and Investment to Support Energy Sector Transition in South Asia" and discussions on the relevance of findings for the region. This report identifies the critical financing gaps and private sector engagement opportunities alongside recommending financing and non-financing interventions to address these gaps. 

Hitendra Chaturvedi

Job Title: 
Professor of Practice – W. P. Carey Supply Chain Management
Organization: 
Arizona State University

Hitendra comes to Arizona State University after a successful exit from a pioneering reverse logistics start-up in India called GreenDust which he founded where he raised multi-million venture funds from the likes of Kliener Perkins Caufield and Bauer and built a lasting legacy in India.

A computer engineer from IIT Roorkee with an MS and MBA from US, Hitendra started his career in 1995 working as a consultant for Ernst & Young and then for A.T. Kearney. Consulting acted as a catalyst to Hitendra’s first start-up experience in through an Austin Venture funded company. Family reasons dictated a move to Seattle with Microsoft where Hitendra worked in Competitive Strategy, Marketing, and OEM supply chain.

A celebrated author, Hitendra sits on advisory committees of many start-ups and incubators, guest speaks at numerous universities, and has been widely covered in press and media as a subject matter expert on global supply chain strategy, green/sustainability in supply chain, digitizing traditional supply chains, and reverse logistics.

Hitendra believes that his teaching philosophy is molded in a big part by his zest of life and continuous learning which is demonstrated in the fact that he has found time to fly airplanes, make wine, paint, scuba dive, sku dive, ride motorcycles, travel 75 countries…and most importantly, spend quality time with his family.

School: 
Arizona State University

Raj Buch

Job Title: 
Director of Business Development
Organization: 
Arizona State University

Raj Buch has been instrumental in collaboratively building ASU’s Rob and Melani Walton Sustainability Solutions Service since 2012, a hybrid, university-based sustainability solutions knowledge and discovery practice, with applied research and solutions development work. He currently serves in multiple inter-related roles at ASU.

As Director of Business Development, Raj drives the Solution Service’s efforts to co-create transformative solutions for sustainability challenges faced by organizations around the world by linking ASU researchers to funding agencies, and by fostering partnerships with the public and private sectors, foundations and NGOs.

As Circular Economy Practice Lead, he integrates various disciplines across the university to co-create and advance ethical circular economy knowledge, discovery and solutions, and by building collaborative networks with domestic and international governmental, philanthropic and private sector funders and implementing partners. In this role, Raj played a critical role in building the successful partnership with the $2.75 million City of Phoenix Resource Innovation and Solutions Network (RISN) program that led to research and applied projects to design systemic circular economy solutions at local and regional scales, including the RISN Incubator. He has also built curricula and taught classes on ethical circular economy for graduate students and professionals and conducted workshops.

As Director of Sustainability Practice with ASU’s International Development office, he leads ASU’s pursuit of sustainability-related funding opportunities with USAID and other international development funders, building the necessary partnerships with international development firms, and aligning ASU’s capabilities in the many sustainability-related sectors in the international development realm.

Profile Type: 
Speaker
School: 
Arizona State University

Climate Risk Management: Key Lessons from U.S. Utilities

December 12th, 2022

A Practical Guide to Asset Recovery and Circular Economy for Electric Utilities

December 5th, 2022

View the webinar recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWlLNOy685w&t=191s 

Energy Management Webinar: Integration of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) Onto The Grid

December 7th, 2022

In this  installment of USEA's Energy Management webinar series hosted by USAID's Bureau for Development, Democracy, and Innovation (DDI), we were pleased to host experts from NREL, CAISO and XM. Joining from NREL was Omar Guerra, a research engineer within the Grid Planning and Analysis Center; from CAISO Guillermo Bautista, Director, Market Analysis and Forecasting, and from XM, Jaime Alonso Castillo Marin joined from the planning office .  Together they discussed:

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