Transport Program

Tracey is Senior Director Supply Chain Sustainability for Sysco Corporation. For nearly 6 years, Tracey has worked to tackle Sysco’s operational emissions. Tracey launched and leads Sysco’s electric vehicle program that aims to replace 35% of Sysco’s North American tractor fleet with electric vehicles by the end of 2030 – this equates to approximately 2,800 electric vehicles. Tracey also led development of Sysco’s roadmap to procure 100% renewable energy by 2030. Tracey is married to Kimberly Michelle and has two daughters Alexis and Taylor. He loves road biking, hiking, and general fitness training.

Neha Palmer is the CEO of TeraWatt Infrastructure, bringing over two decades of leadership experience in the energy industry. Most recently, she led energy strategy for Google’s global data centers. As the first hire focused on data center energy, Neha built out and led the team developing electric infrastructure and electricity procurement for the global fleet, covering dozens of sites over four continents. Key achievements include making Google the largest corporate buyer of renewable energy in the world, and the first company of its size to achieve 100% renewable energy for operations, which it has done since 2017. Prior to Google, Neha held leadership roles at Pacific Gas and Electric, and worked as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs. Neha will bring her deep expertise in building out rapidly growing fleets of large scale energy intensive infrastructure to the emerging heavy EV charging asset class, a segment on track to outpace even the incredible growth data centers have seen over the last decade. Neha holds an MBA in Finance from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and a BS in Civil Engineering from California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo.

Mike has worked in the commercial vehicle industry for over 35 years, is the Executive Director of the North American Council for Freight Efficiency and is the trucking lead for RMI.  Mike’s specialty is brokering green truck collaborative technologies into the real world at scale.  Mike was awarded the prestigious SAE 2020 L. Ray Buckendale Lecturer and manuscript author. He has a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the Ohio State University and a Master’s in Organizational Leadership from the Indiana Institute of Technology.  Roeth served on the second National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine Committee on Reducing Fuel Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles, is a Department of Energy Merit Reviewer and past Chairman of the Board for the Truck Manufacturers Association.  He understands the customers, operations and intricacies of the commercial vehicle industry having held various positions in product development, engineering, reliability and quality, sales, materials and plant management with Navistar and Behr/Cummins. 

Gregory, from Saint John, New Brunswick, has a youthful passion for aircraft and aerospace. Having first earned his Glider Pilot License (GPL) at the age of 16, he then followed that up by earning both his Private (PPL) and Commercial Pilot Licenses (CPL). As an experienced aerospace executive, Gregory holds both a Bachelor and a Master of Aerospace Engineering from Carleton University, and an MBA from the Haskayne School of Business. Gregory started his engineering career in repair design and then moved into the development of modifications and upgrades for the C-130 Hercules at Marshall Aerospace Canada. After working at Viking Air Limited as their Production Engineering Manager, and Plant Manager at the Twin Otter’s final assembly plant, Gregory led the product support team for the Canadair CL-215 & CL-415 and the organisation’s aftermarket support for a variety of other aircraft.

Sangita Sharma is the Director of the Sustainable Skies Lab, a first-of-its-kind airline innovation lab to accelerate research, design and testing for a more sustainable future of air travel. The Lab collaborates with partners across the industry as well as within Delta’s operation to foster transformational change. Sangita has spent almost 10 years at Delta, where she’s held roles across the operating business units, leveraging data to ask questions and drive innovation and process improvement. In that time, she has developed a roadmap to using advanced decision science across the operation, built out cleanliness quality assurance programs during the peak of COVID, reduced airport process seams with Joint Venture partners, and fostered enterprise innovation as a founding member multiple internal business resource groups. Sangita holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from Emory University.

Noelani Derrickson is on the public policy and business development team at Tesla, focusing on policy in North America. Key topic areas of her work include electric vehicle charging infrastructure, utility and local municipal engagement, codes, permitting, and electric utility rates. Previous to Tesla, she managed policy in the southwestern states for a leading utility-scale solar provider. She has a master’s degree in International Affairs from the University of California San Diego focused on Energy and Environmental Policy.

Ingrid Irigoyen serves as the Associate Director, Ocean and Climate, for the Aspen Institute Energy and Environment Program (EEP) where she leads EEP’s work on ocean and coastal sustainability and decarbonization of the ocean economy. She is also Director of the Aspen Institute Shipping Decarbonization Initiative (Aspen SDI), which partners with leading organizations and companies to drive the transition to zero emission maritime shipping. She is the lead facilitator for Cargo Owners for Zero Emission Vessels (coZEV), a coalition of major multinational consumer products companies and other freight buyers working to accelerate the pace of decarbonization in maritime shipping and is the President and CEO of the Zero Emission Maritime Buyers Alliance (ZEMBA), a non-profit organization and coZEV initiative to enable companies access to zero-emission shipping solutions that are not currently available. Ingrid holds a Masters of Environmental Management from the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University and a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science from the University of New Hampshire.