Speaker Biographies
Joseph Rushing - PJM Joe is a Reliability Engineer at PJM, performing near-term and real-time reliability analysis as a PJM operator. During his 11 years at PJM, Joe started a three year rotational program in 2011 through the Markets, Operations, and Planning divisions. While in Real-time Market Operations from 2014 to 2016, Joe worked with PJM’s Security Constrained Economic Dispatch (SCED) tools and Locational Marginal Pricing verification process. From 2016 to 2021, Joe was a Senior Engineer in PJM’s Interregional Market Operations department, where he focused on interregional congestion management and represented PJM in the Congestion Management Process (CMP) Working Group and Interchange Distribution Calculator (IDC) Working Group. In February 2020, he assume the role of Chair in the IDC Working Group. Joe holds a Bachelor’s degree from Michigan Technological University in both Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering, with a certificate in Electric Power Engineering. He also has a Master’s in Business Administration from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. Joe enjoys spending time with his family of four, the outdoors, sports, and home projects.
Kristen Bove - E-ISAC Kristen is the Manager of the E-ISAC Physical Security Analysis Team. In this capacity, she directly engages with asset owners and operators on a daily basis to provide high-quality, timely, reliable analysis and context regarding physical security and industry trends, emerging tactics, techniques, procedures, and relevant threat actor behaviors. Prior to becoming manager, she served as Principal Analyst for the E-ISAC physical security team. Before her role at the E-ISAC, Kristen’s prior experience involved working with a variety of public and private sector organizations to provide strategic analysis and risk management solutions for critical infrastructure. This included working as an analyst for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of Infrastructure Protection (now known as Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), where she was responsible for the developmentand implementation of national risk mitigation programsprimarily focused on the Dams and Energy Sector. Kristen has a Master’s Degree in Politics, Security and Integration from University College London, a Bachelor’s Degree in History from Arizona State University, and is also certified as an Insider Threat Program Manager (ITPM) from CarnegieMellon University.
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