Matthew Boms is Executive Director of the Texas Advanced Energy Business Alliance (TAEBA), the Texas chapter of Advanced Energy United. He serves on the Texas Backup Power Package Advisory Committee and previously served on the Aggregated Distributed Energy Resource (ADER) Task Force. Before joining TAEBA, he served as Director of Strategic Programs and International Manager at The Climate Reality Project. Earlier in his career, he was Communications Manager for the Communitas Coalition in New York, helping secure a UN Sustainable Development Goal for cities and communities. He holds a Master’s in Local Economic Development from the London School of Economics and is fluent in English and Spanish.