About Cheri Warren

Vice President, Asset Management, National Grid: Cheri Warren holds a BSEE ('87) and MSE ('90) from Union College. She has worked at GE, Central Hudson Gas and Electric, Power Technologies Inc., Navigant Consulting and National Grid. She has over 20 years of experience and is known for her ability to create real and lasting change. Her core strengths reach far beyond her top technical talent into staff motivation and clarification of complex issues that result in a high performance environment. She has proficiency in multiple electric utility business functions including management, electric reliability assessment with a focus on fact-based decision making, asset management, PAS-55 certification, regulatory standards and testimony, performance-based regulation, key customer management, utility operations, distribution design, utility transmission and distribution audits, benchmarking, power quality, software product development and implementation (i.e., analysis, GIS, and SCADA), and software systems integration. She is currently the VP of asset management at National Grid. Her portfolio includes smartgrid, transmission and distribution asset ownership, asset information management and reliability strategy. Cheri won the IEEE PES Excellence in Distribution Award in 2007 for her contributions to electric reliability.