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Steve Gaw

Job Title: 
Former Speaker of the Missouri House and PSC Chair
Former Speaker of the Missouri House from 1996-2001. Commissioner with the Missouri Public Service Commission serving as Chair during part of his tenure. Missouri Attorney having been in general practice as an associate and partner in North Central Missouri law firm. Consultant for the Wind Coalition on transmission and related electric policy issues in the Southwest Power Pool and for the American Wind Energy Association on matters pertaining to state regulatory policies.

Pat Reiten

Job Title: 
Senior Vice President, Public Policy
Organization: 
Berkshire Hathaway Energy

Patrick Reiten, 62, is senior vice president, public policy at Berkshire Hathaway Energy. Reiten is responsible for leading the national policy and legislative work of Berkshire Hathaway Energy, a $134 billion portfolio of locally managed businesses that share a vision for a secure and sustainable energy future.

Reiten is a seasoned energy executive who has served as president and CEO of PacifiCorp Transmission and Pacific Power, both at PacifiCorp, joining the company in September 2006. Before becoming part of Berkshire Hathaway Energy’s team, Reiten was president and CEO of PNGC Power, an energy cooperative located in Portland, Oregon. 

In his early career, Reiten was an aide to U.S. Sen. Mark O. Hatfield, with responsibilities including issues before the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. He also served as an official in several different capacities at the U.S. Department of Interior, including acting as deputy director of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

Reiten has served in many director or board leadership roles in community and industry groups. He is currently a director of Legacy Health System, the Oregon Community Foundation, and the American Council on Renewable Energy. He also represents Berkshire Hathaway Energy on the board of Electric Transmission Texas LLC.

USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 14: Berkshire Hathaway Energy SVP of Public Policy Pat Reiten

February 2nd, 2024
In today’s podcast, Berkshire Hathaway Energy Senior Vice President, Public Policy, Pat Reiten answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about what Pacific Power wanted from its early work on a real-time Western energy imbalance market, what it wants from the emerging day-ahead energy market, and what a full regional transmission system and energy market could mean for the West.

Defensible Architecture and Asset Management for Electric Utility Cybersecurity

February 22nd, 2024

Defensible architecture is the way that the utility should approach organizing their network, both enterprise and operational. Asset management supports this effort by maintaining insight into the assets on the organization’s network. This webinar covers best practices for utilities when developing defensible architecture and conducting asset management. The webinar will address the difference between planning for security during new deployment (e.g., integrating a distributed energy resources management system) vs.

Justin Searle

Job Title: 
Director of ICS Security
Organization: 
InGuardians

Justin Searle is the Director of ICS Security at InGuardians, specializing in ICS security architecture design and penetration testing.  He led the Smart Grid Security Architecture group in the creation of NIST Interagency Report 7628 and played critical roles in the Advanced Security Acceleration Project for the Smart Grid (ASAP-SG), National Electric Sector Cybersecurity Organization Resources (NESCOR), and Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP). 

Justin has taught hacking techniques, forensics, networking, and intrusion detection courses for multiple universities, corporations, and security conferences.  His current courses at SANS and Black Hat are among the world's most attended ICS cybersecurity courses.  Justin is currently a Senior Instructor for the SANS Institute and a faculty member at IANS. In addition to electric power industry conferences, he frequently presents at top international security conferences such as Black Hat, DEFCON, OWASP, HITBSecConf, Brucon, Shmoocon, Toorcon, Nullcon, Hardware.io, and AusCERT. 

Justin leads prominent open-source projects, including The Control Thing Platform, Samurai Web Testing Framework (SamuraiWTF), and Samurai Security Testing Framework for Utilities (SamuraiSTFU).  He has an MBA in International Technology and is a CISSP and SANS GIAC certified Incident Handler (GCIH), Intrusion Analyst (GCIA), Web Application Penetration Tester (GWAPT), and GIAC Industrial Control Security Professional (GICSP). 

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Speaker

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