2025 Fortunato & Friends
Please join us on Tuesday, February 4, at 2 p.m. ET for Fortunato & Friends, a webcast series featuring our Chief Economist Ed Fortunato and a special guest each month.
This month's webcast features a discussion with special guest Nate Bender, Manager, Constellation Technology Ventures, on the following topic:
- Innovations in the Power Industry
Nate Bender is an investor with Constellation's venture capital team - Constellation Technology Ventures (CTV). In that role he supports CTV's mission of investing in a market driven energy transition as it pertains to the power sector. His investments span a wide range of areas including geothermal generation (XGS), cybersecurity (Operant Networks), and energy efficient microchips for AI computation (Encharge.AI).
Nate started his power sector career at Exelon where he managed the Technology Business Management Office, providing business intelligence into the company's $1 billion annual IT budget. From there, he joined the corporate innovation team as a "Founder" with Exelon’s internal incubator program, where he explored new revenue opportunities for the company relating to distributed energy resources, and in the process helped revolutionize the network security of the company’s generation SCADA system.
Nate has an MBA from Johns Hopkins, and a BA in East Asian Languages from the University of Maryland.