Speakers

Alaina Bookstein is the SVP, Head of Business Development at GridCARE, an innovative company using advanced analytics and AI to unlock latent grid capacity and accelerate interconnection for utilities and large-load customers. In this role, Alaina leads GridCARE's partnerships with leading datacenter developers and utilities. Before joining GridCARE, Alaina led corporate development for Energy at AWS where she spearheaded strategic partnerships with leading energy companies focused on driving clean-tech innovation at scale and consistently delivered $1B in annual revenue. Prior to AWS, Alaina was Managing Director at Bridge Strategy Group, a management consultancy focused on serving CEOs at leading electric utilities which she sold after 10 years to Houlihan Lokey. Alaina started her career at McKinsey & Company and holds an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and a BA from Northwestern University.