Center Cuts: Advanced Energy Center Summer 2019 Digest

Center Cuts: Advanced Energy Center Digest

Issue No.4 - Summer 2019

POWER PLAYERS - Our Partners

Center For Corporate Education

Stony Brook University’s Center for Corporate Education is on a mission to revitalize the regional workforce through education – a forward-looking strategy designed to stimulate business growth and strengthen economic well-being.

By combining SBU’s deep economic-development resources with regional business, management and investment experts, the CCE fine-tunes sector-specific programs that reinforce essential skillsets and fill critical employment needs with qualified professionals, all while promoting a new generation of corporate competitiveness.

ADVISOR 411 - Our Board

Robert B. Catell

Chairman, Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center

Chairman, National Offshore Wind Research and

Development Consortium

More than a decade after serving as chairman and CEO of KeySpan Corp. and chairman of National Grid U.S., Bob Catell remains an iconic innovator and sustainability leader.

He currently fills two critical energy-related roles, as chairman of Stony Brook University’s Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center and chairman of the National Offshore Wind Research and Development Consortium, which leverages a $20 million U.S. Department of Energy grant and a matching NYSERDA grant with other public and private resources from several states.

Mr. Catell also serves as chairman of Cristo Rey Brooklyn High School and chairman of the Futures in Education for Brooklyn and Queens endowment fund.

The former head of Brooklyn Union and KeySpan’s Energy Delivery division also serves on the boards and advisory boards of several businesses and organizations – including the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, the Long Island Association, Gold Coast Bank, Applied DNA Sciences, the New York City Police Foundation, and the National Petroleum Council – and is a past chairman of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, the American Gas Association, the Partnership for New York City and the U.S. Energy Association.