Victoria Harmon: Victoria is founder and CEO of VL Harmon Advisors, where she helps clean energy and AI-enabled grid technology companies reach the people who decide whether their work gets adopted: policymakers, elected officials, regulators, advocates and media. She runs stakeholder outreach, government relations and media strategy that turn technical innovation into market and policy traction. Before founding the firm, she spent seven years as a senior advisor on New York State's energy and climate team and fourteen years at Credit Suisse, rising to managing director and co-head of corporate communications for the Global Investment Bank and Americas Region. A lawyer by training, she holds a JD from Georgetown Law, and she is a Cal Golden Bear forever. Every job, school and city along the way introduced her to people she can still call on in a pinch, or just to say hello.