Melissa Chan

Melissa Chan has over 20 years of experience advising, planning, deploying, and evaluating energy infrastructure deployment from centralized coal to distributed energy resources and microgrids. As principal and owner of Kendril, Melissa provided go-to-market strategy for growth-stage clean technology companies and electrification strategy for industrial operators.

As CEO/co-founder of Camberline, a former meter data acquisition startup, she led business development and product strategy to prove out the hardware driven platform. In a prior role at Guidehouse (formerly Navigant), Melissa served as a project manager for the $3.4 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s Smart Grid Investment Grant program, overseeing a team of 13 analysts who collected and reported cost and benefit metrics of the 99 utility smart grid projects.

As a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard University, she designed an energy research, development, demonstration, and deployment portfolio for the U.S. federal government.

As a chemical engineer at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory, she oversaw the development of several international research and development projects for integrated control of carbon, mercury, sulfur dioxide, and nitrous oxides, from existing coal-fired power plants.

Melissa holds a PhD in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon, a dual degree in Chemical Engineering and Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon.