Bruce Hamilton

Bruce Hamilton, PE, PMP, is also co-founder and Partner of Benefitics, LLC, which provides objective, impartial, and cost-effective evaluations of the social return on investment (SROI) of government and nonprofit organizations.  He has led or contributed to SROI projects for a range of Oregon-based enterprises since 2009.

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Bruce also has more than 30 years of experience in leadership positions in the energy industry.  He is currently a director in the Energy Practice of Navigant Consulting, where he has demonstrated success in policy analysis, strategic planning, operations, asset management, and project management associated with power generation projects, particularly wind power.  Bruce has led strategic studies for power generation equipment manufacturers, electric utilities, developers, owner/operators, investors, trade associations, and governments.  He served as the Principal Investigator for three major offshore wind studies for the U.S. Department of Energy and NYSERDA.  He has provided expert witness testimony for investor-owned electric utilities, wind turbine manufacturers, and wind developers.

Bruce has previous experience as VP-Independent Power Operations of LG&E Energy (a Fortune 500 company) as well as with major energy participants GE, Exxon, and Iberdrola.  Bruce is president of the Harvard Business School Association of Oregon, which conducts pro bono SROI projects as part of its Community Partners program.  He holds Professional Engineer and Project Management Professional licenses, a BS in chemical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, and an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.