Shannon Miller is CEO and Founder of Mainspring Energy, the leading manufacturer of fuel-flexible, local power generators. Mainspring began commercial deployments of its linear generators in 2020 and today has hundreds of megawatts in field operations and advanced development for leading Fortune 500 companies, data centers, and utilities across the U.S. A former National Science Foundation Fellow, Shannon was awarded the U.S. Department of Energy C3E Award 2022 in the Entrepreneurship category and named Energy Central “Champion in Innovation” in 2023 in recognition for her energy industry leadership. She holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from Stanford University.