Jerald Surface

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Jerald is the Vice President of Risk at SmartestEnergy US, where he leads risk strategy and cultivates a strong, transparent risk culture across the organization. His work centers on positioning risk as a strategic partner, enabling commercial ambition while strengthening decision‑making discipline and organizational resilience. He has held risk leadership roles at Talen Energy, Trailstone, and Avangrid, where he built and modernized risk capabilities, advanced governance frameworks, and fostered environments grounded in curiosity, accountability, and cross‑functional partnership. Jerald champions the belief that risk culture is a lived behavior system; one that shapes how people think, act, and make decisions, and is essential to achieving disciplined, scalable growth in the evolving U.S. energy market.