Jesse Berst is Managing Director of Global Smart Energy, Inc., a strategic consulting firm. He is also the founder and Chairman of the Smart Cities Council, an industry coalition led by a dozen of the world’s top technology companies, including AT&T, Cisco, Electricite de France, General Electric, IBM, Itron, Microsoft and others. He was formerly Chief Analyst at SmartGridNews.com, the internet’s largest and highest-ranked smart grid site. Jesse was a co-founder of the Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative, a nonprofit that unites utilities, vendors, and consumer advocates with the goal of accelerating the adoption of a consumer-friendly smart grid. He also serves on the Advisory Council for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, which conducts some of the nation’s most advanced grid research. He sits on the advisory boards of Voyager Capital, a leading West Coast venture capital firm and GridSense, which makes intelligent monitors and sensors for the power grid.

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