Dr. Kristen Brown

Principal - Technology Innovation
Exelon Utilities

Kristen is Principal of Technology Innovation at Exelon Utilities, where she identifies technologies disruptive to utility business models and informs best courses of action. She is Exelon's Utility Blockchain Lead and is involved in the IEEE Blockchain Working Group, DOE i-Corps Industry Mentoring, and IT/Cyber Security internal standards development.

Kristen was a Fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy, where she identified new opportunities to reduce the long-term and high-risk technological barriers in the development of transformative energy technologies. She has experience sourcing and evaluating technologies across diverse sectors, including power generation, chemical storage, and energy efficiency.

Kristen received her PhD in Chemistry from Northwestern University where she was awarded the Northwestern Presidential Fellowship, the top award given to NU graduate students. She has a B.S. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.