Stuart Hanebuth

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About Stuart Hanebuth

Stu Hanebuth is the Vice President of Utilities and VERO at Safety Management Group. Stu has over 25 years of experience in the electric power industry. Over the last 25 years he has held key leadership roles in electric transmission, distribution, and engineering for utilities and service providers. His experience in the utility sector includes managing responses to large environmental incidents, maintenance of underground and overhead T&D infrastructure, the development of analytical tools to gain insight into large scale operational data, and the implementation and optimization of multi-million-dollar capital programs. Stu understands the complex regulatory and financial challenges that utilities face when developing and implementing programs. He is recognized as an innovative thinker with the proven ability to take large sets of complex data and quickly refine them into meaningful, actionable, information. By working collaboratively with utilities his insights have saved utilities hundreds of millions of dollars. While Vice President at Power Survey he led the sales and marketing efforts for a technology start-up in the utility space both domestically and internationally. As a direct result of Stu's business development strategy Power Survey's revenues grew more than 3X in just a few years. Stu was a part of the team that successfully sold the company to Osmose Utilities Services in 2019. Stu is a Senior Member of the and a the IET in the UK. He has written several papers on topics associated with contact voltage and was a key contributor to the P-1695 Stray Voltage and Contact Voltage standard. He is also the Vice Chair of the ICC P2417 Manhole Event working group. Stu graduated from Rutgers University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Science.