About WindESCo

Mo is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of WindESCo. He is passionate about applying data science and sensing to solve challenges faced by the operating wind assets. A problem solver at heart, he founded WindESCo to realize his vision of providing a comprehensive optimization solution for wind farms.

Prior to WindESCo, Mo worked as the head of the analytics group at First Wind supporting development and operation of more than 16 wind farms on USA. It was while working at First Wind and seeking optimization solutions that he became aware of an urgent need in the market for a company like WindESCo.

Ed is a seasoned software veteran in the wind industry and brings more than 30 years of experience in the energy, aerospace, and industrial markets. 

Ed hails from Sentient Science where he was General Manager of the Wind Business Operations. Sentient Science Corporation provides digital twin technology to extend the life of mechanical systems like wind turbines. He was instrumental in building Sentient's largest base of customers in North America, Europe and China.

Prior to Sentient Science, Ed held senior leadership positions in software technology companies, including Chief Strategy Officer at Experience.com and VP of Computervision, a division of Parametric Technology Corporation (PMTC). He also has held leadership, executive and sales roles at Rasna, Chaperone Guidance Systems, Alignent and Icebreaker developing expertise in selling software products and services to industrial, defense, transportation and oil & gas markets.

Danian delivers the latest WindESCo performance improvement products such as Find, Fix, Measure and is instrumental in developing new and innovative solutions like WindESCo Swarm™.

Danian has a Ph.D. in Controls in Mechanical Engineering from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He joined GE Global Research Center in 2002 and started innovation in offshore wind technologies. He subsequently led advanced wind technology development in both wind turbine structure and controls and completed wind turbine platform system design of GE 1.7x-10x product series. Before joining WindESCo, he lead the GE Wind Service product development for both GE RePower and PowerUp products.

WindESCo's Director of Software Engineering, joined the team in 2017 with a background in mechanical and software engineering. He completed a PhD experimentally and numerically studying the unique wake recovery of vertical-axis turbines, and subsequently worked in external aerodynamics at Ford Motor Company, helping automate computational fluid dynamics (CFD) workflows run on high performance computing clusters.

Besides wind energy, Pete enjoys contributing to open-source software, playing guitar, and cycling. Pete is the primary developer and maintainer of the turbinesFoam library, which enables actuator line simulations in the open-source CFD framework OpenFOAM, along with various Python packages to help with data acquisition, controls, and post-processing for automating experiments.

Pete holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire.