BIOGRAPHIES
Mark Henry Mark is Director of the Texas Reliability Entity’s Reliability Services group, which produces long-term reliability assessments, performance analysis, review of disturbance events, and situational awareness monitoring for the bulk power system. Since the February 2011 southwest cold weather event, his team has engaged generators with workshops and site visits to promote best practices for winter preparation. Prior to this role, he helped develop and manage reliability compliance programs for NERC Standards and regional criteria in the ERCOT Region. Mark’s prior assignments included generation, transmission, and control center operations as an engineer and engineering supervisor for the Lower Colorado River Authority. Mark is a licensed Texas professional engineer, a Certified Energy Manager, and a BSEE graduate from the University of Texas at Austin, with a graduate certificate in Telecommunication Management from St. Edwards University.
Sam Holeman Sam Holeman is vice president of transmission system planning and operations for Duke Energy. He leads the group responsible for the real-time monitoring and control of the company’s bulk electric transmission system. He assumed his current position in October 2016. Previously, Holeman was Duke Energy’s director of engineering and training for the system planning and operations function. During his 31-year career with the company, Holeman has held leadership positions in various areas of system planning and operations, including system operations, engineering and training. Holeman holds master’s and bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering from Clemson University. He also earned a Master of Business Administration degree from Queens University. Holeman is certified by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) as a system operator and is a registered professional engineer in North Carolina and South Carolina. He is a past chairman of the operating committees for both NERC and the SERC Reliability Corporation. SERC is a nonprofit regulatory authority that promotes effective and efficient administration of bulk power system reliability in all or parts of 16 central and southeastern states. Holeman grew up in North Augusta, S.C. He and his wife, Jodi, have three daughters and two grandchildren. In addition to spending quality time with his family, Holeman enjoys teaching children’s Life Group at his church and coaching high school softball. Duke Energy, one of the largest energy holding companies in the United States, supplies and delivers electric services to approximately 7.5 million customers in the Southeast and Midwest. The company also distributes natural gas services to approximately 1.6 million customers in the Carolinas, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee. Its commercial business operates a growing renewable energy portfolio across the United States. Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Duke Energy is a Fortune 125 company traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol DUK.
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