Julia Hamm

Julia Hamm

For 25 years, Julia has been at the center of the transformation underway to a net-zero energy system.  She has spent her career advising and collaborating on business models, grid modernization and digitization, electrification and clean energy policies, strategies and programs. She is a partner at the boutique advisory firm The Ad Hoc Group and serves on the boards of Puget Sound Energy and Voltera. From 2004 through 2022, Julia served as President and CEO of the Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA). She led SEPA to re-envision its mission and rebrand from the Solar Electric Power Association to the Smart Electric Power Alliance in 2015. She also led mergers with the Association for Demand Response and Smart Grid in 2015 and Smart Grid Interoperability Panel in 2017. Julia is featured in the 2015 book "Transformational Governance: How Boards Achieve Extraordinary Change" as a case study on the work she did to transform the SEPA board into a high powered, high performing governing body. Julia’s entrepreneurial spirit drove her to create Solar Power International (SPI) in 2004, which has grown to become North America's largest energy industry trade show. Under Julia’s leadership, multiple other clean energy and electrification brand verticals have joined SPI under the umbrella RE+. Julia is the Founder and former Co-Chair of the Board for the LLC that now manages this trade show business that annually attracts more than 40,000 people. Julia is a graduate of Cornell University.