Eric Young

As the director of grid management, Eric provides expertise throughout Itron's grid edge intelligence products, use cases, and automated system operations. Eric brings a wealth of experience to client engagements from nearly two decades of design and implementation of new and innovative solutions for electric utilities across the globe. He is an innovator in Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems (DERMS) and hybrid-distributed optimization routines. His extensive knowledge in power and utility systems is essential during the process of configuring the next generation systems to meet desired outcomes. Eric is an accomplished executive with expertise in making sense of the digital disruption for asset intensive companies and industries. His ardency for assisting organizations move to next generation digital technologies, analytics, and services, enables for a new and improved consumer experience. Eric’s 17 years at IBM followed by successfully navigating new product introduction at a startup through successful exit, gaining direct experience with large and mid-size enterprises in the US, Western and Eastern Europe, Russia, Turkey and South Africa, he has developed leading-edge concepts to target specific business challenges in the areas of smart metering, predictive asset management, demand side management, reactive power management and reductions in electric curtailment. Eric holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh.