Speaker Biographies
Todd Beam - SERC Todd Beam is the Manager, Risk Assessment & Mitigation at SERC Reliability Corporation, a nonprofit corporation responsible for promoting and improving the reliability, adequacy, and critical infrastructure protection of the bulk power system in all or portions of 16 southeastern and central states. Todd works on the Risk Assessment and Mitigation team, which is responsible for conducting entity inherent risk assessments (IRA), internal controls evaluations (ICE), and providing registered entities a single point of contact for all noncompliance issues. Prior to joining SERC in February 2012, Todd was employed by Duke Energy Corporation in Charlotte, NC for 25 years, where he worked in a variety of roles. He spent 4 years in his most recent role as the CIP Compliance Project Manager for BA/TOP and TO with a focus on transmission substations. Prior to that, he spent 7 years as the Supervisor of Routine Work and Outage Restoration and Management.
Jimmy Cline - SERC Jimmy C. Cline is the Managing Counsel at SERC Reliability Corporation. He has 14 years of experience as an attorney, 9 of which have been in the electric power industry. Jimmy joined SERC in January 2018, and his primary role is overseeing the Enforcement department. He came from (the former) Southwest Power Pool Regional Entity (SPP RE) in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he was employed for 8 years as a Senior Compliance Enforcement Attorney. Prior to joining SPP RE, Jimmy practiced law for four years in a Human Resources defense firm where he counseled management on employment law matters. Jimmy’s first attorney position was for former Arkansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Betty Dickey, where he was responsible for drafting her judicial opinions.
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