Sarah Salati 

Sarah Salati is the Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) of National Grid Ventures (NGV) US Northeast team. Salati steps into the NGV role from the New York Power Authority (NYPA) where she served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer. As the CCO and member of the NGV leadership team, Salati is responsible for developing new growth business opportunities for NGV including overseeing commercial development opportunities for its generation assets, and current and future partnerships in transmission including the existing New York Transco partnership. She also leads the development of NGV Northeast business strategy and strategic stakeholder management.

While at NYPA, Salati’s responsibilities included managing wholesale and retail commercial operations, including oversight of $2 billion in annual revenues from NYPA’s power generating assets through wholesale energy trading and contracting. Salati also led NYPA’s integrated customer solutions, comprised of customer-sited distributed energy resource advisory services, turn-key energy efficiency project implementation, digital building energy management services and electric vehicle charging infrastructure implementation. Additionally, she led NYPA’s grid scale business development team focused on bulk transmission and storage projects. Her tenure at NYPA, built on her work at the AES Corporation where she held positions in the US and Europe in various commercial, strategic, operational and transformational roles.

Salati was also a strong advocate at NYPA for diversity, equity and inclusion, including as an executive sponsor of the first employee resource group (ERG) at NYPA, the “Women in Power” ERG.