Alex Papalexopoulos (PhD) is President & CEO of ECCO International, based in San Francisco, CA,  which provides consulting and software services in the area of energy market design and smart grid development to a wide range of clients such as Governments, Regulators, ISOs/RTOs/TSOs/PXs, Utilities, Generators and Traders. Alex has designed organised energy markets in about 15 countries in North and South America, Europe and Asia. He is also the CEO & Chairman of the Board of ZOME Energy Networks, a cloud-based, DER communicating platform which deploys distributed stochastic control to aggregate, optimize and control DERs, create VPPs and offer DR capacity in wholesale and retail markets to solve grid problems. He is the 1992 recipient of PG&E’s Wall of Fame Award, the 1996 recipient of IEEE’s First Prize Paper Award and a Fellow of IEEE.

Alex received the Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Diploma from NTUA, Athens, Greece and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. In 2016 he was bestowed the award of the honorary Professor at the University of Patras, Greece.