Philip Nevels, Marketing and Communications Co-Chair

 Philip Nevels is the Director of Corporate Strategy at The AES Corporation. He is a Chicago native and entrepreneurial go-getter, who began his career at Accenture. As an alumnus of Techstars Chicago, he branched out into the world of entrepreneurs, as co-founder and COO of Power2Switch, a company that helped residential and commercial consumers shop for electricity needs through the web. Mr. Nevels also holds an MBA from the Chicago Booth School of Business and a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from Princeton.

 Prior to his role at AES, he was the director for Exelon Utilities' new Utility of the Future organization where he was responsible for identifying, evaluating, and prioritizing potential investments in operating, information, and customer-side technology consistent with the Company’s Utility of the Future strategic plan. He was also responsible for assessing those technologies to determine feasibility, availability, economics, market potential, and customer receptivity. The Utility of the Future organization is tasked with exploring and facilitating Exelon’s transition into the future.