John W ZackDr. John W. Zack earned a BS degree in meteorology and oceanography from New York University and a Ph.D. in atmospheric sciences from Cornell University. He is the President, Chief Scientist and co-founder of MESO, Inc., a 35-year-old small business hat specializes in the development and application of physics-based and statistical geophysical models. He is also a Senior Advisor at UL Services Group after leaving his full-time position as the head of the company's Grid Solutions division in 2018. In 1998, he was one of the founding partners of AWS Truepower, a global leader in renewable energy consulting services, and served on its Board of Directors until its acquisition by UL, Inc in 2016. John is a board member and workpackage 2 leader of the IEA Wind Task 36 "Wind Energy Forecasting" and received an ESIG excellence award for contributions to advances in the use of probabilistic forecasting in 2020. Read More Read Less