Jan Woodcock

Jan is the Director of Operations for the NYS Weather and Climate Analytics Center of Excellence.  Mr. Woodcock has deep experience driving innovation and transformation in High Tech Industries.  He was a senior partner at Deloitte Consulting, Global Partner at Wipro Technologies, and Transformation Executive at Cognizant. His industry experience encompasses the Fortune 100, the small business sector, and Venture Funded start-ups. He specializes in the areas of strategy and operations, with experience spanning analytics, financial management, customer and product strategy, and digital transformation. His Reverse Innovation research paper drove a CEO panel at the Davos World Economic Forum.  

Jorge G0nzalez-Cruz

Before joining ASRC, Prof. González was the director of The CCNY Initiative to Promote Academic Success in STEM (CiPASS), lead scientist of the Coastal-Urban Environmental Research Group (CUERG), and The City College of New York Presidential Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the City College of New York (CCNY).

Professor González holds several patents in solar energy equipment, aerosol detection, and energy forecasting for buildings, and was recognized as a prominent young researcher by the National Science Foundation with a prestigious CAREER Award.  He has authored or co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications, has delivered 100s of conference presentations, and his research has attracted more than $40M in external funding.

He is a Fellow Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME), and Former Vice-Chairman of the American Meteorological Society Board on the Urban Environment.  He was appointed in 2015 by the Mayor of the City as Member of the Climate Change Panel for the City of New York, and more recently as Senior Visiting Scientist of the Beijing Institute of Urban Meteorology and of Brookhaven National Laboratory. He is the coeditor of the ASME Handbook of Integrated and Sustainable Buildings Equipment and Systems, and was named this year 2019 as the Founding Editor of the newest ASME Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings and Cities. 

Richard Perez

Richard Perez holds a doctoral degree in atmospheric sciences from the State University of New York. After an extensive senior faculty tenure spearheading solar energy research at the University at Albany’s Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, Richard Perez now serves as Consulting Scientist to the renewable energy industry, leading a multi-country task force focused on firm renewable power generation under the aegis of International Energy Agency.

Recognized with international accolades, including a US Department of Energy's Certificate for Outstanding Research and the American Solar Energy Society’s Charles Greeley Abbot Award, Perez continues to receive honors for his visionary contributions, include a Visionary Scientist Distinction from the Clean Tech Business Club, jointly with his son Marc with whom he actively collaborates at Clean Power Research, and a Solar Champion Award from the New York Solar Energy Industry Association, acknowledging his foundational research in advancing solar energy.