Carl Haga 

Kinder Morgan/Sonat Vice President – Commercial and Business Development, Interstate Pipeline Group: South Region 

With more than 30 years of natural gas and energy experience, Carl Haga is currently leading Kinder Morgan’s Commercial team for Kinder Morgan’s Interstate Pipeline Group for the South Region. In this role, Carl is responsible for the contracting, customer support and business management of the South Region’s operated interstate pipelines (Southern Natural Gas, Elba Express Pipeline and Midcontinent Express Pipeline) and LNG facilities (Elba Island LNG and Gulf LNG). Carl is also responsible for oversight of the joint venture relationships in the South Region by supporting partner relationships of assets that Kinder Morgan operates as well as providing board direction and support of joint ventures operated by its partner, Energy Transfer (Florida Gas Transmission and Fayetteville Express Pipeline). Collectively, the South Region assets generate approximately $2.7 billion in gross revenue annually. 

Prior to his current role, Mr. Haga spent almost 20 years with Southern Company. While at Southern Company, he spent the majority of his time overseeing the fueling of the natural gas fired generation fleet during a time when Southern Company’s gas usage grew tenfold due to natural gas fired generation additions and coal-to-gas conversions. Other leadership roles Mr. Haga held during his time at Southern Company included integrated resource planning, power trading, fuel planning and coal logistics. 

Mr. Haga received a bachelor’s degree in mineral economics from Penn State University, and a master’s degree in business administration with an emphasis in finance from Houston Baptist University. 

Pablo Koziner

GE Vernova Chief Commercial Officer

Pablo Koziner is the Chief Commercial Officer of GE Vernova. In this role, Pablo leads our enterprise commercial strategy and is responsible for growing customer relationships, developing commercial partnerships, market growth, technical and financial project development and support, business analytics and profitable growth. Pablo’s Commercial Solutions team works in support of GE Vernova’s portfolio of energy businesses and helps deliver integrated portfolio solutions to customers. 

Pablo has more than 20 years of sales, customer service, operations, legal and leadership experience. Before joining GE Vernova in October 2023, Pablo was the President of Energy & Commercial at Nikola Corporation and prior to this experience, spent over 19 years in various executive positions at Caterpillar Inc. Pablo joined Caterpillar in 2001 and in 2013 was named Vice President of Americas Distribution responsible for Caterpillar’s dealer network in North and South America. In 2015 he became President of Solar Turbines Incorporated, a Caterpillar subsidiary, and later became Vice President of Caterpillar’s Electric Power Division until 2020. 

Pablo holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Boston College, as well as a Juris Doctorate degree from Boston College Law School. 

Axel Schlumberger

Southwire Senior Vice President of R&D

Axel Schlumberger is a native of Germany and holds a master’s degree in Electric Energy Systems and Power Apparatus from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Following his early career in the electric cable industry in Switzerland he joined Southwire Company in 1997 and currently serves as Senior Vice President of Research and Development. Prior roles at Southwire include multiple technical and commercial leadership and executive roles in High Voltage Cable Systems, Southwire’s Utility Business and Southwire Canada.

Axel is a leading expert on engineered cables and conductors, Power Delivery and High Voltage Cables & Systems and a senior member of the IEEE Power & Energy Society as well as CIGRE.

He and his wife Claire have been residents of Vinings in Atlanta, GA since 2002 and have three adult children. Together, they enjoy travel, cycling and snow skiing.

Michael Stoner

Vantage Data Centers Vice President, New Site Development, North America

As vice president of new site development, Michael Stoner focuses on scouting locations and developing new campuses and facilities for Vantage in high demand markets across North America. Stoner joined the Vantage team in 2014 as a consultant before being hired to lead the expansions of the company’s existing CA1 and WA1 campuses. He currently leads the development of the CA2, CA3 and CA4 campuses and will direct the establishment or expansion of any additional sites across North America.

Stoner brings more than 34 years of data center industry experience to the Vantage team, having founded and led Lake Street Ventures as well as a real estate development company. Throughout his career, Stoner earned rich experience working for general contractors to develop retail, apartments, office, hospitality, and other unique establishments, starting as a project engineer and working his way up to a project executive. Stoner’s varied experiences bring a rich background to Vantage, including his experience managing and contributing to numerous award-winning projects.

Stoner graduated from the University of Washington with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering with a focus on structural engineering and received an MBA from Golden Gate University.