Nate Franklin is the Founder and Chairman of Pacifico Energy. Pacifico Energy has raised more than $5B in equity and debt financing for renewable projects. He has developed and installed 1+ GW of solar PV and is currently developing an additional 1 GW in offshore wind. Prior to starting Pacifico, Nate worked for BP Solar Energy and Edison Mission Energy. He was involved in the development of 1 + GW of solar PV projects in the southwestern US from 2008-2012. Nate graduated from UC Berkeley and earned his MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Iain Gillott is the Vice President of Technology and Innovation for WIA. In this role, Iain provides technical and strategic advice to WIA in a fast-evolving wireless and digital infrastructure ecosystem. Mr. Gillott has more than 30 years of experience working in and serving as a market analyst for the mobile wireless industry. He is the founder and president of iGR, a consultancy exclusively focused on in-depth data analysis for the wireless industry. In recent years, his research has expanded to cover broadband telecom services to the home and enterprise, as more homes and businesses have become connected with fixed and mobile wireless services. Mr. Gillott has supported WIA as a consultant since 2012. Before founding iGR, Mr. Gillott served as Group Vice President in IDC's Telecommunications practice, managing worldwide research on wireless and mobile communications and Internet
access, telecom brands, residential and small business telecommunications and telecom billing services. Prior to joining IDC, Mr. Gillott served various technical and business roles for EDS (now HP) working with wireless and mobile operators. Mr. Gillott holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Systems Engineering from Bangor University.

Ron Gusek has served as Liberty’s Chief Executive Officer and board member since February 2025 and President since November 2016, and previously held the VP of Technology and Development role. Over the past 25 years, Ron has garnered extensive oil and gas experience in North America and extended his knowledge of operations through travels to Asia, Russia, and the Middle East. Within Liberty, Ron’s focus includes new technology and innovation, service quality, efficiency, and optimization.

Ron holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alberta.

Ron has also held previous roles at Sanjel Corporation, Zodiac Exploration, and Pinnacle Technologies, with a primary focus on hydraulic fracturing in unconventional reservoirs.

Outside of work, Ron is a husband to Jodi, father to daughters Abbie and Robyn, runner, cyclist, hiker, skier, and occasional adventure racer.

Jason Jennaro is Co-Founder and CEO of FrontierGen, an energy infrastructure development platform focused on gigawatt-scale powered land for AI data centers in Texas. Jason has spent his career building infrastructure businesses at the intersection of energy, logistics, water, commodities, and large-scale industrial growth. Prior to FrontierGen, he served as CEO of Breakwater Energy Partners, one of the leading integrated water management and infrastructure platforms in Texas, which was acquired by Select Water Solutions. He also co-founded Twin Eagle Sand Logistics, which grew into one of the largest rail-to-shale logistics providers in the United States. Today, Jason is applying that infrastructure-building experience to one of Texas’s next major industrial opportunities: converting energy, land, transmission, gas, water, and fiber into AI-ready campuses that can scale responsibly. Jason holds master’s degrees from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. He earned bachelor’s degrees from the University of Oregon. In addition to his professional endeavors, Jason serves as Chairman of the Board of Make-A-Wish Texas Gulf Coast & Louisiana. He lives in Houston, Texas with his wife and two sons.

Neil Shah is a Senior Director at alliant, specializing in the architecture & engineering, construction/contracting and manufacturing industries. An engineer by trade, he has worked for a prestigious architecture & engineering firm, as well as a Fortune 500 software and technology company. As a key leader in the firm’s Energy Credits & Incentives practice, Neil oversees different teams to assist the AEC (architecture, engineering and construction) industry claim federal energy incentives. In his role at alliant, Neil has worked with hundreds of small to mid-sized businesses and has helped claim over $250 million in credits and incentives.

A 35 year energy industry veteran, Jim started his career with Conoco, where he built natural gas pipelines and processing infrastructure across North America. After a decade in engineering and operations, he led Conoco’s entry into de-regulated power, where he structured gas and power purchase agreements for end-use customers and oversaw the commercial development of multiple on-site power generation projects.  Jim joined BP in 2001 where he structured natural gas tolling contracts and power purchase agreements with BP’s refineries, independent power producers, public utilities, and industrial customers throughout the U.S. and Canada. Jim went on to lead the largest natural gas liquids supply and trading business in North America before leaving to join an early-stage renewable energy and environmental credit trading venture. He most recently co-founded and served as the CEO of H2O Midstream, a private equity backed infrastructure business in the Permian, before it’s sale to a public company in 2024.

Nancy Zakhour is an energy executive, board director, founder, and advisor with experience spanning power generation, renewable energy, oil and gas, investment banking, infrastructure, and strategic growth across U.S. and international markets. She is Co Founder and Chief Commercial Officer of MorpheusOS, an operating memory platform for complex businesses. MorpheusOS sits above a company’s existing systems and preserves the source linked evidence, decisions, approvals, artifacts, and next actions behind repeated work. This enables governed execution and allows organizational knowledge to compound over time. She also serves on the Board of Directors of Perma Pipe International Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PPIH) and advises companies across oil and gas, clean energy, infrastructure, and technology on commercial strategy, growth, and execution.

Ms. Zakhour has held leadership roles across the energy and power value chains, encompassing commercial strategy, business development, project development, and technical operations. She previously served as Chief Commercial Officer of Clean Energy Services, where she helped build the company from the ground up into a leading BESS and utility scale solar lifecycle services business. She developed its BESS commercial model and led contracting, business development, marketing, and operational project management, helping position the company for its sale to FlexGen. She is also a Venture Partner at Ascent Energy Ventures and an MBA Lecturer at Rice University and the University of Houston Downtown.

Earlier in her career, Ms. Zakhour was an Investment Banker in Piper Sandler’s Energy and Power group, advising on financial and strategic transactions. She also held senior commercial, technical, and operational roles at Oxy Low Carbon Ventures, Occidental Petroleum, Callon Petroleum, and Schlumberger. Her experience includes CCUS, direct air capture, drilling, completions, production engineering, and international field operations.

Ms. Zakhour holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the American University of Beirut and an MBA from Rice University. She is a recipient of the SPE Regional Completion Optimization and Technology Award and Hart Energy’s 40 Under Forty Award and has authored more than a dozen technical and industry publications.

At age 7, Pete Cook staged his first “conference” by forcing his eight siblings to sit in folding chairs, eat Oreos, and listen to a presentation on why he should get his own bedroom. They voted against him unanimously. He’s been perfecting his event format and presentation skills ever since.

Pete founded the longest-running frac sand conference in the industry over 15 years ago, followed by co-founding with Joseph Triepke the leading produced water executive conferences in the industry, and in 2025 they co-founded The Power Connection — bringing together the oil & gas, infrastructure development, power, tech, and finance worlds at a moment when oil & gas and power generation are focal points for American technology dominance. The inaugural Permian Power Conference drew 600+ attendees and 80+ sponsors (which is a pretty good rebuttal to those siblings!).

Pete pretends to be very busy networking with senior executives, but really most of the time he is printing name badges and working on exhibit hall floorplans.

Joseph Triepke is an accomplished energy professional with over two decades of experience in energy finance, research, publishing, and large-scale events. His career began on Wall Street, where he covered publicly traded oilfield service on both the sell-side and the buy-side for firms including Jefferies, JP Morgan, Guggenheim, and Citadel. Since then, he has successfully founded / co-founded 4 highly respected firms to serve energy capital allocators with independent data, research, and industry conferences. In addition to his Managing Partner role at The Power Connection, Joseph heads up the shale research teams at Lium Research and Infill Thinking and is also a Managing Partner at Oilfield Water Connection. When he’s not working on Lium, Infill Thinking, Oilfield Water Connection and The Power Connection, he devotes his time to his important job – being Dad to his energetic 8-year old daughter!