Carol Anne Watts is Vice President of Sales at Freedom Energy, bringing more than 20 years of industry experience and a proven track record of leadership in energy sales, client strategy, and business growth.

Since joining Freedom in 2019, Carol Anne has served in a variety of roles that have broadened her expertise across the organization and strengthened her impact on the company’s success. As Vice President of Sales, she leads the sales organization with a focus on strategic growth, client engagement, and team development.

In her current role, Carol Anne develops targeted sales strategies, cultivates key client relationships, and collaborates closely with executive leadership to identify new opportunities for growth. Known for her client-first approach, she has successfully expanded and managed strategic accounts while leading client education and training initiatives. A recognized industry leader, Carol Anne is a sought-after speaker at industry conferences and events, where she shares insights on energy markets, procurement strategies, customer engagement, and emerging industry trends. She also serves as Co-Chair of the Retail Committee for the Northeast Energy and Commerce Association (NECA), helping to advance dialogue and best practices within the energy industry.

Beyond her professional accomplishments, Carol Anne is deeply committed to community service and advocacy. Inspired by her personal experience with Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection (SCAD), she actively supports the American Heart Association through awareness and fundraising efforts. She serves on the steering committee for the Boston Heart Walk and is passionate about helping educate women about heart health and SCAD awareness.

Passionate about innovation, client success, and developing high-performing teams, Carol Anne continues to advance excellence within the energy industry while supporting her clients, colleagues, and community.

As Senior Director of the Production Tracking System (PTS) Division at the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC), Erica leads a dynamic team of ten professionals and collaborates with multiple contracted vendors to oversee and continually strengthen the technology platforms supporting Massachusetts’ clean energy programs. Her work helps enable the distribution of more than 26.5 million Renewable Energy Certificates and $6 billion in system-owner revenue by connecting complex data, technology, policy, and operations to meaningful outcomes for the Commonwealth’s clean energy community.

Over more than 13 years in the clean energy sector, Erica has helped develop, implement, and modernize systems and business processes supporting major state incentive programs, including the Solar Renewable Energy Certificate, Alternative Energy Certificate, and Clean Peak Standard programs. Her leadership has centered on building strong teams, improving customer experience, optimizing business processes, and transforming complex operational needs into scalable technology and data solutions.

Yet Erica’s professional journey extends well beyond clean energy. Over a 30-year career in management, she has continually embraced opportunities to gain experience, evolve, and lead through change. That commitment to growth led her to earn both an MBA and a Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA) while balancing senior leadership responsibilities and family. Her path is a testament to the idea that career development is rarely linear and that leadership can evolve at every stage through curiosity, resilience, and a willingness to keep learning.

Grounded in her faith and guided by a servant-leadership philosophy, Erica believes leadership ultimately centers on people, impact, and opportunities. She is a passionate advocate for diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice, with a particular commitment to creating environments in which women and emerging leaders can see possibilities for themselves, develop their voices, and confidently pursue new opportunities.

Beyond her professional work, Erica’s greatest source of purpose is her family. She is a devoted wife of 37 years and proud mother of three remarkable young women, roles that have profoundly shaped how she approaches leadership, mentorship, and success.

Lisa is responsible for the safe, reliable, and affordable energy delivery to National Grid’s customers in New England, overseeing gas and electric operations in Massachusetts and transmission in New England. She is committed to enabling the Commonwealth’s energy transition and ambitious climate goals while keeping Massachusetts competitive.

Prior to joining National Grid, Lisa served as the chief executive officer of the Massachusetts Port Authority, a complex quasi-public sector organization operating vital transportation assets including Boston Logan International Airport, Hanscom Field and Worcester Airport, maritime facilities in the Port of Boston, and a large commercial real estate portfolio. During her tenure, Massport completed significant capital projects including the expansion of Terminal E for international flights, a new post-security connection linking Logan’s busiest terminals, the dredging of Boston Harbor, and the modernization of the Port’s container facilities. Lisa also launched an ambitious NetZero Plan and expanded the Massport Model, a diversity and inclusion initiative in commercial real estate that has become a model for development in the region.

Before Massport, Lisa worked as a consultant for Bain & Company, serving clients in the health care, medical devices and consumer products industries. She began her career in broadcast journalism covering various news and political assignments for CNN.

Lisa is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles and received an MBA from Harvard Business School. While Massport’s Port Director, she was named Chairperson of the Maritime Transportation System National Advisory Committee to the U.S. Secretary of Transportation. She currently serves on Boston Children’s Hospital Board of Trustees, the Massachusetts Business Roundtable, the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, the New England Council, and the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce.

Nina Peluso is a Senior Consultant at Energy Futures Group (EFG), where she supports nonprofit and governmental clients in utility resource planning, ratemaking, and siting cases. She serves as an expert advisor on the integration of new large load customers, utility resource planning processes, and the cost and risk of critical infrastructure investment from a community and consumer perspective.

Nina began her career at ICF, running models for U.S. and international utility clients, before joining Synapse Energy Economics, where she led system modeling projects, supported ISO-NE capacity market participants, and consulted on resource planning and strategic electrification. At MIT, she conducted research on labor policy and industrial transitions in the context of a deeply decarbonized future. As a Policy Advisor at Form Energy, she then represented the company in legislative and regulatory proceedings across the Eastern Interconnection.

Before joining EFG, Nina supervised the Project Execution Team at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Grid Deployment Office. She led contract oversight, energy justice, and program management for an office that administered more than $22 billion in federal funding, obligating over $13 billion across 20 programs and 10 funding mechanisms.

Nina holds an SM in Technology & Policy from MIT and a BA in Public Policy from the University of Michigan, both with a focus on state and local energy policy. She lives in Windsor, VT, with her husband and is, by any measure, a Northern New England stereotype: she reads, knits, skis, gardens, and fiddles.

As Chair of Pierce Atwood’s Energy practice group, Sarah advises renewable energy generation facilities, utilities, and large commercial energy users with respect to state and regional energy regulatory issues throughout New England. Sarah represents clients before public utilities commissions to obtain approvals for energy infrastructure projects, rate increases, and authorizations to enter mergers and affiliate transactions. She also assists investors and purchasers of energy generation portfolios with respect to due diligence and negotiates key energy agreements, including power purchase agreements, net energy billing agreements, renewable energy credit purchase and sale agreements, customer acquisition agreements, natural gas supply and transportation agreements.

Notably, Sarah was named as The Best Lawyers in America® “Lawyer of the Year” in Maine for Energy Law for 2027 and as The Best Lawyers in America® “Lawyer of the Year” in Maine for Energy Regulatory Law in 2025 and 2023.