Dr. Alex Papalexopoulos (M’80–SM’85–F’01) is an authority in energy market design and implementation. He is the Founder and CEO of ECCO International a specialized consulting and software company based in San Francisco, California which provide energy market design services to Governments, Regulators, Utilities TSOs and Power Exchanges. Over the last 20 years he has designed 15 energy markets of various architectures including Nodal Energy markets, Zonal Energy markets and Bilateral markets, in North, Central and South America, Western and Eastern Europe and Asia. He is also the CEO and Chairman of the Board of ZOME Energy Networks, based in San Francisco, California and holder of 13 patents, which focuses on smart grid development services and blockchain technologies for the emerging decentralized Transactive Energy future in the energy sector. He has published hundreds of papers in refereed scientific journals, he is the 1992 recipient of PG&E’s Wall of Fame Award and the 1996 recipient of IEEE’s First Prize Paper Award. In 2016 he was bestowed the award of the honorary Professor at the University of Patras, Patra, Greece. He received the Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Diploma from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia.