The people behind the grid.

Martin Vulaj is Chief Executive Officer of Overwatch Grid Systems. He leads the company's work deploying sensor networks and AI analytics for environmental, infrastructure and security monitoring.

Martin has built and scaled companies in several industries. He grew a construction services firm to more than 60 employees and a marine environmental remediation company to more than 400. At Overwatch he puts that operating experience to work building teams, forming partnerships and bringing new technology to market.

Earlier in his career Martin held leadership roles in international policy and diplomacy, including Executive Director of the National Albanian American Council in Washington, D.C. In that role he worked with the U.S. Department of State, the White House and Congress on democracy, security and development in Southeast Europe.

Martin earned his Juris Doctorate from Albany Law School and graduated Cum Laude in Philosophy from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Guillaume Riviere is Chief Technology Officer of Overwatch Grid Systems. He leads architecture and development of the company's edge-AI sensor platform, from the solar-powered field hardware up to the cloud stack that turns raw sensor signal into live situational awareness.

He is the architect of the Overwatch platform: a distributed mesh of multi-modal sensor nodes (LiDAR, thermal and optical imaging, environmental and acoustic sensors) with an on-device decision engine that runs computer-vision and ML inference at the edge, backed by a cloud stack that fuses, classifies and acts on those detections in seconds. His work covers embedded Linux, low-power computer vision, model deployment to constrained devices, secure mesh networking and the data infrastructure that connects them.

Over more than 20 years, Guillaume has built and shipped technology for Fortune 500 companies in automotive, gaming, civil engineering and construction, with a long focus on real-time systems, mixed reality, and work that spans hardware and software. He leads multi-disciplinary, multicultural teams, specializes in remote team organization and operational delivery, and brings the same hands-on approach to Overwatch.

Herbert Hughes graduated from Harvard University in 1982. He worked on Wall Street for fifteen years, specializing in derivatives trading and structuring, and held senior risk management positions.

Mr. Hughes spent a decade at Bass Brothers Enterprises, where he handled capital formation, derivatives and risk management. He is a Director of Wormhole Information Technology Systems and Chief Financial Officer of Wormhole Labs, Inc. His background includes extensive work with Burna technology, which has applications in military and police operations.

Stephen Cieslewicz, a U.S. Navy veteran, is one of the best-known leaders in utility vegetation management (UVM), with four decades of work on its technology, regulation and practice.

He began his 40-year career at Pacific Gas & Electric as its first ISA-certified arborist and System Utility Arborist. He later co-founded CN Utility Consulting (now EOCENE) and served as president for 17 years. Stephen drove utility adoption of LiDAR, UAS, satellites, remote sensing and AI-driven inventory and work management systems, changing how utilities monitor risk, manage vegetation and protect infrastructure. His work also covers wildlife habitat monitoring, pollinator protection and other environmental applications.

Stephen helped write key regulations and standards, including NERC FAC-003 and California's GO 95 Rule 35. He has consulted with utilities on three continents and served as an expert witness in more than 40 cases.

His work has been widely recognized: a Certificate of Appreciation from the U.S. and Canadian governments for co-leading the 2003 Northeast Blackout UVM investigation (commissioned by FERC); recognition in 2011 by Green Media as one of the eight most influential people in the green industry; and a 2022 UAA Award for The UVM Podcast, which he co-hosts with Nick Ferguson, for advancing industry education.

Stephen still consults with utilities, regulators and technology developers, and uses The UVM Podcast to put new tools and ideas for grid resilience in front of the industry.

Lawrence Kahn is a Professor at Tulane University, an attorney, entrepreneur and educator. He has advised clients in the environmental and maritime "trees and seas" space for more than 25 years, and is a Distinguished Research Fellow with the Tulane Center for Environmental Law.

Mr. Kahn previously worked for the U.S. Army. Certified as a Contracting Officer's Representative, he negotiated and enforced government contracts and oversaw the hazard tree removal program and the management of Army timber, flora and fauna resources.

Kahn developed and directs the Tulane Utility Vegetation Management Initiative ("UVMI"), a joint project of Tulane Law School's Center for Environmental Law and its Center for Energy Law.

UVMI is widely recognized as the leading neutral academic center in its field. Its work has drawn positive attention from government, non-governmental organizations, the utility industry and a range of private and public companies.

David Bravo has spent more than 30 years building efficient, profitable businesses through their operations departments, mainly in vegetation management, land management and construction. His work includes the development and rollout of the Wormhole, WITS and NETSAW technologies.

For most of the last 10 years David has led emergency management, utility vegetation management and line clearance work in California, keeping operations safe, productive and profitable.