About Us

LineVision CEO and Co-Founder, Hudson Gilmer brings over a decade of experience developing innovative data and analytics services for the energy industry. He oversees a team of passionate energy and technology professionals dedicated to the company’s mission of harnessing advanced sensors and analytics to improve the efficiency and resilience of power grids around the world.

Prior to his work with LineVision, Hudson served in roles as Vice President, Commercial Markets at Genscape, and led commercial teams at EnvaPower and EnerNOC. Hudson has an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Business.

Hudson lives in Winchester, MA where he can be found crashing through local trails on foot, bike, or skis.

Lisa is the Senior Managing Director at Advanced Energy Economy (AEE), a national business association dedicated to transforming policy that ensures a more secure, clean, and affordable energy system throughout the U.S. and is also a partner at Guidehouse (formerly Navigant), where she has led their renewable and distributed energy team. She is a longtime leader of AEE’s initiatives to accelerate the transition to a 21st-century electric system. Lisa has hosted CEO and Public Utility Commission (PUC) forums that convene PUC commissioners and advanced energy companies to share information on maximizing the benefits of new, advanced energy technologies for the electric power sector and its customers. She also leads AEE’s Utility Advisory Committee, which facilitates dialogue between utility and advanced energy executives on topics such as electric vehicle grid integration and distributed energy resources. She has worked for more than 35 years in clean energy counseling at Guidehouse and as a Director in the energy practice at Arthur D. Little. She is a member of the Board of Directors Northeast Clean Energy Council and an Ambassador for the U.S. Clean Energy, Education and Empowerment (C3E) Initiative.

Kevin Kimsa is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Climate Innovation Capital, a venture capital firm focused on growth equity opportunities in the Climatech sector, with an overarching mandate to decarbonize the economy.  Prior to his work with Climate Innovation Capital, Mr. Kimsa served as General Partner of ScaleUP Ventures, a $106M fund targeting Series Seed and Series A investments in SaaS-based B-to-B opportunities. In April of 2003, the Globe & Mail named Mr. Kimsa a Top 40 Under 40 in its Report on Business Magazine and in 2006, Mr. Kimsa was awarded the designation of Top 10 of the 400 award winners of the decade.

Todd Gershkowitz is an executive vice president at State Street, a global financial services company headquartered in Boston, MA. Todd has over 30 years of management and consulting experience and prior to State Street worked at Citigroup, GE Capital, IBM, and UBS. Todd is an avid angel investor and has served on the boards of three other private companies.

Adam Grosser is the Chairman of UP.Partners, a graduate of Stanford GSB, and Managing Director of Silver Lake Kraftwerk, a $750mm growth equity fund. Prior to SLK, Partner at Foundation Capital for a decade. 4-time Forbes Midas list recipient. Invested in groundbreaking companies including; Carbon, Crossbow, Elroy, EnerNOC, Foreflight, Naverus, Peribit, Quorum, Silver Spring, Solar City, Spinlaunch, and Tesla. 3-time successful entrepreneur and Stanford engineer. Co-founder of CAFE Foundation & Electric Flight Symposium.

Phil has five decades experience in the energy industry as a geologist, consultant, entrepreneur, executive, board director and energy official in state and federal roles. Most recently, Phil served as Special Assistant to the President for Climate Policy during the startup of the Biden- Harris administration. Phil is the Board Chair for FirstLight and served as board member for the Northeast Clean Energy Council, Prime Coalition, Clean Air Task Force and was Massachusetts Energy Undersecretary and Commissioner. Phil led, help lead and served on Boards of lead energy innovation startups including Ambri (formerly Liquid Metal Battery Corporation), EnerNOC (now EnelX), FirstFuel (now Uplight), and Nexus (now Aclara).  

Francis O’Sullivan is Managing Director for S2G Ventures where he oversees the fund’s Clean Energy investments. Previously, Frank was a Senior Vice President and Head of Onshore Strategy for Ørsted, one of the world’s leading renewable energy developers. Prior to Ørsted, Frank was Director of Research for the MIT Energy Initiative and Co-Director of the MIT Electric Power System Center where he led the research agenda of one of the world’s leading energy and sustainability-focused academic research initiatives. Frank has previously served as a member of the U.S. National Academies’ Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability. He is a Distinguished Associate with the Energy Futures Initiative.

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Nora is the co-founder of ESPY Energy Solutions, LLC, a consultancy serving the energy industry. Prior to this, she served on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, was Chair of the Board at Pacific Gas and Electric, and served as a member of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission. As a leading advocate of responsive and effective independent board governance at RTOs and corporations, Ms. Brownell is a strong proponent of policies that promote investment in national energy infrastructure development and foster competitive markets to serve the public interest.

Gene leads strategy and business development efforts at Climacell where he has built international partnerships with Fortune 100 companies and joint ventures with innovative startups, and found ways to bring weather to new markets. Gene has deep experience developing offerings and partnerships in a wide range of verticals including energy, utilities, defense, transportation and meteorological services. Prior to ClimaCell, he held a leadership role at a boutique strategic consultancy and worked in venture capital.

Chris Kelly is passionate about shaping the clean energy future and implementing safe, reliable, and practical solutions to the impacts of climate change on behalf of the customers he serves. He became National Grid’s Electric Chief Operating Officer in the US after 3 decades of service in the energy and telecommunication industries. Previous roles included Chief Engineer and Senior Vice President Electric and Process Engineering. Chris also led the company's Smart Grid Program in Massachusetts and has led many of the engineering and operations organizations that deliver electric transmission and distribution systems infrastructure. Prior to joining the energy sector, Chris worked for the Department of Defense specializing in point-to-point telecommunications and encryption. Chris is a graduate of Rutgers University’s Electrical Engineering program (B.S.E.E.) and holds an M.B.A. from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is a CIGRE US Board Member, a Registered Professional Engineer, and a member of the IEEE's Power Engineering Society.

Dr. Németh is the Head of the High Voltage Laboratory at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics – one of the premier European academic centers for the research and development of high voltage equipment and technologies. Bálint is an active member of CIGRE Study Committee B2, IEEE Power and Energy Society, and IEEE ESMO where he contributes research on advanced grid monitoring technologies and live-line working techniques on overhead transmission lines.

Chris brings over 25 years of experience leading energy information businesses and providing strategy and market analysis. He is currently Vice Chairman of Wood Mackenzie’s Power and Renewables practice. Prior to this, Chris led Genscape’s worldwide power business which included LineVision prior to spin-out. Chris was previously Sr. Vice President at GE Financial Services and managed a 2,500 MW portfolio of power and transmission assets, and led IHS CERA’s European and Russian research and consulting businesses.

Dr. Pinney led the development of the initial seeds of LineVision’s sensor technology and approach to line ratings as Sr. Research Scientist at Genscape. As a Co-Founder, Nathan served as LineVision’s Chief Technology Officer from 2018-2021, and Chief Scientist from 2021-2022.  In these roles, he guided LineVision’s sensor technologies through proof-of-concept, hand-built prototypes, and small-scale manufacturing stages. As LineVision matured from a startup environment to offering commercial products, Nathan moved to LineVision’s Advisory Board where he now provides independent scientific consulting while allowing him to pursue early-stage concepts and products.

Nathan completed his Ph.D. in Materials Science with the University of Wisconsin’s Computational Materials Group and earned a BS in Physics from the University of Kentucky.

Nathan lives in New Albany, IN, and in his free time enjoys hands-on activities; woodworking, electronic prototyping and troubleshooting, tandem road cycling with his wife, and native-species gardening. He is an active volunteer mechanic and Board Member at Falls City Community BikeWorks, a non-profit community bicycle shop in Louisville, KY.

Rick brings over 30 years of international electric and natural gas industry experience and currently serves on the Boards of Emera and State Street. Prior to this, Rick was CEO at the North American Electric Reliability Corporation where he oversaw the development of over 100 reliability standards and led efforts to improve cyber security and critical infrastructure protection. Prior to this, Rick served in a variety of positions at National Grid, culminating as President and CEO of North American Operations.