Company deepens utility, customer expertise with two new hires

Boulder, Colo. — May 17, 2023 — Uplight, the technology partner of energy providers transitioning to a decarbonized future, today announced an expansion of its executive leadership team by appointing Shaila Lakhani Ohri as Senior Vice President and General Counsel and Hannah Bascom as Chief Market Innovation Officer.

Together, these executives bring decades of experience supporting innovation and decarbonization via utilities, energy service providers and other key players in the ecosystem. With Ohri’s legal experience providing strategic counsel across Exelon’s businesses and Bascom’s expertise leveraging technology and partnerships to move the industry forward, Uplight is poised to accelerate its transformational impact. 

“Shaila and Hannah are strategic additions for Uplight at this critical moment, as we are positioned to scale our execution at the intersection of customer engagement and load management,” said Luis D’Acosta, CEO of Uplight. “Their talent, experience and customer-centricity will be critical as we expand our solutions, add further capabilities and increase our impact. We are also proud to be investing in the diversity of our executive team. We are in an even stronger position as a company because of the depth and breadth of perspectives and experiences our leaders bring.” 

Ohri and Bascom bring decades of experience at high-performing businesses in the energy sector:

• Shaila Lakhani Ohri, Senior Vice President and General Counsel: Ohri brings extensive legal expertise within the energy industry, and joins Uplight from Exelon, the nation’s largest utility company which serves more than 10 million customers. There, she served for fourteen years in various legal functions, including with Pepco Holdings, Inc., with oversight across a number of areas, including innovation, emerging technology, intellectual property and branding, commercial and corporate transactions, financing, corporate governance and securities. She also chaired the legal department’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) steering committee, and is actively involved in numerous DEI-focused bar associations and organizations. Prior to Exelon, she spent over a decade in various legal roles focusing on financing, transactional and employment work.
• Hannah Bascom, Chief Market Innovation Officer: Bascom will lean on her deep expertise at the intersection of consumers, technology and the regulated energy sector to lead market development and marketing strategy for Uplight. As a current SEPA board member and the outgoing VP of Regulated Business at the electrification company SPAN, Bascom has an innovative view of where the energy industry is headed and a track record of accelerating impact. Her experience as the Head of Energy Partnerships at Google Nest helped to establish smart thermostats and residential demand response programs at scale, improving customer relationships and grid resiliency. Previously, Bascom also spent time at Pacific Gas and Electric Company and in utility consulting.

For more information about Uplight, please visit uplight.com.

About Uplight

Uplight is the technology partner for energy providers and the clean energy ecosystem. Uplight’s software solutions connect energy customers to the decarbonization goals of power providers while helping customers save energy and lower costs, creating a more sustainable future for all. Using the industry’s only comprehensive customer-centric technology suite and critical energy expertise across disciplines, Uplight is streamlining the complex transition to the clean energy ecosystem for more than 80 electric and gas utilities around the world. By empowering energy providers to achieve critical outcomes through data-driven customer experiences, delivering control at the grid edge, creating new revenue streams and optimizing existing load and assets, Uplight shares a mission with its clients to make energy more sustainable for every community. Uplight is a certified B Corporation. To learn more, visit us at www.uplight.com, find us on Twitter @Uplight or on LinkedIn at Linkedin.com/company/uplightenergy.

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