Mannti Cummins is a pioneering leader in Renewable Energy.  

He has directed the development of 1.8 GW of operating wind energy generation in Texas and Mexico representing a combined investment of $3 billion dollars from firms such as Japan’s Eurus Energy, North American Development Bank, United States International Development Finance Corporation, Spain’s Iberdrola, Duke Energy and General Electric.

Signature projects include the 68 MW Eolica Coromuel in Baja California Sur, Mexico, the 606 MW Tres Mesas Wind Projects in Tamaulipas, Mexico and the 606 MW Peñascal Wind Farms in Kenedy County, Texas.  

Renewable Energy milestone achievements include the first wind farm in Latin America to integrate a Battery Energy Storage System, the first wind farm in Mexico to sell electricity on a merchant basis, the first wind farm located in Baja California Sur and the first wind farm to be constructed in ERCOT South Zone Texas.
   
He received a Bachelor of Business Administration from Texas A&M Corpus Christi with post graduate studies at New York University Institute of Taxation and is a Certified Public Accountant.  An honors graduate of Thunderbird with a Master of International Management, he also received a Diploma in Derecho de la Energia from La Escuela Libre de Derecho in Mexico City, Mexico’s leading law school.  

He was selected as a 2023 Tower Fellow at The University of Texas at Austin and is a member of the inaugural cohort of Energy Leaders in Executive Education at The University of Texas at Austin.

Andy has over 35 years of energy industry and consulting experience.

Andy currently serves as an instructor on the Energy Transition and Hydrogen at the University of Houston and on the Board of the Brain Injury Association of America.

He previously served as an Independent Director of FlexGen Power Systems (FPS), a leading Battery Energy Storage System provider, where he also formerly served as Interim CEO and Chief Strategy Officer.

Earlier consulting roles included forming and leading KPMG’s U.S. Energy and Chemicals strategy business. Prior to that, he served as the Houston office managing partner and in various North American and global energy sector leadership roles at Booz & Company, and as a senior partner at McKinsey & Company where he spent 17 years serving clients across the energy value chain. He began his career at ExxonMobil as a Production Operations Engineer.

He is Chairman of the Board of the Center for Houston’s Future (CFH). The Center is an affiliate of the Greater Houston Partnership, focused on longterm issues and opportunities facing the Greater Houston area (e.g., energy transition leadership, immigration, health care).

Andy earned a BS in Chemical Engineering at Purdue University and an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.

Ashley Vandermeer leads engineering activities for Energy Abundance.  

He has over 15 years global experience in onshore and offshore renewable energy sector, with a skillset covering the full project lifecycle from project origination and early development through to financing, construction and operations.

Ashley supports the engineering and development of the company’s flagship Hydrogen City Texas and Data City Texas projects and its wider portfolio of assets built around Terawatt-scale green hydrogen salt-cavern storage.

Ashley began his renewable energy career working for Tier 1 technical consultancy SgurrEnergy (now Wood) delivering projects across established markets in Western Europe. He then moved to a market-leading Asian Independent Power Producer where he delivered c. 500 MW of onshore wind and originated a GW-scale onshore and offshore pipeline.

Ashley graduated the University of Auckland, New Zealand, with a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) and is trained in project management.