CEO and President, ECCO International Inc., Chairman of the Board, ZOME Energy Networks, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Dr. Alex Papalexopoulos is an authority in energy market design and President and CEO of ECCO International, a specialized Energy Consulting Company, which provides consulting services worldwide to a wide range of clients such as Governments, Regulators, Utilities, Independent System Operators, Financial Institutions and Traders.

He has designed some of the most complex power markets in the world including North and South America, Western and Eastern Europe and Asia.

He is also the CEO and Chairman of the Board of ZOME Energy Networks, an energy software company which specializes in the research, development and commercialization of smart grid technologies. He has received the Electrical Engineering Diploma from the NTUA and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has published more than 200 hundred papers in refereed scientific journals and conferences, he is a Fellow of IEEE and an honorary professor of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of Patras, Greece.