About Us

With more than 25 years and 7,000 MW of experience in the renewable energy, construction, and communication industries, Scott brings operations, planning, and implementation skills forged by real-world experience. His experience spans North, Central, and South America, as well as the Caribbean. His project development roles include senior-level positions at enXco, EDF Renewables, and Centauri Energy. His background includes wind, solar, biomass, biogas, energy storage, satellite earth stations, microwave, fiber, and cellular projects. Scott’s track record of creative problem solving using new technologies and processes has been instrumental in creating many of the company’s systems and operations.

Jeff has worked for more than 25 years in project management and daily operations for the renewable energy, utility, and telecommunication industries. He oversees the engineering and construction of utility projects, including substations, solar farms, wind farms, transmission lines, and telecommunication facilities. He also oversees property acquisition and land use approvals. Internationally, he oversaw successful large-scale projects in Colombia and Indonesia — often in hazardous scenarios. He has overseen projects exceeding $450 million, working for EDF Renewable Energy, enXco, JES Engineering, Alcoa, Koll, Bechtel, AT&T, Motorola, Sprint, Verizon, and the U.S. Coast Guard.

Joan Plastiras is a startup investor, advisor, consultant, and board member. She connects with startups as an advisor for Silicon Catalyst, Skydeck, and KYTO and as a member of Life Science Angels and the Band. Joan also participates in the UC Davis Entrepreneurial Academy for the national labs and advise national lab staff members who seek to commercialize their technology.

In the past, Joan worked for two start-up companies that went IPO. At Lockheed Martin/Advanced Technology Center, she created, staffed, and ran a department responsible for risk, quality, reliability, systems safety, personal and environmental protection. She led the first probabilistic risk assessment for NASA on the main engine main pressurization system following a shuttle disaster. At Sandia National Labs, Joan identified how a terrorist group could exploit a design vulnerability to access and use a tactical nuclear weapon. Her discovery forced a shutdown of the manufacturing line to facilitate a complete redesign. She used insolation data to show that a solar power plant could not effectively address peak air conditioning loads in Los Angelos and presented her study as an invited speaker at the second international solar conference. Joan is a licensed mechanical engineer (California).

Dr. Daniel M. Kammen is a Professor of Energy at the University of California, Berkeley, with parallel appointments in the Energy and Resources Group, the Goldman School of Public Policy, and the department of Nuclear Engineering. He was appointed by then Secretary of State Hilary Clinton in April 2010 as the first energy fellow of the new Environment and Climate Partnership for the Americas (ECPA) initiative. In 2016 he was asked to serve as the Science Envoy for U. S. Secretary of State John Kerry, which he did until August, 2017 when he resigned over the policies and actions of Donald Trump.

Throughout Hébert’s career, he had worked on gas pipeline projects, gas storage projects, electric transmission and generation and finally was spending much of his time on nuclear efforts with Entergy. His diverse range of talents, education and application of fundamentals in the energy space gave rise to his founding of Lexicon Strategy Group. Hébert joined Entergy Corporation as Executive Vice President, External Affairs in 2001 after a lengthy career as a government energy regulator at both the federal and state levels and left in 2010. 

He supervised the company’s system regulatory efforts and strategies, system and federal government relations, environmental policy, external and internal communications, and corporate contribution functions. A member of the Office of Chief Executive reporting to Entergy’s Chair and CEO. Hébert served four years in Washington as a presidential appointee to the FERC. He was nominated to a Republican seat on FERC by President Clinton in 1997 and named chair by President Bush in January, 2001. At 38 years of age became the youngest chairman in FERC’s history. During Hébert’s tenure at FERC he led efforts to restructure the electric utility and natural gas pipeline industries to promote competition. He stepped down from the commission on August 31, 2001 to accept his position with Entergy. Hébert was also chairman of the Mississippi Public Service Commission and a leader of the Mississippi Legislature. His public service began with his 1987 election to the House of Representatives, where he served until 1992. During that time he chaired both the House Oil and Gas Committee and the House Ways and Means Severance Subcommittee. In 1992 Hébert was appointed by Governor Fordice to the Mississippi Public Service Commission. At age 29 he was the youngest public service commissioner in the nation and the youngest in Mississippi’s history. He was elected to a second term on the commission in 1995 and served as the commission’s chairman.