SPEAKERS
Jade Alice Eaton is a Trial Attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division. Eaton
graduated from Bryn Mawr College and the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University. She
has worked in and out of government on a wide range of energy and competition issues. After
graduation from law school, she worked at DOE enforcing the Emergency Petroleum Allocation
Act then moved to the Department of Justice Antitrust Division in the Energy Section. She left the
government and worked in private practice on a mix of energy and competition issues in the oil
pipeline, gas pipeline and marketing, and electricity industries. Since 1991, she has worked in the
Antitrust division's Transportation, Energy and Agriculture section where she continues to focus on
issues involving regulated and formerly regulated energy companies. Her work involves
investigation of mergers and acquisitions of energy assets including investigations culminating in
consent decrees in U.S. v. Enova Corp. and U.S. v. Exelon. Eaton has also lead civil non-merger
matters including U.S. v Rochester Gas and Electric. Eaton has worked extensively both here and
abroad on regulation and competition in natural gas and electricity with governments of Australia,
Japan as well as countries relatively new to market economies in Eastern Europe and the Baltics. She
has participated in seminars for staff of competition and energy agencies of Mexico, Brazil and the
European Union as well as working on energy issues with the International Competition Network.
Closer to home, she was a contributor to the Electric Energy Market Competition Task Force
Report submitted to Congress pursuant to EPAct 2005. In 2007, Eaton received the Antitrust
Division Award of Distinction. Eaton was awarded the 2008-2009 Victor Kramer Fellowship which
allowed her to study energy and competition law and policy at the University of Chicago.
Mason Emnett is Deputy Director of the Office of Energy Policy and Innovation at the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission. The Office provides leadership in the development and
formulation of policies and regulations to address emerging issues affecting wholesale and interstate
energy markets. Emnett joined the Commission in 2006, serving as Senior Legal Advisor in the
Commission's Office of General Counsel. There he advised the Commission on legal and policy
matters related to electric transmission service, wholesale power sales, electric system reliability,
corporate regulation of public utilities, and enforcement proceedings. Prior to joining the
Commission, Emnett was in private practice with the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and
Flom LLP in Washington, D.C, where he represented public utilities appearing before the
Commission on matters related to market design, wholesale rates, mergers and acquisitions, and
regulatory compliance. Emnett is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center and of the
University of Texas at Arlington.
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Susan N. Kelly is the Senior Vice President of Policy Analysis and General Counsel for the
American Public Power Association. Since 2004, Kelly has helped APPA and its members in energy
policy formulation and with policy advocacy before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
(FERC), federal courts, and other governmental and industry policy forums. From 1998–2004,
Kelly was a principal with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Miller, Balis & O'Neil, P.C. She
represented cooperatively and publicly owned electric utilities and their trade associations, as well as
other governmental entities, assisting them with restructuring-related issues before the FERC,
federal appellate courts, and state public utility commissions. From 1995–1998, Kelly served as the
Senior Regulatory Counsel for the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA). She
represented NRECA before the FERC, state public utility commissions and courts, and served as a
liaison from NRECA to many industry groups. In March 2008 she was appointed to a one-year
term on the Department of Energy’s Electricity Advisory Committee, tasked with helping to define
a strategy for modernizing the country’s electricity delivery infrastructure, and was reappointed to
the EAC in 2012. In April 2010 Kelly was elected president of the Energy Bar Association. In
November 2010, Public Utilities Fortnightly named Kelly one of its “Groundbreaking Lawyers of
2010.” Kelly is a frequent speaker on energy-related topics. Kelly earned her J.D. degree with high
honors from the George Washington University in 1980, and her A.B. degree in Honors
Interdisciplinary Studies and Economics, magna cum laude, from the University of Missouri in 1977.
She is a member of the District of Columbia Bar, numerous federal appellate court bars, and the
Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States.
David Mohre is the Executive Director, Energy & Power Division of the National Rural Electric
Cooperative Association. Dave has held management and executive management positions with
both cooperative and investor-owned electric utilities for over twenty years, and has five years of
electric policy, research and regulatory experience with the federal government. He has done private
consulting for both utilities and government, including projects related to restructuring electric
utilities in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Columbia and Australia. Dave’s utility management background
includes nine years as Chief Executive Officer of a $3.2 billion generation and transmission
cooperative; five years as Vice President, Power Supply and Engineering for a $600 million
generation and transmission cooperative; and ten years in various supervisory and management
capacities with a large Mid-Atlantic investor owned electric and gas utility. He also has extensive
experience developing and managing multi-state, multi-region power marketing activities. His federal
experience includes managing Department of Energy policy, research and regulatory activities, as
Deputy Director, Power Supply and Reliability; Administrator, Emergency Electric Power
Administration; Chief, Power Distribution and Demand Side Management research and
development; and, Director, Utility Policy Implementation. Dave’s industry experience also includes
serving five years on the Board of Trustees of the North American Electric Reliability Council. He
has also served on the Boards of the Southwest Power Pool and the Mid-Atlantic Area Council. His
national experience includes serving as a member of the NARUC/EPRI National Rate Design Study
Committee, the EPRI Energy Utilization and Conservation Task Force, Chairman of the EPRI
Industrial Program, the FERC Advisory Committee on Power Pooling and the federal task force on
EMP. Dave is a graduate of John Hopkins University with degrees in both Electrical and Industrial
Engineering. He also has a MBA in Finance from Loyola University.
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Diana Moss is Director and Vice President of the American Antitrust Institute (AAI). An
economist, Dr. Moss has managed projects for AAI involving antitrust, M&A, regulatory reform,
network access, and systems competition across a wide range of industries, including: electricity, oil
and gas, cruise lines, airlines, sports, tobacco, internet-based joint ventures, white goods, and
agricultural biotechnology. Before joining AAI in 2001, Dr. Moss was a senior staff economist at the
FERC where she coordinated competition analysis in merger cases. From 1989 to 1994, she
consulted in private practice in the areas of regulation and antitrust at the National Economic
Research Associates and Putnam Hayes and Bartlett. Dr. Moss has spoken at numerous conferences
on various topics in antitrust and regulation, testified before Congress, appeared before the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission, and in state utility regulatory proceedings. She has published
articles in a number of economic and legal academic journals, including: American Economic
Review, Journal of Industrial Organization, World Bank Economic Review, Energy Law Journal,
and the Antitrust Bulletin. She has also published in the Electricity Journal, Legal Times, and The
Deal and is editor of Network Access, Regulation and Antitrust (2005). Dr. Moss is Adjunct Faculty
in the Department of Economics and Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program at the
University of Colorado at Boulder. She holds a M.A. degree from the University of Denver and a
Ph.D. from the Colorado School of Mines.
Johannes (Hannes) Pfeifenberger is an economist with a background in electrical engineering and
over twenty years of experience in the areas of regulatory economics and finance. He has assisted
clients in the formulation of business and regulatory strategy, submitted expert testimony to the U.S.
Congress, courts, arbitration panels, and regulatory agencies around the world, and provided support
in mediation, arbitration, settlement, and stakeholder processes. He specializes in energy and
capacity market design, transmission and network access, ratemaking and incentive regulation,
analysis and mitigation of market power, financial evaluation, and commercial litigation. On behalf
of his clients, Pfeifenberger has addressed RTO market designs, the economic benefits and cost
allocation of transmission projects, the reasons behind rate increases, implications of restructuring
policies, competitive conduct in electric power markets, and the effects of proposed mergers. He has
also explored the benefits of alternative regulation, the desirability of settlement proposals, and the
need of regulatory and legislative actions in the context of evolving market conditions. He is retained
frequently by counsel to testify in energy litigation cases or provide litigation support, including
identifying and coordinating expert witnesses and assistance with discovery, depositions, and cross
examination on economic or highly technical industry matters. Before joining The Brattle Group,
Pfeifenberger was a Consultant for Cambridge Energy Research Associates and a Research Assistant
at the Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Technology in Vienna, Austria.
Sharon K. Segner is Assistant Vice President at LS Power Development. Segner has more than 10
years successful development experience siting generation in Maryland, Virginia and California. She
previously worked at the executive office of the president's Office of Management and Budget on
national energy policy issues and for Senator Lamar Alexander, then a member of the Senate Energy
Committee, as his primary advisor on energy issues during the passage of the Energy Policy Act of
2005.
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Paul M. Sotkietwicz is a Senior Economist in the Market Services Division at PJM
Interconnection. He provides analysis and advice with respect to PJM’s market design and market
performance including demand response mechanisms, intermittent and renewable resource
integration, market power mitigation strategies, capacity markets and the potential effects of climate
change and other environmental policies on PJM’s markets. Prior to joining PJM, Sotkietwicz
served as the director of energy studies at the Public Utility Research Center (PURC), University of
Florida. At PURC he designed and delivered executive education and outreach programs in electric
utility regulatory policy and strategy for professionals in government, regulatory agencies, and
industry. He also served as an economist in the Office of Economic Policy and later on the chief
economic advisor's staff at the United States Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) where
he conducted research, analysis, and advice on market design issues related to the ISO/RTO
markets. Sotkietwicz was an Instructor in the Department of Economics at the University of
Minnesota where he earned the Walter Heller Award for Outstanding Teaching of Economic
Principles four times.
Jennifer J. Vosburg currently serves as President, Louisiana Generating LLC and Senior Vice
President NRG Energy, Inc. for the Gulf Coast Region. Vosburg is responsible for NRG’s business
operations in the SERC Entergy footprint and MISO, including approximately 5,300 MW of natural
gas- and coal-fired generation in Louisiana, as well as east Texas, Mississippi, and Illinois. While at
NRG, she has focused her efforts on regulatory and power transmission related issues both at the
federal and state level. She currently serves as chair of the Entergy stakeholder group. NRG, a
Fortune 300 company, is an independent power generation company with approximately 47,000
MW of generation, representing a diversity of fuel types such as coal, natural gas, nuclear, solar and
wind. NRG’s wholly owned subsidiary in Louisiana, Louisiana Generating provides power to 10
Louisiana rural electric cooperatives, providing some of the lowest retail electricity rates in the State.
Vosburg was a partner at Long Law Firm LLP in Baton Rouge prior to joining NRG in 2007. Her
practice focused on the representation of large industrial customers on energy related issues. She
received both her undergraduate degree (1992) and law degree (1995) from LSU.
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