Galen Rasche is a senior program manager in the power delivery and utilization sector at the Electric Power Research Institute , where he manages the cybersecurity program. This program performs applied research in the areas of protective measures, threat management and information assurance. Rasche earned an MSEE degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MBA degree and BSEE degree from the University of Kentucky. Prior to joining EPRI, Rasche led the embedded and application security group at Southwest Research Institute, where he was the project manager for several smart grid security projects.