Kyle Thomas is the Vice President of Engineering & Compliance Services at Elevate Energy Consulting. He is responsible for the execution of engineering and technical projects, client work and strategies, business development, industry engagement and leadership, and organizational growth. Kyle is a licensed Professional Engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia and has leadership and technical expertise in electric transmission and distribution, facility ratings, NERC compliance, resiliency, system restoration, planning, integration of renewable resources, large loads, data centers, power system protection and control, automation, control, wide-area measurements, fault analysis, and system modeling and simulations. He is a Senior Member with the IEEE and is actively involved in other industry groups including CIGRE, ESIG, GWA, NASPI, the Transient Recorder User Council, the Electric Power Research Institute, and the North American Transmission Forum. He has held various leadership roles in these international working groups and has more than 20 industry publications.