Officers

Bryan Sams – Calpine
President
Bryan is Vice President of Government and Regulatory Affairs for Calpine. He leads ERCOT market advocacy in Texas and is an accomplished electric industry veteran with experience across a variety of electric market segments including generators, retail electric providers, and investor owned utilities.
Immediately prior to joining Calpine, Bryan handled regulatory affairs for Lone Star Transmission in Texas. Bryan was also at NRG Energy (NRG) for more than a dozen years, where he worked on a wide range of wholesale and retail legislative and regulatory issues. He began his career in the Commercial Operation division of American Electric Power in Columbus Ohio.
Bryan holds a Master of Arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin Graduate College of Engineering with a focus in Energy Policy and Finance and Bachelor of Arts from Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio.
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Bryan has direct business and policy experience relating to numerous PUCT activities including rulemaking, contested cases and compliance matters. At ERCOT, Bryan has had leadership roles with a number committees including in the Real Time Co-optimization Task Force, Supply Analysis Working Group and has been an elected member of the Technical Advisory Committee, Wholesale Market Subcommittee, Protocol Revision Subcommittee and Retail Market Subcommittee.

Vice President
Casey is Director, State Government Affairs for Constellation, supporting the western and southern U.S. and the Canadian Province of Alberta. He monitors and supports state policy initiatives before various legislative and regulatory entities in the region including Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Alabama, Kansas, and Utah. Casey served in similar roles for nearly a decade at Exelon Corporation prior to the company separation of Exelon and Constellation. Casey has actively participated, or held leadership roles, in multiple trade organizations in Texas, including the Alliance for Retail Markets, Texas Energy Association of Marketers, Texas Competitive Power Advocates, Advanced Power Alliance, and the Association of Electric Companies of Texas.
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Casey holds a Master of Public Affairs degree from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, and a Bachelor of Science in Communications degree from Abilene Christian University. He serves as the Chair of the Giving Committee on the LBJ Alumni Board and as a board member of the Austin Steam Train Association.

Treasurer
Resmi Surendran is the Senior Director of Regulatory Policy at Shell Energy North America, where she is responsible for developing and executing regulatory advocacy strategies, representing Shell at the ERCOT/PUC and monitoring market developments at SPP and MISO.Before Joining Shell in 2017, she was with ERCOT for 14 years, where she was responsible for operation and design of Real-Time/Day-Ahead/CRR markets. She has been actively involved with stakeholders in design and implementation of ERCOT nodal market.
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Delette J. Marengo – Tenaska
Secretary
As Vice President of public & government affairs, Delette J. Marengo oversees government, regulatory, public and community relations strategy for Tenaska and affiliates in 12 states. Tenaska is one of the largest privately held, independent energy companies in the United States, with a proven record of success in power plant development, finance, construction management, operation and asset management. Tenaska affiliates also provide energy risk management services and are involved in asset acquisition and management; natural gas and electric power marketing; fuel supply; natural gas exploration, production and transportation systems; and electric transmission development.
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Prior to joining Tenaska, Ms. Marengo worked as U.S. Director of Public Affairs for Trina Solar and Director of Public Affairs for Edison International. She has more than 20 years of legislative experience, including serving as Special Advisor and Chief Deputy Appointments Secretary to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to the Assembly Republican Leader of the California Legislature and as Director of Member Services & Minority Consultants at the California State Legislature.
Ms. Marengo earned an Executive MBA (EMBA) from the University of Nebraska, Omaha and a Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude in Government from California State University in Sacramento, California.
Board

Bill Barnes – NRG
Board Member
Bill is Senior Director of Regulatory Affairs for NRG located in Austin. He is responsible for covering ERCOT market design issues for the retail and wholesale markets, providing market analysis, commercial advice, and regulatory advocacy. Bill represents NRG at ERCOT and the PUCT and has served as an elected member of the Technical Advisory Committee, Wholesale Market Subcommittee, and Protocol Revision Subcommittee in the ERCOT stakeholder process. Bill has over 20 years of experience in the U.S. power industry.
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Before joining Goldman Sachs, Bill was the Manager of Market Settlements at ERCOT. While at ERCOT, he spent over 7 years managing, designing, and maintaining the commercial aspects of the ERCOT nodal power market. Bill began his career at Accenture working on competitive retail markets and ISO market development.
Bill earned a Masters of Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and a Bachelors of Chemical Engineering from the University of Dayton.

Ned Bonskowski – Vistra
Board Member
Ned Bonskowski is Vice President of Texas Regulatory Policy with Vistra Corp. Ned provides regulatory representation for the Vistra Corp. family of companies, including Luminant, TXU Energy, Ambit Energy, 4Change Energy, Express Energy, Veteran Energy, and TriEagle Energy before the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT), ERCOT, and other venues.
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Prior to joining the company in 2008, Ned received his Master of Arts degree in Economics from McGill University and his Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Economics with a minor in Personal Financial Planning from the University of North Texas.

Board Member
Daniel Booth is the Chief Operating Officer of TexGen Power. He is responsible for overall company operations, including commercial operations and optimization, plant operations, investor relations, and legal/regulatory compliance and management. Before joining TexGen, Daniel worked at Calpine in a variety of operational and legal/regulatory roles.
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Kevin Bunch – EDF Energy North America
Board Member
Kevin Bunch is Manager of Reliability Compliance for EDF Trading North America, LLC. He is responsible for overseeing EDF’s operational and IT compliance activities and for development of EDF’s compliance policies and procedures applicable to ERCOT and NERC.
Mr. Bunch has managed NERC and ERCOT compliance for more than 10 years, in a variety of roles. Mr. Bunch started his career with ERCOT and worked as a NERC compliance auditor for the Texas Reliability Entity. Prior to joining EDF, Mr. Bunch developed and implemented NERC compliance programs for an independent generator.
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Mr. Bunch is the immediate past chair of the ERCOT Reliability and Operations Subcommittee. He also served on the ERCOT Technical Advisory Committee and the ERCOT Wholesale Market Subcommittee.
Mr. Bunch received his Bachelor of Science in software engineering from The University of Advancing Technology.

Elena deLaunay – Rockland Capital
Board Member

Board Member
Mollie Lacek serves as Senior Regulatory Policy Manager for Talen Energy. In this position, she monitors regulatory, policy and market developments within the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (“ERCOT”) and collaborates with key internal and external stakeholders to support the company’s operations, commercial and external affairs efforts.
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Ms. Lacek holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. and a Master of Business Administration from Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa.

Board Member
Tina Lee joined WattBridge in April 2021 as Vice President of Asset Management to manage the commercial operations of WattBridge’s portfolio. She brings over twenty years of experience managing 6,300 MW of natural gas plants for private equity owners while at Recurve Energy Asset Management and KGen Power across markets including California, Desert Southwest, Southeast, NYISO, PJM, and ISO-NE.
Ms. Lee has a Finance MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and a Finance BBA and BA from the University of Texas at Austin.

Board Member
As the Vice President, Regulatory Affairs for Cogentrix, Mr. Pierpont is responsible for developing and executing market and regulatory strategy across all of the regions in which Carlyle’s fleet operates. Dan has 25 years of experience in the energy industry, with experience from early stage opportunity identification to complex regulatory analysis and advocacy.
Mr. Pierpont holds a Master of Science Degree from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Tufts University.

Board Member
Prior to joining Hull Street Energy, Mr. Allegretti was a consultant with Sigma Consultants, where he also served as the National Spokesman for the Retail Energy Supply Association. Mr. Allegretti has spent his career in the electric power industry shaping public policies, laws, and regulations as an advocate, as an advisor and as an expert witness. For two-decades he served as a Vice President in the State Government Affairs group at Exelon Corp. and affiliated company Constellation Energy, where he was responsible for the Company’s relationship with state and provincial governments across the northeastern United States and Canada. Mr. Allegretti is a recognized leader who has served two terms as Chairman of the New England Power Pool. In 2017 the Northeast Energy and Commerce Association awarded Mr. Allegretti with its prestigious Vanguard Award for his career contributions in support of competitive energy markets. Mr. Allegretti has served on the boards of various regional trade and industry organizations and has also worked as a transmission project developer with Anbaric Northeast Transmission Development Corp. Mr. Allegretti holds a J.D. from Georgetown University and a B.A. from Colby College and currently resides with his family in Franconia, New Hampshire.

Board Member
As a Senior Director – Analytics & Market Policy for LS Power, Mr. Spencer is responsible for developing and executing market and regulatory strategy across ERCOT, PJM, ISO New England and currently serves as the Merchant Electricity Generator sector representative on NERC’s Members Representative Committee. Mark has 20 years of experience in the energy industry, with experience in engineering, project development, asset management, finance, regulatory analysis and advocacy, and legislative affairs. He is also a veteran of the U.S. Navy. Mr. Spencer holds a Master’s of Science in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Bachelor’s of Science in mechanical engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy.
Staff

Executive Director
michele@competitivepower.org
Michele Richmond is the Executive Director for the Texas Competitive Power Advocates (TCPA), a non-profit trade association that is dedicated to helping ensure a successful energy future for Texas by investing in and operating clean and diversified energy sources to ensure ample, reliable and affordable electricity for Texas consumers.
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Michele has over 20 years in the legislative arena. Her career includes nearly a decade as the Director of Legislative and Political Affairs for a statewide trade association as well as lobbying for a statewide education association. She specialized in tax and finance legislation and also directed the association’s political action committee, grassroots and election activities. Michele also lobbied on school finance and governance issues for several years. Mrs. Richmond began her career in the Texas House of Representatives, serving four years as the Chief of Staff and Legislative Director for a Houston representative.
Mrs. Richmond received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin. She has served on Government Relations Committees for state and national associations. She served from 2015 through 2018 on the Board of Directors for the Smart Energy Consumer Collaborative, a national non-profit organization that advances the consumer-driven market for services and technologies enabled by smart grid. Mrs. Richmond lives in a competitive retail electric area north of Austin with her family.

Director of Communications and Administration
paul@competitivepower.org
Paul Townsend is the Director of Communications and Administration for the Texas Competitive Power Advocates (TPCA), a non-profit trade association that is dedicated to helping ensure a successful energy future for Texas by investing in and operating diversified energy sources to ensure ample, reliable and affordable electricity for Texas consumers.
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Mr. Townsend received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Louisiana State University and his Juris Doctorate from St. Mary’s University School of Law. He resides in Dallas with his wife, Linda, twin daughters, Amelia and Isabel, and their three dogs.