Every day, Lesley inspires and drives C-suite leaders to embed diversity and inclusion strategies across their organizations and demonstrate impact from the boardroom to the business unit. Lesley’s motto is “Time for talk is over, time for action is now.” She has led key efforts to address the digital divide and build sustainable enterprise in Senegal, West Africa and is passionate about social impact and human rights.

She serves on the National Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Business Deans Roundtable and the BlackComputeHER Advisory Board and is on the UC Merced Foundation Board of Trustees. Lesley co-founded Curated Pathways to Innovation (CPI), a collective impact model focused on broadening participation and access for minorities and women in STEM education and careers.

LESLEY SLATON BROWN

Chief Diversity Officer, HP and
Co-Founder, Curated Pathways to Innovation

Juan Macias, a senior executive passionate about innovation and decarbonization, leads AlphaStruxure™, a Carlyle Group, and Schneider Electric joint venture. In this role, he enables organizations to achieve ambitious energy transformations by building digital, sustainable, and efficient critical microgrid infrastructure to solve their energy challenges and limit the impacts of climate change. As an advocate for creative business strategies and talent curator, Juan champions AlphaStruxure’s model of providing integrated energy infrastructure design, construction, ownership, operation, and maintenance ― without needing customer capital investments or complexity. Juan believes that this approach, known as Energy as a Service, will accelerate the path to net-zero organizations and help them achieve long-term outcomes on resilience, reliability, greenhouse gas reduction, and cost stability.

JUAN MACIAS

CEO
AlphaStruxure