Matt Clark

President and Chief Operating Officer, Corcentric

Matt Clark is the President and Chief Operating Officer for Corcentric. He is responsible for setting and steering Corcentric's strategic vision along with its mission of empowering businesses to do more. His leadership has led to a substantial increase in employees, revenue, and the company's growing presence in the B2B FinTech space. Since the beginning of 2018, Matt has guided the company through three acquisitions that position Corcentric as a global leader in Source-to-Pay and Order-to-Cash solutions.

Matt is an adviser and guest lecturer for the University of Maryland's Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program, and is an active member of Vistage Chief Executive Group, which provides peer-to-peer mentoring for DC area business leaders. He earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland.

Advait Katarki

Business Development Manager, Eaton Corporation

Advait Katarki is Business Development Manager at Eaton Corporation for Connected Solutions & Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure (EVCI). With over 10 years of experience in engineering, product development and marketing strategy, Advait has provided expertise and leadership for both the circuit protection business and the digital solutions business. In his current role, Advait leads Go-to-market Strategy for Eaton's Connected Solutions and EV Chargers — working closely with strategic eco-system partners, fleets and utilities. Advait is passionate about working on solutions enhancing integration of Distributed Energy Resources (DER) and electric vehicle charging.

Some of Advait's recent speaking engagements include at Industry events such as RE+ (Solar Power International), Parks & Associates Smart Energy Summit, EPRI Infrastructure Working Council, EPA's Energy Star Partner Summit.

Advait graduated from North Carolina State University with a Masters in Mechanical Engineering in 2011 and a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Mumbai (India)

Glen Kedzie

Principal, Energy & Environmental Strategies LLC

Glen serves as a Principal at Energy & Environmental Strategies LLC in Tysons Corner, Virginia where he strategically navigates clients through the myriad of complexities involving transportation public policy and regulatory and legislative development in the areas of energy, environment, sustainability, and technology at the state, federal, and international levels.

Glen served as Assistant General Counsel and as Vice President, Energy & Environmental Counsel for the American Trucking Associations based in Washington, DC for over 22 years. While there, he managed ATA's highly-respected energy, environmental, and sustainability practice and spearheaded its legal, regulatory, and public policy agenda; advocated on Capitol Hill and before federal agencies; counseled clients on complex matters involving alternative fuels, tax, up-stream/down-stream energy issues, and compliance with federal and state environmental laws; and lead industry efforts in decarbonizing the transport sector.

In his role with TRALA, Glen will strategize with TRALA's government relations team to determine how TRALA's members should traverse the coming changes to the trucking industry as it moves away from diesel and toward alternative sources of power. TRALA will utilize his expertise to help lobby CARB, EPA, and other entities with respect to environmental matters.

Paul Ryan

Connected Solutions & EV Charging Business, Eaton North America

With over 16 years' of global leadership experience in sales, marketing, product management, strategy and M&A, Paul has developed and executed multiple strategies across verticals such as Industrial, Commercial, Residential and Utilities. In his current role he leads the Energy Transition & Digital strategy for Commercial and Residential buildings in North America where Eaton is designing solutions to support our customers with the challenges of EV Charging, electrification of everything, Renewables mixes and digitalization.

Paul Graduated from Warwick Business School (UK) with an Executive Masters of Business Administration.

Paul Ryan

Connected Solutions & EV Charging Business, Eaton North America

With over 16 years' of global leadership experience in sales, marketing, product management, strategy and M&A, Paul has developed and executed multiple strategies across verticals such as Industrial, Commercial, Residential and Utilities. In his current role he leads the Energy Transition & Digital strategy for Commercial and Residential buildings in North America where Eaton is designing solutions to support our customers with the challenges of EV Charging, electrification of everything, Renewables mixes and digitalization.

Paul Graduated from Warwick Business School (UK) with an Executive Masters of Business Administration.

Stephen S. Tam

Vice President, ACT Research Co.

After receiving his B.S. from Indiana University, Mr. Tam spent seven years in various accounting positions at two Fortune 500 companies before joining ACT Research in 2000. Mr. Tam has been involved in the commercial vehicle industry since 1993. Since being promoted to his current position in October 2008, he was appointed to the Board of Directors and became a Managing Member of ACT Research in September 2016.

He is one of ACT's two principal commercial vehicle market analysts. He also leads the used truck market efforts for ACT. Some of his other responsibilities include project and database management; and collection, analysis, and reporting of specialty data series. In addition to being frequently sought after as a guest speaker at industry events and giving presentations to private companies, you will often see him quoted in industry publications, newspapers and business periodicals.

Anthony Smith

Chief Economist, FreightWaves

Anthony is the Chief Economist for FreightWaves, the leader in providing global supply chain market intelligence. Anthony started his career in tech as a Commercialization Associate, where he identified and evaluated emerging technologies and innovations. Anthony transitioned to a Corporate Economist & Consultant, advising CXO leaders and Fortune 500 companies on economic analysis, industry trends, and internal strategy. Anthony's clients varied from construction, trucking, industrial, software, manufacturing, and retail. He currently heads up macroeconomic outlook and trends forecasting throughout the U.S. He brings his years of experience and diverse background in forecasting, pricing sensitivity, competitive intelligence, and executive advisory to the logistics industry.

Dean Vicha

President, NationaLease

An industry leader with over 30 years of experience, Dean Vicha's success in the truck leasing industry comes from the principals of personal responsibility, unrelenting perseverance and confidence focused on the  growth of the customers, members, and business partners of NationaLease.

Vicha began his career with NationaLease as a National Account Executive for the Midwest in 2005, where he substantially grew the National Account Program to more than $447 million in term sales. In 2008, he became Vice President of Member Services, executing a strategy that provided a sustainable competitive advantage to NationaLease members and growing the membership base. In 2010, Vicha became the Vice President of National Accounts, leading that team to a record-breaking year in sales. In 2012, Vicha was named President of NationaLease, where he helps members increase their market share and decrease their cost of business. In the last decade, he has grown the company in terms of size and scope. Today, NationaLease has more than 1,000 locations and a fleet count of over 184,000 throughout the United States and Canada.

In his downtime, Vicha enjoys spending time with his wife, Whitney and children Riley and Brendan and playing golf or attending a sporting event. Vicha is a 1992 graduate of Illinois State University.