A phone call about power cuts helped pull Bimbola Adisa out of investment banking. At Beacon Power Services, the engineer turned founder is tackling a quieter problem: electricity networks that cannot see enough of their own customers, equipment and losses.

From enterprise software to farm pumps and smart thermostats, the Ohio technologist built a career around making scattered machines behave like one dependable power plant.
Ryan Hanley is the Founder and CEO of Equilibrium Energy, the company building PowerOS - an agentic AI platform purpose-built for the power industry. A civil engineer turned energy executive, Hanley spent nearly two decades inside the machine of grid transformation at PG&E, SolarCity, Tesla, and Shell before founding Equilibrium in 2021. With $100M+ raised and NRG Energy as a production customer, he is making a direct bet that AI can unify the fragmented data and systems that hold the power grid back.