Dr. David Kathan is a former Senior Economist with the Office of Energy Policy and Innovation at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and currently serves as President of Kathan Energy Consulting, a boutique consulting firm focused on electric power issues, demand response, DER and grid modernization. Dr. Kathan retired from the Commission at the end of 2022 after 20 years at the Commission. At FERC, Dr. Kathan worked on market design issues, including demand response, scarcity pricing, and resource adequacy. Dr. Kathan was the project lead for numerous projects, including the Commission’s rulemaking proceeding on incorporating DER aggregation into the wholesale market that resulted in Order No. 2222 and the commission’s demand response report required by the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Prior to joining FERC, Dr. Kathan was a Principal at ICF Consulting, where he consulted on economic, environmental, and quantitative issues related to the electric power industry, with a focus on demand response and electric system modeling. Dr. Kathan received his B.A. from Grinnell College in Economics, and his Ph.D. in Public Policy and Management from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Richard (Rick) Mroz was the president of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) from 2014 to 2018. He is the founder and managing director of Resolute Strategies, LLC and also Senior Director for Strategic & Regulatory Affairs at Archer Public Affairs in Trenton, New Jersey. He has a long career in law and government and is an advocate in securing and making the grid more resilient from cyber and physical attacks. He is an adviser to industry and commentator on energy and security issues.

Governor Chris Christie nominated him to be BPU president on September 18, 2014; the nomination was unanimously approved by the New Jersey Senate on September 22, 2014.[1] As president, Mroz was a member of the Governor's Cabinet.@jimwalsh_cp-2">[2] His experiences are as a regulator, lawyer, lobbyist, banker, consultant and thought leader on issues including energy markets & technologies, cybersecurity, water & wastewater policy, and infrastructure development & financing in various industries.

In July 2018 Mroz was appointed by United States Energy Secretary Rick Perry as a member of the USDOE Electric Advisory Committee which provides advice to the department programs and priorities on issues of the evolving grid, distributed energy resources, and reliability of the electric system. He serves on the advisory board to the ClearPath Foundation a Washington, DC based policy organization advocating for policies advancing cleaner energy generation with hydropower, carbon capture, and new nuclear technologies.

Richard Mroz is also senior adviser to Protect Our Power, a national non-industry non-profit advocacy organization supporting best practices and investments in cybersecurity for the energy, utility and critical infrastructure industries. He is a Distinguished Corporate Fellow advising the Global Resilience Institute (GRI) at Northeastern University, Boston, MA on protection and investments necessary to enhance and protect critical infrastructure.

Don Moul, executive vice president and chief operating officer, has nearly 35 years of experience in all areas of power generation and operations. He possesses a strong track record of enhancing operational performance and teamwork through a disciplined and collaborative leadership approach.

With primary responsibility for TVA’s power generation, transmission, and power supply functions, Don serves in a key leadership role at TVA. With one of the nation’s most resilient, diverse generation portfolios, he will lead TVA’s industry-leading efforts to provide increasingly cleaner energy.

Don also leads a number of other mission-critical areas of TVA’s business, including Safety, Integrated River System Management; Natural Resources; Environment; Supply Chain; Major Projects; Facilities Management; TVA Police and Emergency Management; and Enterprise Improvement.

In his role, Don is focused on delivering high reliability, low cost and operational excellence with safety as the highest priority. His work in directing TVA’s state-of-the-art grid modernization applies technological innovations to creating the energy system of the future that will be ideally positioned to meet emerging customer demands. In addition, Don oversees TVA’s River Forecast Center that helped prevent more than $1 billion in potential flood damage in fiscal year 2020 alone. 

Throughout his career, Don has held a variety of leadership positions, primarily in nuclear divisions, with American Electric Power, Duquesne Light Company, FirstEnergy Corporation, GPU Nuclear Corporation and Public Service Electric & Gas.

Before joining TVA in June 2021, Don was executive vice president and chief nuclear officer at NextEra Energy where he was responsible for the safe and reliable operation of NextEra’s nuclear fleet, which includes seven operating units at five plant sites. He also oversaw decommissioning activities at Duane Arnold Energy Center.

From 2004 to 2019, Don served in a variety of leadership roles at FirstEnergy Corporation, including leading the nuclear and fossil generation, transmission and distribution, commodity operations and environmental compliance functions. Under his leadership, the First Energy nuclear fleet achieved its best-ever outage and total-cost performance, while maintaining exemplary INPO continuous monitoring ratings in 2018.

Don also previously served as vice president for FirstEnergy Commodity Operations, focused on power production and retail supply in the PJM Markets. He also served as president of Ohio Edison and Penn Power – two of FirstEnergy’s operating companies.

Don earned a bachelor of science in nuclear engineering from The Pennsylvania State University and an MBA from the University of Notre Dame. He also has been a senior reactor operator at multiple nuclear stations.