Dr. Alexander Apostolov received MS degree in Electrical Engineering, MS in Applied Mathematics and Ph.D. from the Technical University in Sofia, Bulgaria. He has 40 years’ experience in power systems protection, automation, control and communications.

He is presently Principal Engineer for OMICRON electronics in Los Angeles, CA.

He is IEEE Fellow and Member of the Power Systems Relaying Committee and Substations C0 Subcommittee. He is past Chairman of the Relay Communications Subcommittee, serves on many IEEE PES Working Groups and is Chairman of Working Groups C2 “Role of Protective Relaying in Smart Grid”.

He is member of IEC TC57 working groups 10, 17, 18 and 19.

He is Distinguished Member of CIGRE and Convenor of CIGRE WG B5.53 ”Test Strategy for Protection, Automation and Control (PAC) functions in a full digital substation based on IEC 61850 applications” and member of several other CIGRE B5 working groups.

He holds four patents and has authored and presented more than 480 technical papers.

He is IEEE Distinguished Lecturer and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa.

He is Editor-in-Chief of PAC World.

John T. Freeman is a Principal Engineer, System Protection, for Central Maine Power Company. B.S. in Engineering Physics, University of Maine, 1980.

John spent his first 7 years working for a Maine-based heavy industrial contractor primarily redeveloping hydroelectric generating stations across Northern New England.

He joined the Central Maine Power Company's Engineering department in 1989, eventually moving into the System Protection group. John has been involved in all aspects of System Protection including: design, settings, fault analysis, maintenance, testing, commissioning and training.

At the start of CMP's $1.4 Billion "Maine Power Reliability Program" he was assigned as the lead engineer for developing an IEC 61850 based protection and control platform for 10 transmission substations. That project is now complete.

When not working, John can be found either Skiing, Mt. Biking, Paddling, or Hiking.

Kevin Mahoney is the President and founder of Casco Systems, LLC (CASCO). CASCO specializes in applying intelligent systems to protect, control, automate and integrate power generation and transmission infrastructure. Mr. Mahoney is an experienced Senior Integration Engineer with over twenty-five years of experience designing, programming, and commissioning automated control systems.

Mr. Mahoney is a recognized leader in the areas of Substation Integration and Power Plant Automation, and is well versed in the application of Data Concentrator, RTU, PLC, HMI, and SCADA systems. Kevin led the integration team that developed an entirely new protection and integration platform for the Maine Power Reliability Project (MPRP). The five-year project included the construction of six new substations, upgrades to more than 40 existing substations, and the installation or rebuilding of nearly 440 miles of transmission line in 75 communities from Eliot to Orrington Maine. CASCO, along with Relay Application Innovation and Central Maine Power engineers developed an IEC-61850 based integration platform to automate, protect and control every aspect of seven 115/345kV bulk power transmission substations.

Mr. Scott R. Mix, CISSP, joined NERC in October 2006 following more than 25 years of experience working in various facets of the electricity industry, including as a consultant with KEMA, Inc., Infrastructure Security Manager with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Senior Security Analyst at the PJM Interconnection, and more than ten years with Leeds & Northrup Co. as a programmer/analyst and systems architect. For more than twenty years, he has focused on the areas of Computer and Infrastructure Security for the Electricity Sector. At NERC, he is a staff subject matter expert for Critical Infrastructure Protection standards issues, and participates in the ongoing development of the revisions to the NERC CIP Standards. He has also been the NERC Staff Facilitator for the Critical Infrastructure Protection Committee (CIPC) and several of its working groups and task forces.

Throughout his career prior to joining NERC, Mr. Mix worked closely with numerous industry and government organizations, including NERC's Critical Infrastructure Protection Committee (CIPC) and its predecessors, its working teams, was the inaugural convener of the Control System Security Working Group, was an active and vocal observer to the NERC Cyber Security Standards Version 1 Drafting Team (and the NERC 1200 process before that), and was a member of the OASIS “How” Working Group. He has also worked with the Department of Energy, the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center, and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission dealing with specific Electricity Sector security issues. He has organized and presented at numerous industry symposia, both domestically and internationally. He has been a member and chapter secretary of the Philadelphia Chapter of InfraGard, is a member of the ISA and has participated in the ISA99 and ISA100 standards activities, and is a member of the IEEE as well as its Computer Society, Power Engineering Society, and Standards Association. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Mr. Mix is a graduate of the Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer & Information Science and Chemistry.