Tony Giroti Bio

Tony Giroti is the Chairman and Managing Director of BRIDGE Energy Group which is focused on Grid Operation, Market Operation and Smart Grid. He has expertise in Enterprise Architecture, IT Transformation, Application Integration, Service Oriented Architecture and Business Intelligence. After completing his Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering, Tony trained at Crompton Greaves Ltd. in Power Systems division designing large transformers. Tony also holds a Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Massachusetts.

He has over 20 years of experience in managing Information Technology products, platforms and applications. Most recently, he has been leading various Smart Grid and Demand Response initiatives with IOUs and T&D operators assisting IT and Management in developing Smart Grid roadmap, business plan, Integration strategy and launching Center of Excellence for Smart Grid, Enterprise and Application Integration. Earlier, Tony also worked in the Telecom and Financial services industry as CIO and CTO developing enterprise platforms and running large Business and IT transformation programs.

Tony is an active speaker at conferences, is teaching courses in Compliance, Security and Governance, has written numerous white papers and has been granted 4 patents by US Patent and Trademark office in the areas of SOA/XML/IT platform - Patent #7,492,873; #7,369,540, #7,061,928 and a fourth awaiting a Patent Number.

Tony had also started two venture capital-backed global companies in the areas of Data Warehouse and Unified Communication. He took the latter one public. He is currently the Executive director of an Australian public company, former Chairman of the IEEE, President of Power Engineering Society, Chairman ISACANE and former President, CEO and Chairman of two technology companies. Tony is CISA certified.
Tony’s Contact Email: TGiroti@BridgeEnergyGroup.com

About Smart Grid cannot succeed unless IT challenges are addressed - they will not go away!

The core business of energy generation, transmission and distribution has been operated and managed by non-IT systems for years. IT has only had modest role in energy operations. With Smart Grid, the paradigm is about to change. The ambitious objectives of Smart Grid, when combined with some early warning signs from those who’ve embarked on the journey, indicate that the role and complexity of IT is being grossly under-estimated, and that IT is going to play a more prominent, if not dominant, role in making Smart Grid a reality. The Power industry needs to take a careful, hard look at these indicators, do appropriate course correction and reconcile with the role that IT will play in Smart Grid and Demand Response programs. IT will need to develop a Strategic “Smart Grid Architecture” as opposed to what we call an “Accidental Architecture”. Hopefully through this blog I will be raising awareness of IT for the success of Smart Grid. Stay tuned...