Sasan Mokhtari

Dr. Sasan Mokhtari is a renowned electrical engineer and the founder, president, and CEO of Open Access Technology International, Inc. (OATI). With over 40 years of industry-defining contributions, he has led innovations in grid operations, market systems, and distributed energy resource management. A pioneer following the 1996 FERC open access ruling, Mokhtari built OATI from a $3,500 server to a global enterprise with over 1,000 employees. A National Academy of Sciences inductee and IEEE Fellow, he continues to drive progress—now focusing on AI to solve the energy sector’s most complex challenges.