Nin has 25 years’ experience in the effective management of environmental liabilities and successful redevelopment of brownfield sites across UK, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific. He is the Global Land Contamination Program Manager at AWS leading brownfield acquisitions, sustainable redevelopment, and environmental risk management. 

He has held senior leadership roles in consultancy delivering high-value, multi-disciplinary, award-winning demolition and remediation projects for public and private sector clients that balance social, economic, and environmental considerations. 

Helen Munro approaches sustainability from a dual perspective of philosopher and accountant.

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She has spent 15 years working with people-based systems across heavy, power-intensive industries in the UK and Australia.  She now leads Pulsant’s evolving sustainability strategy as an edge platform and data centre operator, during a time of change for the climate, energy transition, culture, geopolitics, technological capability and mineral availability.    

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Helen works internally to support energy and environmental governance; measurable performance, long-term strategies and business-wide engagement on planetary impacts – so that Pulsant can deliver digital infrastructure resiliently and responsibly. 

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Having served on TechUK's Data Centre Council and currently serving on TechUK’s Climate Council, Helen advocates for better transparency and collaboration across the digital value chain, and a fundamental shift towards the resources, places and people which both create and define value.

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Helen holds a BA in Philosophy, a BSc in Accounting and Finance, and further qualifications in Data & Systems Analysis, ISO 9001 Lead Auditing, University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership’s ‘High Impact Leadership’ programme. She is an affiliate member of the Institute of Sustainability and Environmental Professionals (ISEP).  

Brian Granahan is the Director of the Illinois Power Agency (IPA), an independent state agency tasked with developing energy procurement plans; conducting energy, capacity, and renewables procurement events; developing solar energy incentive programs; and providing financial incentives for the continued operation of at-risk nuclear plants. As the Director, Brian oversees the development and implementation of plans to procure electricity and clean energy resources for customers of Illinois electric utilities. This work includes development of the IPA's Long-Term Renewable Resources Procurement Plan, which outlines the state's approach to supporting new distributed generation and community solar projects, as well as overseeing programs providing incentives to support those projects.

Previously, Brian served as IPA's Chief Legal Counsel, beginning with the Agency in April 2014. In this role, he oversaw a variety of legal, policy, and strategic responsibilities for the IPA, including serving as the Agency's legislative liaison and representative in negotiations around the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (2021) and the Future Energy Jobs Act (2016).

Brian began his career as an associate with Sidley Austin LLP and worked as clean energy advocate and staff attorney with Environment Illinois before shifting to the public sector and serving as a policy advisor to two Chairmen at the Illinois Commerce Commission. Prior to joining the IPA, Brian was a Vice President with the strategic consulting firm of Tur Partners LLC working to incubate a startup low-profit, limited liability company (L3C) focused on cleantech adoption by municipal governments.

Brian is a former board member of the Illinois Environmental Council and Green Economy Chicago, and most recently served as the Vice Chairman of the Clean Energy States Alliance Board of Directors. Brian holds a bachelor's degree in Political Science with Honors from the University of Iowa and a juris doctor degree from New York University School of Law.

Coleman Peiffer has over 15 years of experience in economic development. As the Senior Manager of Data Center Services at Alliant Energy, Coleman is responsible for the attraction of new data centers in Wisconsin and Iowa.

Under Coleman’s leadership, Alliant Energy has successfully attracted over 3 gigawatts and $20B of Data Centers over the past two years.  

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Coleman previously led all economic development efforts in Wisconsin for Alliant Energy. In this role, he facilitated conversations with communities and partners, introducing them to new and expanding project opportunities.

Prior to joining Alliant Energy, Coleman led the State of Wisconsin’s business attraction department, successfully marketing and attracting major projects to the state.

Coleman also has experience consulting individual businesses on their expansion efforts. He was also a manager at Ernst and Young based in Chicago where he assisted Fortune 500 companies with their investment strategies and expansion efforts. 

Linda Yang is Vice President, Director of Environmental Growth at Terracon Consultants, Inc.  With extensive environmental and engineering consulting experience, Linda has a broad range of expertise serving public and private clients across environmental, health, safety, and sustainability. For 15 years, she has advised clients in the areas of brownfields redevelopment, funding strategies and stakeholder partnership, and regularly speaks on key topics at industry conferences.

In her current role, she collaborates cross-functionally with teams to advise clients across the sectors of digital infrastructure, power and transmission, transportation and infrastructure, industrial, and federal and state agencies. Prior to Terracon, Linda worked at AECOM holding various leadership positions in operations, client development, and strategic accounts management. Linda earned a Master of Business Administration with distinction from Kellogg Graduate School at Northwestern University, a MS in geology from the University of Illinois Chicago, and a BS in geology from Peking University.   

Rich is the Managing Director at Interact, a world leading IT performance consultancy utilising circular economy machine learning software. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Engineering at London South Bank University (LSBU).

He is Co-Chair of the UK Government Digital Sustainability Alliance Planetary Impact Working Group and Co-Chair of the IEEE Water Resource Management Technologies Industry Connections Program

In 2024 and 2025 he was named one of the top 50 individuals driving the UK’s progress towards achieving Net Zero by 2050.

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