Speakers

Wayne Bishop Jr. is Vice President of Industry Outreach and Strategy at Quanta Technology, a subsidiary of Quanta Services, and Fortune 500 company. Wayne has worked in the electric power industry for over 30 years and is a Senior Member of IEEE. 

Wayne is also an active member of IEEE PES where he has served in a variety of leadership roles including Vice President of Meetings and Conferences from 2019-2024, a member of the IEEE Power and Energy Society Governing Board and a member of the IEEE PES Executive Committee. Since 2011, Wayne has been an active member of the IEEE PES Long Planning Committee where he helped write and implement the Long-Range Strategic Plan for IEEE PES. 

Previously, Wayne worked at OMICRON electronics for 13 years where he was head of Marketing for North America. Prior to that, Wayne was employed at Doble Engineering Company for nearly 20 years in several senior management positions. In 2007, he was appointed by Doble’s Board of Directors to serve on the Executive Committee to broker the sale of Doble Engineering to ESCO Technologies.  

Wayne is a graduate of Merrimack College, Harvard University, and the Executive MBA Program at Suffolk University in Boston, graduating with honors. He speaks regularly at industry conferences, has moderated more than 75 panels, and published several articles and papers in industry publications including IEEE Power and Energy Magazine and T&D World Magazine. Wayne is also a member of the Board of Advisors for the School of Engineering and Computational Sciences at Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts. He is also on the Advisory Board for IRISS Companies of Bradenton, Florida.