Regional Editor: Europe (UK)

Alan Dick established Lecmet Consulting after leaving the Electricity Association. A chartered electrical engineer, he has spent 42 years in the UK electricity industry, latterly specialising in metering. He provides services to the UK Metering Forum, which has funded work connected with the MID, is Chairman of BSI’s British National Committee for metering standards (PEL/13) and chairs EURELECTRIC’s expert group on metering standardisation; he was their representative in consultation meetings with the European Commission regarding the MID.

Regional Editor: Russia

Alexander Merkulov is Director for Development of JSC Lenenergo's retail company. He was educated at the Leningrad State Mechanical Institute and Baltic State Technical University, and has worked for various commercial organizations, the St. Petersburg city government (state property committee) and as Deputy Director of JSC Petroelectrosbyt (energy retail for residential customers).
 
JSC Lenenergo is the largest power company in north-west Russia, with more than 2 million customers.

Regional Editor: Australia

Andrew Mackie is studying for a PhD at La Trobe University, Melbourne.

He graduated from The City University, London in 1984 then worked at Her Majesties Government Communication Center in the UK and Nilsen Industrial Electronics in Australia.  

Completing a Masters in Electronic engineering two years ago he won a scholarship for his PhD candidature.

Regional Editor: Europe

Dirk Briese is CEO of trend:research. He was previously Head of the Department for Acquisitions and Development at the utility swb AG Bremen, where he conducted market research and consulting projects, and he has also worked in a market research and consulting company. He holds a master’s degree in business administration and a bachelor’s in political science and English from the University of Tübingen.

Regional Editor: USA

Ed Finamore is founder and President of ValuTech Solutions, a management consulting firm specializing in utility automation and AMR.  With over 30 years of utility industry related experience, Mr. Finamore has participated in many utility automation projects and provides authoritative consulting services for smart metering systems.
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Regional Editor: Brazil

Dr Bortoni is a professor at Itajubá Federal University, Brazil, where he conducts research on related fields. He is a Senior Member of ISA Power Industry and Water and Wastewater Divisions, and a Senior Member of IEEE.

Regional Editor: USA (East and Southeast)

Garrett Johnston is a consultant with over 7 years experience in providing energy insights and intelligence to large investor-owned utilities. Valued for his metering expertise by both industry insiders and outside knowledge-seekers, Mr. Johnston has authored more than 30 reports on advanced metering. During his career, he has served more than 100 utilities, providing in-depth perspectives on a wide variety of topics, including AMR/AMI, broadband over power lines (BPL), reliability/outage management and billing. Mr. Johnston has a B.S. degree from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va. and is pursuing an MBA from Georgia State University in Atlanta.

 

Regional Editor: South Africa

Nicholas McDiarmid is the award winning Publishing Editor of ESI Africa magazine, a specialist magazine focussed on the Electricity Supply Industry in Africa. He has a broad knowledge of the industry, covering the economic, political, environmental and engineering facets of the entire supply chain, from generation to distribution. He is also the publisher of Mining Review Africa and contributing editor to Metering International.

Prior to his work in this field, he was editor of Business Brief magazine, South Africa’s only business management magazine. A the former editor of IMIESA magazine, a specialist magazine covering infrastructure and investment, Nicholas established himself as a clear and critical thinker and successfully brought that publication to award winning status, including a PICA award in 2005.

Regional Editor: India

Sundar Rao has over 35 years of experience in industrial automation. Over the past 15 years his focus has been on utility automation solutions employing state-of-the-art metering, AMR and SCADA tech-nologies. He holds degrees in electronics and communication engineering and sciences. He is currently functioning as an independent consultant to industries serving the power sector.
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Regional Editor: India

ZERA GmbH, Königswinter, Germany as Project Manager, Sales & Marketing. ZERA is a reputed manufacturer of energy meter, CTVT, Circuit breaker testing equipment.

He is responsible for Sales & Marketing in Indian continental, Middle east, African Continental, Eastern Europe, and Russia. Which includes tendering, negotiation and other marketing & sales related tasks. Technical support to customer & Reps.  Helping customer to solve metering, meter testing related problems to reduce Transmission & distribution related problems.