Christopher D. Johnson serves as Vice President and General Manager of Energy Solutions at Intertrust, where he leads initiatives for secure and trusted distributed energy resource connectivity. Before Intertrust, he served as Managing Director of Enterprise Innovation & Technology at American Electric & Power (AEP), and spearheaded their distributed energy, electrification strategy, and R&D. At AEP he launched DER Orchestration and Resiliency as a Service and established the Federal Grants office. Earlier, at Amazon Web Services (AWS), he founded the Rapid Open Innovation (ROI) practice to enhance customer success and expand consulting services.