The people building physical system intelligence.

Paul is the board representative of Three Curve Capital LP, the family office of Stuart Porter, founder and CEO of Denham Capital Management: a $9.5B+ energy and resources investment advisor. He also serves as Managing Director and General Counsel of Denham, with nearly 25 years of experience as a transactional lawyer across the energy sector.

He sits on the boards of Greenleaf Power, a North American biomass-focused IPP, and Endeavor Energy, an Africa-focused thermal and renewable IPP, among others.

As Director for Micron’s AI Fund and portfolio manager for Comet Labs, Andrew invests in early-stage AI and robotics startups transforming large industries. His focus is in deep tech, industrial automation, and computing hardware that enables the next wave of machine learning innovation.

Prior to Comet, Andrew founded Stower Energy, a startup applying machine learning to predictive operations and maintenance for distributed energy systems, and was a project manager for utility-scale power developer the Martifer Group. He did graduate work in Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford.

Stu Porter is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Investment Officer of Denham Capital, a private equity firm focused on energy and mining. He brings over 30 years of senior investment experience and serves on the firm’s Investment Committee and Valuation Committee.

Prior to founding Denham, Stu was a founding partner of Sowood Capital Management and a Vice President and Portfolio Manager at Harvard Management Company, where he focused on public and private transactions in energy and commodities. Earlier, he worked on the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index desk at J. Aron and traded at the Chicago Board of Trade. He holds a BA from the University of Michigan and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Shashi Menon is Vice President, Digital at SLB (formerly Schlumberger), the largest technology and services provider to the global energy industry. He oversees SLB’s enterprise digital strategy and leads the team responsible for defining, developing, and deploying the company’s digital platform across upstream operations.

Over nearly three decades at SLB, Shashi has built up through software development and technical product management into senior digital and technology roles, including VP of Subsurface Software Technologies, VP of Marketing & Technology for WesternGeco, and VP & Digital Manager for the Exploration & Field Development Platform. His doctoral research at the University of Houston spanned high-performance computing, image processing, and fluid mechanics, a technical lineage that underpins much of what PingThings is building today for industrial-scale time-series infrastructure.

As Vice President, Software for Hubbell Utility Solutions, Leonard leads the design, development, and delivery of enterprise-class cloud-native Industrial IoT solutions for electric, water, and gas distribution utilities. He has more than 30 years of experience across both public and private companies, having held leadership positions as CTO and Global Head of Software Engineering at General Electric, Oracle, Selectica, and Manugistics.

Leonard started his career as a software architect at PeopleSoft pre-IPO, and studied applied mathematics at Odessa University.

Alison is an independent consultant, strategist, and researcher on electric system reliability, resilience, market design, transmission, and technology adoption. Her work on major federal electricity efforts includes the U.S. DOE Staff Report on Electric Markets and Reliability, three national transmission congestion studies, the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative framework, and the industry-wide advancement of synchrophasor technology.

She served as senior advisor to FERC Chairman Pat Wood III from 2001–2004, co-chairing the 2003 U.S.–Canada blackout investigation, and earlier at the Public Utility Commission of Texas, PG&E, and as a consultant in Washington, DC. She serves on the boards of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy and the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians.

Sascha is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley, where she teaches Electric Power Systems. She is also Director of CIEE’s Electric Grid program area, focused on power distribution, smart-grid integration, and distributed and intermittent generation.

Her research centers on high-precision micro-synchrophasor measurements for situational awareness, diagnostics, and control in distribution grids, the body of work directly upstream of PredictiveGrid’s storage and stream-processing architecture.