Ryan Cheney Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, Us

I’m excited to join the amazing team at Kevala, where we’re building a cutting-edge cloud platform for modeling the grid. Kevala empowers decision-makers at the forefront of decarbonization to predict and plan for the rapid growth of electrification around the globe. As Bid Office Lead, I’m focused on identifying growth opportunities and leading a cross-functional process for developing proposals tailored to government, utility, and industry customers.

Boston, Ma, Us

Artyc, Crusoe, Electric Fish, Enode, FieldNav, Heirloom, Mill, Stable Auto, Sublime Systems, Twelve, Verse, Weavegrid, WindBorne Systems.These people inspire me.

Washington, Dc, Us

Led transportation electrification activities for the North Carolina Utilities Commission, including analyzing Duke Energy’s ongoing EV pilots and programs, evolving the Commission’s strategic approach to EVs, and driving decisions on Duke’s ongoing EV proposals. Developed expertise on managed charging and grid planning for EVs through research and collaboration with the DOE EV Grid Assist team, National Labs, and as a thought leader with the NARUC EV State Working Group.

Oakland, California, Us

- Drove the redesign of PG&E's website architecture, content strategy, and digital experience for addressing end-to-end customer needs during California's wildfire season.- Created all email, text, and IVR notifications used to communicate with customers during 2020 Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) events. - Served in PG&E's Emergency Operations Center during PSPS events, including as the Backup Generation Lead responsible for intaking and approving backup power requests from critical facilities across California during high risk weather events and widespread power outages.

Oakland, California, Us

- Led growth and innovation activities for PG&E’s Business Development Team. The work was entrepreneurial and involved identifying trends, evaluating new business concepts, and rapidly piloting and iterating on new products and services to create new revenue streams and evolve PG&E’s business model.- Identified, patented, and commercialized PG&E's mobile asset management intellectual property, including industry-leading remote inspection capabilities via drones, computer vision and artificial intelligence.

Oakland, California, Us

- Facilitated and continuously evolved PG&E’s company-wide strategic planning and reporting platform, integrating risk management, strategic planning, budget setting, and monthly performance management at the senior executive level.- Led a team of 30 and received a 91% employee engagement index score in 2016, ranking in the top decile among PG&E Directors.

Oakland, California, Us

- Recruited by the CEO, CFO, and VP of Strategy to redesign and launch a new company-wide integrated planning process, an operating rhythm that built engagement with employees at multiple levels and was benchmarked by energy industry peers.- Created PG&E’s officer-level monthly balanced scorecard reporting process, tying together metrics, data, and analysis into simple visuals that were also used to communicate results directly to the Board of Directors, investors, regulators, customers, and employees.

Oakland, California, Us

- Conducted market analysis of renewable technologies, tracked and analyzed federal and state policies, modeled the economics of potential wind and solar projects, and built a detailed business case for PG&E’s 30MW Collinsville wind project.- Presented insights to Sr. executives and drove a challenging decision to exit the renewable development business.

Schenectady, Ny, Us

- Rotation 2 – GE Energy Marketing – Led global market analysis for GE’s emerging offshore wind business, segmented customers, created value propositions, and supported commercial activation with new customers.- Rotation 1 – GE Government Solutions – Created partnerships with US cities, universities, and military bases focused on energy management and efficiency solutions, building a $25M sales pipeline with new GE customers.

Schenectady, Ny, Us

Analyzed the impact of electric transmission capacity constraints on GE wind product and service demand and developed GE’s policy position for promoting transmission expansion.

Washington, Dc, Us

Synthesized current U.S. wind industry trends. Work published in the "Annual Report on U.S. Wind Power Installation, Cost, and Performance Trends: 2007."

Oakland, Ca, Us

- Facilitated strategic planning session with 8 Chevron environmental managers and conducted Monte Carlo modelling for ~250 environmental remediation projects, allowing for more efficient and accurate environmental liability reporting.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Environmental Science & Policy, Economics

Mba

Stratgecially Leading At Pg&E Executive Program

Lfa Is An Intensive Exploration Of Climate Science, Impacts, Solutions, And Justice.