Andrew Barbeau is President of The Accelerate Group, a Midwest-based strategic consulting and innovation firm focused on accelerating large civic change initiatives. Through The Accelerate Group, Mr. Barbeau has helped companies, governments, and not-for-profits working to advance clean tech, smart cities, innovative government and economic development projects at a local and global scale.

Taco de Vries has over 25 years' experience in the energy and utility space. He comes to the Accelerate Group from Ernst & Young, where he served as the eMobility & Energy Transition managing partner/leader for the Americas.

Previously, Taco ran eMobility & grid analytics for Guidehouse, a niche consulting firm.

Prior to joining The Accelerate Group, Erin led Accenture's electric mobility (eMobility) within the firm's Strategy & Consulting practice for North America, focused on eMobility strategic business plans and developing new, distributed energy systems. Previously, Erin served as CEO at Center for Neighborhood Technologies, and as Chief Economist at Underwriters Laboratories.