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Tem Tumurbat

Job Title: 
Co-founder and Managing Partner
Organization: 
Nomadic Venture Partners

Tem is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Nomadic Venture Partners, where he focuses on fund strategy, fundraising, portfolio construction, valuation, and financial analysis.

Prior to co-founding NVP, Tem was an investment professional at Resource Capital Funds (RCF), a mining focused private equity investment firm, managing early to late stage investments. He de-risked companies, commercialized their businesses and successfully completed M&As that delivered hundreds of millions of dollars to investors.

Prior to RCF, Tem worked for Newmont Mining Corporation as a mining engineer and then project engineer. Tem also co-founded MNG Summit, a non-profit organization supporting Mongolian students and early career professionals.

He started his professional career as an entrepreneur where he started and operated a transportation company in college to help pay for college tuition and support extended family.

He served as board member and treasurer of the Colorado Chapter for the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SME) as well as a board member of the Ulaanbaatar-Denver Committee for the Denver Sister Cities. Tem received his B.S. in Mining Engineering from Colorado School of Mines. During his free time, he likes to golf, hike, cycle, and spend time with his wife and two kids.

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USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 11: Transmission Insights & FERC Order 2023

January 10th, 2024

Yvonne Fatiaki

Job Title: 
Manager Legal,
Organization: 
Energy Fiji Limited (EFL)

Yvonne Fatiaki is currently the Manager of the Legal department at Energy Fiji Limited, where she has worked for the past nine years. In her current role, she reports directly to the CEO of EFL to advise on energy projects, construction, personnel, commercial law, and land acquisition. Additionally, Yvonne works closely with many government agencies to establish joint agreement terms for power developments – and with other Pacific Island Countries (PICs) as needed. She serves a key role in liaising with the Judiciary agency, the Solicitor-General’s Office, and the Attorney-General’s Office. Yvonne received her degree (LLB) and postgraduate at Bond University in Queensland, Australia. She was admitted to the Supreme Court of Qld in 2002 and the High Court of Fiji in 2002. She has been practicing as both a Barrister and Solicitor in Fiji since 2002. Her law specialization includes energy, construction, commercial law, property, banking & insurance, and criminal & civil law. 

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Kimberly Santiago

Job Title: 
Senior Manager
Organization: 
ACEN Corporation

Kimberly Santiago currently serves as a Senior Manager at ACEN Corporation where she manages the solar farm utility scale portfolio. Previously she served as Vice President of Operations with Upgrade Energy Philippines, where she spent 8 years working on solar rooftop development, design, and construction. Kim created her mark in the women in energy space when she was recently shortlisted for the Women of the Future Awards 2023 under the Construction and Infrastructure category alongside other women leaders in the Southeast Asia region. Additionally, Kim participated as a mentee in the first cohort of the Female Leaders in Energy program implemented by USEA from 2021 to 2023. Kim received her degree in Materials Engineering from the University of the Philippines and has been in the energy industry for over 10 years.
 

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Häly Laasme

Job Title: 
Delaware Energy Assistance Director
Organization: 
State of Delaware

Häly Laasme is currently the State of Delaware’s Energy Assistance Director. In June 2022, she also started as a Bloomberg Fellow at John Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, focusing on Environmental Challenges. She serves on the Governance Board of NEUAC and previously served on the Board of Directors of NEADA from 2016 to 2023 as well as on the Executive Committee of the Energy Services Coalition from 2020 to 2022. In 2021, she was among the Top 500 Global Sustainability Thought Leaders and she became a referee for the peer-reviewed Energy Journal administered by the IAEE. She advocates for increasing transparency in methodologies used for energy access indicators, energy access to be included in the human rights framework, and increasing global collaboration in energy justice. If the schedule allows, she enjoys participating in the World Women’s Forum for Economy and Society that advocates for transforming the power of women’s voices and perspectives into forward-thinking economic and policy initiatives for societal change.  

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Ruth Yu-Owen

Job Title: 
President,
Organization: 
Upgrade Energy Philippines, and Co-Founder, Connected Women

Ruth is a passionate women's empowerment advocate with a focus on creating opportunities for women in the online workforce and the future of work. She is the Co-Founder of Connected Women, a social impact tech startup that provides socially responsible AI & digital task outsourcing and job creation through inclusive innovation.

Connected Women aims to increase household income and create livelihood opportunities for Filipino women through technology upskilling and reskilling, ensuring that no woman is left behind. In her "day job", Ruth has almost 20 years of experience in the field of renewable energy, developing wind power, hydropower, and solar projects. She is the President of the Upgrade Energy Philippines.

She is Chairperson on Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency of the European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines and Vice President for Internal Affairs for the Philippine Energy Efficiency Alliance (PE2).

Dr. Norasikin Ahmad Ludin

Job Title: 
Associate Professor and Deputy Director
Organization: 
Solar Energy Research Inst of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Norasikin Ahmad Ludin holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry (Solar Photovoltaic Technology) from the University of Wales, United Kingdom in 2012. Currently, she is an Associate Professor/Deputy Director of Solar Energy Research Institute, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. She has been in the field of renewable energy for more than 20 years. Her specialization is on advanced materials for solar photovoltaic and the impact analysis of the technologies (environment and economic). Her research interest includes energy policy, LCA, LCCA, and end of life (EoL) management of renewable energy systems.

Dr. Ludin has been awarded the Top Research Scientist Malaysia (TRSM) 2022. She has published and presented more than 100 papers in high-impact journals, books, proceedings, and conferences. She acts as a project leader and co-researcher for international and national grants related to renewable energy with cumulative total of USD2.5 million (2011-2021). She also supervised more than 40 local and international postgraduate students (MSc and PhD) in related renewable energy areas. She was appointed as a Visiting Professor at Claremont McKenna College University, California, USA in 2018 and a Visiting Researcher at Tokyo University of Science, Japan in 2016.

She is the ASEAN COSTI Sustainable Energy Committee, APEC Project Overseer and a working group member at Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA). She is also a Certified Energy Manager (CEM), a member of Royal Society of Chemistry, United Kingdom, and a committee member of Malaysia Energy Professionals Association (MEPA). Recently, she completed an Executive Education on Circular Economy and Sustainability Strategies from Cambridge University, United Kingdom.

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Anggita Pradipta

Job Title: 
Group Head of Marketing
Organization: 
SUN Group

Anggita Pradipta is a Group Head of Marketing of SUN Group, a leading integrated solar energy in Indonesia that secured 280 MWp in 4 countries. She served 4 business pillars, including a renewable energy foundation to electrify rural areas in Indonesia. Anggita is also an Executive Committee Member of Outreach & Communication of Indonesia Solar Energy Association (AESI) from 2021-2024. She has held key strategic positions in prominent companies, Allianz, Trakindo (Indonesia’s Caterpillar Distributor), and Kompas, playing leading roles in strategic marketing, market research, crisis communication management, corporate value transformation, public relations, corporate communications, and journalist.

She has two kids, a 12-year-old daughter and a 9-year-old son. She often spends her free time running, watching movies, and listening to music.

Donna Priadi

Job Title: 
Country Director
Organization: 
Vriens & Partners

Ms. Donna Priadi joined Vriens & Partners as the Country Director for Indonesia operations in August 2020. Previously, Donna worked as the Director of Corporate & Government Affairs at General Electric (GE) Indonesia, covering energy, healthcare, and aviation industry. She has 25 years of experience in the Energy and Oil and Gas industry, starting with ARCO, BP, Pertamina, and GE. Donna has been responsible for various positions, from project engineer, commercial, business development, public relations, and corporate communications to corporate and government affairs. Donna graduated from Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), Indonesia, with an Architecture Engineering degree and an MBA degree from the University of San Francisco.

Juliet Homer

Job Title: 
Team Lead of the Energy Policy Analytics Team
Organization: 
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Juliet Homer is team lead of the Energy Policy Analytics Team within the Energy Policy and Economics Group at PNNL. She is a professional engineer with expertise in the changing electric power grid and associated changes to planning, policy, and regulation. Juliet's work at PNNL centers on electric integrated distribution system planning with distributed energy resources. She also works on planning, operation, and governance issues associated with integrated water and power systems. Juliet also supports the distributed wind portfolio at PNNL. Juliet regularly works with state public utility commissions and state energy offices around the United States on issues of characterizing, valuing, and planning for distributed energy resources.

Before joining PNNL, Juliet worked as a utility analyst with the Oregon Public Utility Commission where she managed the review of electricity and natural gas utility resource planning dockets. She also performed economic analyses of utility-proposed energy efficiency, renewable energy, and grid modernization investments. Juliet previously worked at Greeley and Hansen, LLC, a multi-national engineering consulting firm where she was a project engineer on water and wastewater planning and design projects in Arizona. Juliet holds a master’s degree in civil and environmental engineering from Arizona State University.

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