Dr Avnaesh Jayantilal is the Advanced Distribution Management Solutions (ADMS) Product Director at GE Digital Grid Software Solutions, assisting electric utilities in enhancing grid reliability, resiliency, and operational change management. He joined GE (then Alstom) in 1999, and prior to his current role he led the Market Management Solutions (MMS) product line. He is also a Senior Member of the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES), in which he was the past chair of the IEEE PES Distribution System Operations and Planning, and IEEE PES System Operations and Control Center subcommittees.