Jacob Phillips is Senior Corporate Counsel at the Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc. (MISO) in Carmel, Indiana.  He has a unique role in managing legal affairs for one of the world's largest electric grid operators, and played a key role in developing MISO’s cyber security vendor management program. Jacob oversees a variety of corporate legal matters, from contracts and cyber security compliance to intellectual property and dispute resolution.

Prior to joining MISO, Jacob honed his legal expertise in various roles, including as an enforcement attorney at the Midwest Reliability Organization and as an intellectual property project manager at the Energy & Environmental Research Center. With over 15 years of diverse legal experience, Jacob has developed a comprehensive understanding of corporate legal matters, regulatory compliance, enforcement, and intellectual property management across the energy sector.

Jacob holds a Juris Doctor from Mitchell Hamline College of Law, a Bachelor of Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is licensed to practice law in Indiana.  

Anuj Sanghvi is a cybersecurity researcher and network security engineer with the Secure Cyber Energy Systems Group. He leads the research and development of NREL's Distributed Energy Resources Cybersecurity Framework (DERCF), and his expertise is in identifying security controls for and testing of industrial control systems. As a research engineer, Sanghvi has done intensive research in building the DERCF assessment questions and developing reference architecture models for electric vehicle extreme fast charging infrastructure. He is also the lead of NREL's initiative in cybersecurity for water power with a multiyear, multilab Department of Energy Water Power Technology Office Cybersecurity Value-at-Risk Framework project.