The Power Delivery Intelligence Initiative (PDi2) welcomes new officers for 2025-2026: Landry Molimbi, DNV, as Chair; Troy Helming, EarthGrid, as Vice Chair; and Monica Perez-Therese, ABB Installation Products, as Treasurer. The Board of Directors elected the new officers during their November 2024 meeting.
PDi2 also thanks Immediate Past Chair John Fluharty, Troy Construction, for his years of leadership and his continuing service on the Board.
Chair Landry Molimbi is Executive Vice President, Electric Grid, at DNV, Digital Solutions, leading the digital transformation and helping customers provide safe and reliable energy to communities through DNV’s Electric Grid software solutions. Landry’s extensive experience in the industry includes deployment of large turnkey HV/EHV transmission projects, as well as the design and implementation of asset monitoring solutions for T&D assets (submarine, underground).
Originally from Paris, he earned a Master’s degree in engineering from ENSEM (École Nationale Supérieure d'Electricité et de Mécanique de Nancy), part of the National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine in Nancy. His career began at General Cable (Silec), continuing at NKT Photonics and Prysmian, where he led initiatives in High Voltage & Medium Voltage Partial Discharge testing and monitoring services, optical sensing products and innovative solutions for Prysmian. He believes in delivering results and growth by building diverse teams, fostering innovation, and enhancing customer satisfaction through close relationships. Landry now lives in Portland, Ore., with his family, enjoying nature, travel, and competitive table tennis in his spare time.
Vice Chair Troy Helming is a Unicorn Founder (with 6 company exits) and a modern-day industrialist. He's currently the CEO and Founder of EarthGrid. He’s an inventor (200+ patent claims), an elite athlete (American Ninja Warrior), an author (The Clean Power Revolution + articles), and a clean energy executive. He’s founded solar and wind companies that have generated more than $35 billions of economic impact, and he serves on numerous boards. He's a longtime wellness practitioner, yogi, and family man.
Treasurer Monica Perez-Therese joined ABB in 2013 and is the Senior Director, Market Development, for the Installation Products division. Throughout Monica’s career, she has held leadership positions both supplying electric utilities and working for electric utilities, including Prysmian Group, Ericsson, Bell Microproducts, Eversource, and Exelon. In these positions, Monica has worked with the North American, European, and Latin American markets, traveling extensively to these geographies.
Monica is a graduate from the Harvard Business School Executive Education program, holds a Master’s degree in Power Engineering from The George Washington University and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University (Summa Cum Laude). She is a Licensed Professional Engineer and is bilingual (English and Spanish). Monica is an avid soccer fan of England’s Premier League, Spain’s La Liga, UEFA’s Champion’s League, and FIFA’s World Cup.
PDi2 is comprised of professionals from the North American power industry value chain, including materials suppliers, cable makers, installers, equipment, and accessory manufacturers and engineering firms. The group brings a wealth of experience through our individual and collective relationships with utilities, professional organizations, regulators, legislators, and other industry influencers. PDi2’s goal is to help determine the most viable, reliable, resilient, and cost-effective solution for the installation of transmission and distribution systems via life-cycle cost analysis.
Learn more at pdi2.org.