Ashish Achlerkar
PowerChampions
Ashish Achlerkar is the visionary founder behind PowerChampions, leading with a mission to elevate the critical power industry through people, partnership, and performance. With decades of experience in building and scaling service-based organizations, Ashish combines entrepreneurial insight with a deep commitment to integrity, innovation, and operational excellence. His leadership centers on one goal: building a network where people and businesses thrive together.
Frank Assaro
Fidelity Power Systems
Frank Assaro is the Service Sales Manager for Fidelity Power Systems, managing an expert sales team that is responsible for driving market penetration, profitable growth and expanding new business. Frank also oversees all sales and marketing initiatives as they pertain to service and solutions for power generation systems including related software, switchgear and accessories.
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Frank has nearly 30 years of experience in the power generation industry. Prior to joining Fidelity, Frank served as the Director of Sales for Cummins, where he led all sales, marketing and management efforts for the organization’s light commercial, residential and mobile power generation sales teams throughout the Mid-Atlantic. Under his leadership, Frank’s team realized continued revenue growth for two straight decades earning numerous top producer awards from Cummins. In addition, Frank also served as a Regional Sales Manager for Generac in the Mid-Atlantic Region, where he led strategic initiatives and operational aspects of the power generation sales channel. Throughout his career, Frank has been recognized by his colleagues for exceptional sales results.
Carsten Baumann
Schneider Electric
In his role as a Solution Architect, he is helping clients with their energy security initiatives in the Commercial & Industrial and Data Center markets that allow to achieve greater resiliency, efficiencies and sustainability objectives and create economic benefits. Prior, he supported the Consulting and Engineering community by advising on resource-optimized energy management solutions in the data center market. He offers over three decades of experience in the data center, broadcast, telecommunications, AV and IT industry. His papers have been published in peer-reviewed journals and he frequently speaks on national and international venues.
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Baumann, joined Schneider Electric in early 2012. He is a member of iMasons and past contributor to the Green G working group (Next G). Until 2018, he served as Treasurer and President on the board of AFCOM Southern California, was chairman for The Global Society for Asset Management (G-SAM). He’s a guest lecturer at USC, and completed a program at MIT in Smart Manufacturing. Baumann holds an electronic engineering degree from the Theodor-Litt-Schule in Giessen, Germany.
Steven Carlini
Schneider Electric
With his expertise in data centers and AI coupled with a passion for innovation and the ability to forecast technology trends, Steven is an instrumental member of Schneider Electric's global leadership team.
A popular speaker at business and technology summits, his focus areas include AI, accelerated computing, data centers, power systems, liquid cooling, sustainability, and cloud and edge computing.
Sought-after by the media for expert commentary, he’s been featured in CNBC, The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Barron’s, The Economist, BBC, and more.
A member of: Capacity Media's Capacity POWER 100, a list of “trailblazers, innovators and leaders driving the global digital infrastructure space”; Data Economy’s Future 100, the top 100 people to watch; Forbes Technology Council; and the World Economic Forum’s 5G-Next Generation Networks Programme.
Jay Deshpande
Rehlko
Jayant Deshpande has over seventeen years of cumulative experience in the power generation, data centers, and industrial electrical equipment industry. An Electrical Engineer by education, before joining Rehlko as an Engineered Solutions Manager, Jayant worked with Cummins Northeast, LLC, in their Power Generation sales division. He has given numerous presentations to the design engineering community on various technical topics and written white papers on “Breaker-Free Generator Sets with Code-compliant Alternator Overcurrent Protection” and “Hydrogen Fundamentals for Electric Power Generation”. Jayant has received his MBA from Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) with a dual major in new product development & process innovation, and sales.
John Dorn
Fidelity Power Systems
John Dorn currently serves as the President of Fidelity Power Systems. One of the largest distributors of Rehlko (formerly Kohler Energy) generators in the United States, John leads the Fidelity Power Systems team to continue growing the organization’s exclusive distributorship of Rehlko generators and power systems throughout Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Washington D.C., and parts of West Virginia. Additionally, John oversees product education and specifications within the engineering community, equipment sales, factory-authorized service, and exclusive Rehlko parts and generator rentals.
A 25-year industry veteran, John comes to Fidelity Power Systems from Trane®, where he and his team were recognized for top district performances and achieved Customer Satisfaction Index continually above the company average in service and contracting. He was also part of the Trane® District Field Board of Advisors (FBA), a small, select group of district business leaders that represented the field (along with corporate leadership) on key company-wide initiatives and programs.
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Michael Gonzalez
Service Pro by MSI Data
Michael Gonzalez is the CEO of MSI Data, leading the organization’s strategy to accelerate product innovation, expand market reach, and deliver greater value to its global customer base. He brings extensive leadership experience in software and technology, having previously served at Salesforce as the VP of Field Service AI product. Passionate about leveraging data and artificial intelligence to transform field service operations, Michael works closely with customers, partners, and the MSI Data team to build solutions that drive efficiency, empower frontline technicians, and support long-term growth.
Charlie Hicks
Fidelity Power Systems
Based out of the Fidelity Power Systems headquarters in Sparks, Maryland, Charles “Charlie” Hicks is responsible for all service operations as they pertain to the organization’s locations in Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia. Charlie works closely with the service management and sales teams to ensure that business and team member goals are met and that customers receive only the highest levels of care and service. Charlie also works with the Rehlko (formerly Kohler Energy) Power factory to provide operational and service excellence.
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Charlie has been with the Fidelity Power Systems family for over 30 years and his leadership has contributed to Fidelity’s longstanding reputation as being one of the country’s largest distributors of Rehlko generators. This includes being recognized by Rehlko with the Exceptional Business Development Award in 2015, as well as the Rehlko Industrial Distributor of the Year Award in 2016.
Mark Holt
Rolls Royce
Mark Holt is Rolls-Royce Solutions America Inc. (RRSA) Emissions Expert and Emissions Compliance Manager for stationary engine 60 Hz products. His responsibilities include ensuring product compliance with government air pollution regulations and providing guidance and support for regulatory and emissions testing requirements for engineering, sales, and direct Clients and Distributors.
Mark's previous work prior to joining RRSA includes experience in the power generation industry for power utilities overseeing power plant operation and maintenance, and emissions testing and monitoring for GE Power System, GE Environmental, and Babcock & Wilcox Inc. Mark has served as a member of the Minnesota Resource Recovery Association (MRRA) and the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA), and has presented work related to emissions monitoring and plant efficiency improvement at the 2014 and 2016 MRRA conferences. Mark holds a BSc. in Chemistry and a MSc. in Chemical Engineering with a specialization in power plant engineering. Over the years Mark has received 7 patents as lead or co-inventor in the field of emissions monitoring.
In his spare time Mark enjoys hiking, biking, sailing, cross-country skiing, traveling, the symphony, and supporting non-profit organizations.
Dan Molyneux
MSHS Pacific Power Group
Dan has 25 years experience in leading projects, teams, and organizations in the technical service and repair industries. He has worked in power generation since 2018 and currently leads the sales and project management teams for Pacific Power Group’s power generation business segment. He has been involved in projects large and small in many diverse locations from California wine country north to the Canadian border. He has even helped to repower a US embassy in Asia. His power generation experience runs the gamut from providing a single 30kW genset up to providing 9MW of paralleled medium voltage generators and switchgear used to power a high tech industrial campus.
Prior to working in power generation, Dan led large scale and complex commercial ship repair projects ranging up to $11M in revenue. He also has experience leading international business units and companies ranging from $500k to $10M in annual revenue.
Michael Sanford
Integra
Michael (Mike) is a passionate and energizing technical sales leader, with a focus on customer experience, aligning product and non-product business investment with market needs ensuring profitable sales growth.
Mike is an industry leading expert on stationary engine emissions, champion of the best-in-class virtual customer experience and sales enablement leader accountable for the world’s largest power generation market.
