IEEE Industry Engagement Committee
Industry Engagement Committee facilitates industry engagement activities across IEEE, identifies and acts on opportunities, gaps, and overlaps across IEEE, launches initiatives, and recommends to the IEEE Board needed development of products and services that meet the needs of industry, government, and industry professionals.
Dr. Jessica Bian is an internationally recognized executive leader with decades of success proven through novel transformation strategies that have improved electrical power production, championed regulatory bodies' complex energy challenges, and repositioned agencies in the public sector through integration of renewable energy and deployment of new technologies. In addition, she has established and strengthened relations with stakeholders, partners, boards, and steering committees.
Dr. Bian is also a visionary technical leader and architect, has spearheaded electric industry's reliability metrics and grid risk assessment. Currently she is the Vice President of Grid Services at Grid-X Partners. Before that, she was with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Washington, DC. Previously, she was the Director of Performance Analysis at North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) in Atlanta, Georgia.
Under her leadership, a total of 18 industry-wide reliability indicators were established to determine grid reliability, adequacy, and associated risks. She is widely recognized as a pioneer and trusted world leader in the field. Before joining NERC, Dr. Bian was with PJM, ERCOT and Westinghouse Electric. She earned her Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from the Taiyuan University of Technology, China; Master of Science from the Electric Power Research Institute, Beijing, China; and Ph.D. from Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Dr. Bian is the President-Elect (2020-2021) of the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES). She is an IEEE Senior Member, and was the PES Secretary from 2016 to 2019.
Dr. Don Tan has served as Distinguished Engineer, Fellow, Chief Engineer-PC, Program Manager, Senior Department Manager and Center Director at a US Fortune 500 corporation. Don earned his Ph.D. from Caltech and is an IEEE Fellow.
A prolific visionary technical leader in ultra-efficient power conversion and electronic energy systems, he has pioneered breakthrough innovations with numerous high-impact industry firsts and record performances that received commendations from the highest-level of US Government.
Don received the IEEE PELS Distinguished Achievement Award for Aerospace Power and the IEEE McMurry Award, JESTPE Prize Paper Award, AAEOY Engineer of the Year Award, Distinguished Patent Award, and President Award for Innovation.
His technologies were licensed to major US and international companies. His national standards are used by the EPA’s EnergyStar Program. Don delivered 90+ keynotes/invited presentations globally. He received more than $30M external customer funding for R&D. He serves on several national, IEEE and international awards/selection committees.
Costas Stasopoulos was born in Cyprus, a European Union member State. Then he moved to the United States where I studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Rutgers, New Jersey, USA. He received my B.Sc in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and received a Master in Business Administration (MBA), from the Maastricht Business School of Management, Netherlands. Upon completion of his studies he worked for three years for SITA, the world's leading service provider of integrated IT business solutions and communication services of the air transport industry. Then he moved on to the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC), the major electricity provider of Cyprus with more than 2500 employees, where he held various Engineering Specialist and Management positions. He currently holds the position of Transmission Director one of the four major independent units of EAC with an annual budget of over 35 million dollars being responsible for all its operations and its management. His main interests include Renewable Energy, Electric vehicles, Smart Grids, Smart Metering, Energy Storage and Drones.
Stasopoulos served in the IEEE Board of Directors for two years and for five years in the MGA Board. He was also an MGA Vice Chair head of the MGA GUOS Committee for 2017 and 2020-2021. He held many and different positions in numerous IEEE committees like Member Benefits Committee, Industry Engagement Committee, R8 Awards and Recognitions Committee, IEEE Public Policy Committee, European Public Policy Committee, Continuous Improvement Committee, Region Realignment Committee, two Sections Congress Committees and many others.
Stasopoulos is currently the Chair of the Industry Engagement Committee and the Local Groups Committee.
Ravikiran Annaswamy is the CEO of Numocity Technologies, a global leader in EV Charging solutions. He is very passionate about clean mobility and is contributing to accelerating Electric Mobility in India and the world market. His strategy is on using IOT, Analytics and Deep Learning to accelerate adoption of Electric vehicles and innovate through new business models of Energy as a service.
He has over 30 years of experience; as a successful serial entrepreneur, angel investor and as a business leader at Nokia and Siemens. He is very excited about incubating new start-ups. He was the Co-founder of Deccan Institute of Innovation and Design, Co-Director at Founder Institute (Fi.com) Bangalore, Mentor at NUMA Bangalore and mentor and coach for many early-stage start-ups. He is a charter member of TiE Bangalore
He is passionate about the role of technology and engineering management in the success of startups and product innovations. He is leading efforts globally as the board member and Past President of IEEE Technology and Engineering Management society. He is also a MaL at IEEE Entrepreneurship. Earlier, he held various leadership positions within IEEE at Section and Region Boards.
David Durocher (SBM '77 M '97 SM '99) received a BSEE at Oregon State University. He served as Global Mining, Metals, and Minerals Industry Manager during his 41 year career with Eaton serving in various product engineering, sales, and marketing roles. He has authored papers presented at conferences around the world, published in the IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, IEEE Industry Applications Magazine, World Cement, Engineering & Mining Journal, Plant Engineering, and EC&M Magazine.
Matt Francis, Ph.D. Matt is founder and President/CEO of Ozark Integrated Circuits, Inc. Dr. Francis earned BSEE (’03), BS Physics (’04), MSEE (’07) and PhD (’09) degrees from the University of Arkansas. At Ozark IC, he leads development of high-temperature semiconductor computing solutions for energy, defense, aerospace and space applications, and has served as a remote payload specialist for Ozark IC’s payloads on the International Space Station. Dr. Francis is an expert in the scalable design, manufacturing and assembly of extremely reliable single-board computers, from silicon/silicon carbide semiconductors to advanced packaging, ceramics and test for reliability – including their complex supply chains. Under his leadership Ozark IC has been recognized as a leader in the rugged computing space, evidenced by wins in the MassChallenge accelerator Gold award (2020), the Army XTech Hypersonic Manufacturing Prize (2022), and the American Made Geothermal Prizes (2021-2023). Dr. Francis also serves as a Region Director, Elect (Region 5 USA Southwest), as the IEEE-USA representative to the IEEE Industry Engagement Committee, as past chair of the IEEE MGA Chapter Operations Support Committee and as a Council Member for his city (Elkins, AR). Dr. Francis is passionate about entrepreneurship and growing the next generation of scientists and engineers. He is an IEEE STEM Champion, volunteering weekly with his local robotics club. He is an advisor to science-based startups through the Science Venture Studio, and in 2022 he was the recipient of the IEEE-USA Entrepreneurship Spirit Award for the groundbreaking work of his company, as well as his service in mentoring small-businesses in the deep-technology space. In 2023, he is serving in multiple roles to help stakeholders engage in the CHIPS+ act, including serving as an organizer and treasurer for the first IEEE-USA Innovation Research Workforce Conference (IWRC.ieeeusa.org) scheduled for Sept 13-15 in Little Rock, AR.
Stamatis Karnouskos (IEEE Fellow) is with SAP in Germany, dealing with emerging technologies and enterprise systems, industry standards, and open source. He has over 25 years of extensive experience in research and technology management and has led efforts in several European Commission and industry-funded projects.
Stamatis has served on the technical advisory board of organizations such as the Internet Protocol for Smart Objects Alliance (IPSO), the Permanent Stakeholder Group of the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), and the Research Centre in Digitalization and Intelligent Robotics (CeDRI), etc.
In IEEE, Stamatis serves as Associate Editor in several IEEE journals, is IEEE IES VP on Industrial Activities, a member of the IEEE Industry Engagement Committee (IEC), the IEEE Global Policy Caucus (GPC), and the IEEE European Public Policy Committee (EPPC).
Bao Nguyen is a Senior Analytics Engineer at Adobe with experience building end-to-end data solutions and analytics models. Bao has a proven track record of designing scalable data pipelines, leading complex data migration projects, and driving actionable insights contributing to measurable business growth. Bao holds a Masters in Computer and Information Technology from the University of Pennsylvania, a Masters in Economics from Tufts University, and a Masters in International Business from RMIT University. Bao has successfully executed data-driven projects at leading organizations, including Adobe, Superpedestrian, Uber, and Tripadvisor, demonstrating impactful results such as ARR growth, cost optimizations, and improved customer retention.
Gamal Refai Ahmed, Ph.D., FIEEE, LFASEM, Fellow Canadian Academy of Engineering, Fellow Engineering Institute of Canada, AE, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering, is a distinguished technical executive renowned for his groundbreaking work in thermal management, silicon and power architecture, and advanced packaging technologies. With over two decades of experience at industry giants like AMD, GE, and Cisco, Dr. Refai-Ahmed has led high-impact projects, including pioneering new silicon and thermo-mechanical architectures for advanced technology nodes and enabling innovative packaging technologies for ASIC and embedded FPGA. His tenure at AMD as Senior Fellow and Chief Architect saw him spearheading thermal management solutions for Xilinx products and fostering research collaborations to expand HPC, NIC, AI, and ML ecosystems in data centers. He enhanced thermal management at GE for intelligent platform control systems and healthcare mobile systems, contributing significantly to GE’s patent portfolio. Gamal has also defined technology directions and led projects that improved thermo-mechanical solutions for LED printing and UV LED products. Dr. Refai-Ahmed’s academic background includes a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada, with numerous publications and over 160 US and international granted and pending to his name, as well as more than 120 publications in IEEE, ASME, AIAA conferences and journals. His exemplary contributions have earned him prestigious accolades, including election to the National Academy of Engineering, IEEE Fellow, and the Presidential Medal from Binghamton State University. Actively involved in professional societies, Dr. Refai-Ahmed continues to influence the field through his roles in IEEE and ASME, shaping the future of high-performance computing and advanced packaging solutions.
Ana Cigarán Romero is currently the Head of Cooperation & Compliance at the Digitalization System Operations Division of the German TSO 50Hertz. Previously, Ana worked as a Senior Policy Advisor at the System Operations Division of 50Hertz and was the Convener of the Steering Group Operational Framework under the ENTSO-E System Operations Committee. With her deep knowledge on existing and upcoming European electricity regulations, Mrs. Cigaran Romero advises her company while actively contributing to the design of the operational framework necessary for a safe operation of the energy system in Europe. Furthermore, Ana currently focuses on establishing the necessary cooperations with other system operators (TSOs and DSOs), in Europe and in Germany, to contribute to a resilient energy system and carbon-free future.
Ana is a Senior Member of IEEE and has been an elected and appointed volunteer with special focus on Women in Engineering (WIE) since 2015, holding several leadership positions. She is currently a member of the IEEE IEC Committee.
In 2010, Ana received her degree in electrical engineering from the Comillas University-ICAI in Madrid. In her diploma thesis, Ana analyzed the competitiveness indicators in the Iberian Electricity Market. She conducted her diploma thesis while doing an internship in the Energy Management Direction of Iberdrola.
Mayumi Suzuki is working on areas of healthcare infomatics at Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, as a researcher from 2011 April. She received her Bachelor of Science degree from Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan, in 2009 March and also received a Master of Engineering degree from Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan, in 2011 March. She received the IEEE Region10 Young Professionals Affinity Group Award in 2017 as a Tokyo Young Professionals Chair and IEEE Region10 Young Professionals Volunteer Award - Industry in 2018. She was the Japan Council Educational Activities Coordinator, managing events and strategy for the Japan Council Educational Activities and 9 Sections in Japan. She organized the Japan SYWL workshop twice as Japan SYWL Workshop committee leader as Tokyo YP Chair.
Tiziana Tambosso, (M’94, SM’02) received the Laurea degree with honors in Electronic Engineering and the PhD in Optoelectronics from University of Pavia, Italy, in 1983 and 1988.
She is a Consultant and a Technical Expert for European Commission, H2020-SME Instrument program and Horizon Europe (2021-2027) program. She was co-founder of Tambosso and Associates carrying out projects and market analysis for small and medium companies. She has been Visiting Professor at Da Yeh University, Taiwan, teaching master courses on Green Photonics and Laser Instrumentation.
She has been head of Research Group and Project manager at CSELT-TILAB (1993 to 2005), Head of fiber optic devices group at SIRTI, R&D (1989-93), designer of integrated circuits at SGS Microelectronics (now ST Microelectronics) (1983-1985). She was author of about 80 journals and conference papers and hold twelve patents.
Tiziana’s technical interests include photovoltaic systems, LED technologies, Fiber optic sensors, Laser and Optoelectronics Instrumentation, Wireless sensors networks, Internet of Things, technologies for millimeter waves generation and detection.
From 1993 to 1997 she acted as Secretary and Vice-Chair (1996-1997) of IEC-SC86B international standardization Committee.
For IEEE she has been a volunteer since 1998 serving in different roles. She was co-founder of IEEE Photonics Society Italy Chapter, serving as Secretary, Treasurer and Chair (2002-2012);
For IEEE Photonics Society Membership Council she was AVP for Global Strategy.
For IEEE Italy Section (more than 5000 members) Tiziana was Vice-Chair, Chair (Sept. 2016-Jan. 2019) and Past-Chair; Awards & Recognitions Committee Coordinator, N&A Committee Chair, Chapter Activity Coordinator, Electronic Communication Coordinator, Program Committee Chair, Entrepreneurship Committee Coordinator (2023-2024).
For Region 8 she contributed to the following subcommittees: Chapter Coordination, Action for Industry, Conference, N&A. She is Conference Coordination Committee Chair (2023-2024).
She was member of IEEE N&A Committee and IEEE MGA N&A Committee. She acted as TPC Chair, Steering Committee Chair, General chair or co-chair for many IEEE Conferences (to name a few: General co-chair of RTSI2017 and 2018, MELECON 2020 and 2022). She is member of IEEE Award Board N&A Committee (2023) and of IEEE IEC.
Ikram Touir, a software developer since 2018 and currently a Full Stack Developer at Joobo.de in Düsseldorf Germany, has a rich and diverse professional journey. Before 2018, Ekram Touir, served as a researcher, delving into various realms of inquiry. Simultaneously, since 2015, they have held influential steering positions within the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), showcasing not only their technical prowess but also their leadership and commitment to advancing technology. Although their current role may not directly involve artificial intelligence, Ikram Touir carries a multifaceted background that underscores their deep engagement in both the technical and leadership aspects of the field.
OU Liaison Members
Mr. Sanjay Kar Chowdhury graduated in Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University in 1987 and thereafter completed Masters in Power System Engineering from IIT Kharagpur. He has been in the business of Electric power transmission & distribution for the last 34 years, working on Condition Based Maintenance & re-engineering of maintenance procedure of Transformers, Switchgears, outdoor switchyard equipment. He developed a new working methodology on the concept of Refurbishment of large power transformers having more than 20 years of age. From 2000 to 2010, as a line function engineer, he has introduced the concept of Asset Management of Power Assets and Regime formulation in CESC which has been subsequently institutionalized.
After 22 years in line function job, Mr. Kar Chowdhury switched to a different role & currently he is looking after Learning & Development, Talent acquisition, Knowledge Management, infrastructure development in HRD Department as Dy. General Manager. Currently he is working on design, development & implementation of ‘E-Learning’ Platform.
Mr. Kar Chowdhury has co-authored a book ‘Manual on Transformer’, published by Central Board of Irrigation & Power, Ministry of Power, Govt. of India and has served as a member on the Transformer Panel (ET-16) of the Bureau of Indian Standard. He has also published 6 technical papers in technical conferences organized by IEEMA, CBIP, etc. From 2017 to 2022 he piloted 5 patents in conjunction with the line function departments of the company all of which have been granted. For the first time CESC Limited applied for patents for its research work in power distribution technology.
Mr. Sanjay Kar Chowdhury is an active member of IEEE from 1989 onward and has served as Secretary & Chair of Kolkata Section. Currently he is the Chair of Industry Relations Committee of IEEE Asia Pacific Region and also MGA Liaison officer in Industry Engagement Committee(IEC).
As chair of the IEEE Kolkata Section, he piloted the prestigious IEEE Milestone programme wherein CESC has been recognized as an IEEE Milestone Organization in 2021.He is currently working with WBSEDCL for another milestone programme.
He has been awarded the prestigious Life Time Achievement Award by IEEE India Council in 2021, Outstanding Volunteer Award by IEEE R10 in 2022 and MGA Achiever Award in 2023 by the IEEE Hqrs.
Mei Lin Fung, co-founder with Vint Cerf, of People-Centered Internet in 2015 is a leading voice in Digital Public Infrastructure for opportunity and community resilience. An early pioneer of Customer Relationship Management and ERP systems, while at Oracle she worked with Marc Benioff, now CEO of Salesforce. She served as socio-technical lead for the U.S. Federal Health Futures and was honored to be business partner with Internet pioneer Douglas Engelbart. Mei Lin organized the 2024 UN Science Summit Digital Governance Series which included the UN AI Report and a rare plenary by Turing Award winner, Dr Alan Kay.
Lina J. Karam, Fellow of the IEEE, received the B.E. degree in Computer and Communications Engineering from the American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, in 1989 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, in 1992 and 1995, respectively. She is currently an expert consultant for various industries and Chief Technical Advisor at AIAEC LLC. She is also an Emerita Professor at Arizona State University (ASU), where she directs the R&D Image, Video, and Usability (IVU) Lab. Prior to becoming Emerita Professor, she was a tenured Full Professor, Computer Engineering Program Chair, Computer Engineering Director for Industry Engagement at ASU. In addition to her roles as Chief Technical Advisor and expert consultant, her industrial experience includes image and video compression development at AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ, USA, multidimensional data processing and visualization at Schlumberger, Austin, TX, USA and collaboration on computer vision, machine learning, image/video processing, compression, and transmission projects with industries including General Dynamics, Google, Intel, Motorola, NASA, NTT, and Qualcomm. She has over 250 technical publications and she is an inventor on eight issued US patents. Dr. Karam was awarded a U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER Award, a NASA Technical Innovation Award, IEEE Region 6 Award, IEEE SPS Best Paper Award, Intel Outstanding Researcher Award, and IEEE Phoenix Section Outstanding Faculty Award. She is featured in Research.com among the World Top Computer Science Scientists.
Dr. Karam served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (2019-2021). She also served as the Lead Guest Editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Special Issues on Autonomous Driving. She is currently serving on the IEEE TechRxiv Editorial Board, IEEE Educational Activities Board (EAB) Faculty Resources Committee, IEEE Industry Engagement Committee, the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) IVMSP and IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) DSP Technical Committees (as affiliate member). She served on the IEEE PSPB Strategic Planning Committee, IEEE SPS Board of Governors, IEEE SPS Awards Board, IEEE SPS Publications Board, IEEE SPS Conference Board, IEEE CAS Fellow Evaluation Committee, IEEE TechRxiv Advisory Board (as Chair), IEEE TAB/PSPB Products and Services Committee, IEEE Access Journal Senior Editorial Board, and various journal editorial boards and technical committees. She also served as the General Chair of IEEE ICIP 2016, General Co-Chair of IEEE ICME 2019, Technical Program Chair of IEEE ICIP 2009, General Chair of IEEE DSP/SPE 2011 Workshops. She cofounded the international QoMEX conference. She has been an expert delegate of the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29 Committee (Coding of audio, picture, multimedia and hypermedia information) participating in standardization activities.
As an engineer and scientist, Mastilovic is passionate about ICT technologies, research, and science in the field of modern telecommunications, but also about developing product-market placement strategy and business models. Aside from that, sometimes, Mastilovic also introduces himself as a politician and businessman agitate for smart technologies and smart society, building bridges between everyday processes and activities, and new solutions based on modern devices and algorithms.
As a result of his professional network connections globally and experience in different sectors: Government, Academia, Business, and Industry, Mastilovic is active in making global policy (ITU, G20, IEEE). Mastilovic focuses on how to enable modern technologies and set of services as Smart Cities, Smart Grid, Green ICT, and all other services aligned with the UN 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The role in IEEE has helped him to expand his knowledge and network with experts from all over the world and to collaborate with them on transforming our world by following the goals defined in UN Agenda 2030 for a Sustainable Development.
In the last several years, Mastilovic actively promotes the concept of the Smart Society in the 21st century what understands the idea of Technology for Humanity, Sustainable Development, and Smart Society and agitating for the change leadership. Mastilovic believes that leading by example is the most successful way to effectively influencing society. Mastilovic launched several initiatives in the region. Mastilovic drove a few international experts working groups in the IEEE and ITU on Cybersecurity and Smart Cities standardization and implementation. Through his international experience, Mastilovic got familiar with the digital transformation processes in other more developed countries and the ecosystem required for their successful implementation. Having that in mind, the biggest challenge after moving back to Bosnia and Herzegovina was to launch the process of reformation in the local ecosystem and society.
Mastilovic joined the Communications Regulatory Agency Bosnia and Herzegovina (CRA BH) as the national authority body for electronic communications. From the perspective of the government institution, Mastilovic has significantly contributed to launching significant projects in the country as the 4G mobile systems, DVB-T national terrestrial TV transmitting, signing the Roaming Agreement for the Western Balkans moving this region closer to the single digital market, all in 2019. Mastilovic led a group of engineers in the EU Interreg MED Esmartcity initiative in developing the product specifications, architecture, designs, schedules and cost references, management to maintenance of the first fully-operational smart city service in the Western Balkans region: ”Smart Lights of East Sarajevo” implemented in May 2019 in East Sarajevo in the municipality of East Ilidza.
These initiatives have strongly depended on his political and engineering connections from all around the world. Through development phases it always became clear how the technology and politics should join forces and pursue common goals and vision. Mastilovic's goal is to find the best way for the successful Digital Transformation on a more acceptable and understandable way for a wider population without technical education, and he's honored and delighted to work on his goal step by step through the EU Digital Agenda 2020 and the Digital Agenda for the Western Balkans. Mastilovic finds that technology is not the purpose of itself. However, also it is an opportunity to build an affirmative business and entrepreneurship ecosystem, make this society happier, enhance education, and teach each other tolerance and respecting the speech and all forms of freedom.
Living, traveling, and working abroad made him an open-minded person adaptable to the new working environment and different business ecosystems, but also very familiar with different working cultures and mentalities in general. Working in fundamentals engineering research in the academic community, in the industry, and working for the National Regulatory Authority for Telecommunication in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the authority established by the Government, helped him to understand the problems from very different perspectives and taught him to find a multi-stakeholder approach and solution.
J.K. McKinney received his BEE degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1982. Upon graduation, his industrial career consisted of employment at General Dynamics located in Pomona, California where he worked on many advanced and classified projects for the aerospace industry (1983-1992). J.K. was also in the employ of Maury Microwave Corporation in Rancho Cucamonga, California where he maintained the position of Applications Engineer and Western Regional Sales Manager (1992-1994). In 1994, he joined Dura Electronic Sales as a manufacturers representative (Southern California territory) working in adjunct with the Northern California territory and office. From 1997 to present day, J.K. is the President and CEO of Dura Sales of Southern California based in Diamond Bar, California.
JK has been an active IEEE MTT-S member since 1981 and has been involved in numerous facets of the organization. His varied IMS contributions have included: Vice-Chair, Publicity Committee (1989); Chair, Publicity Committee (1994); Chair, Local Arrangements (1999); Chair, Finance Committee (2005); General Chair (2010); Chair, IMS Marketing Committee (2012-2014); IMSEC member, inception-present day; IMSEC chair (2012); Member, IMS Exhibitor Contract Negotiating committee (2006-2007, 2014); Member, SINC Committee (2013-present). J.K.’s past multiple contributions for MTT-S ADCOM were: member of the Membership Services Committee (under Mario Maury); elected member from 1997-1999, Chapter Activities; and Associate Editor Microwave Magazine - membership benefits (2006-2009).
Gary Stuebing is currently leading the Internet of Things standards efforts at Cisco Systems as part of the Chief Technology and Architecture office. Stuebing was the Director of Telecommunications at Mutual Life of Canada until 1996. In 1996 he went into private consulting. He eventually moved to Charlotte, NC and managed the Telecom group at Belk Stores Services. In 2000, he joined Duke Energy as a member of the IT Strategies and Architecture group with responsibility for IT communications and infrastructure services. During this time, he was also a key member of the Mergers and Acquisitions team. He led a group, which managed the integration of IT for mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. In 2004, he became a permanent member of the Power Line Communications Group at Duke Energy. It was during this time that he led the efforts to build a business case for “smart” Power Distribution communications. Stuebing had been the lead for Powerline Communications standards and regulatory work at Duke Energy. In 2007, he joined the Smart Grid PLC and Network Design team as a Strategic Planning Manager. In 2012, Stuebing led the efforts for Smart Grid Standard in Cisco’s Connected Energy business group. He is currently the Strategic Planning Manager for Technology Development. Gary currently represents Cisco in a number of Smart Grid standardization efforts. These include IEEE, ITU, IEC and the UCAIug. He represents Cisco on the Boards of LoRa (Treasurer), Avnu (Chairman of Board), Wi-Sun (Treasurer) and the IEEE-SA Corporate Advisory Group. Stuebing also Chairs the IEEE P2847 and IEEE 802.15.4-Revision project groups.
