SCE In Your Community

Meet The Speakers' Bureau

Presentations by SCE representatives are available at no cost to service clubs, schools, faith-based organizations, senior and consumer groups and business and professional organizations.

Multilingual representatives are available. Our speakers are knowledgeable, and they bring their presentations to life by inspiring informative discussions with the groups they address. Some of our most popular presentations include:

Electric Vehicles
Edison SmartConnect™ & smart meters
Economic Assistance Programs
SCE Programs & Services
Energy Conservation
Edison: Past, Present and Future
Electrical Safety
Alternative & Renewable Energy

Rudy Perez

Rudy Perez is the Manager of SCE's solar rooftop program, which will install 250 Megawatts of solar photovoltaic panels for Southern California Edison.

With more than 27 years at the utility, Rudy has worked as a research and development manager within the transmission and distribution Unit working with small distributed generators. Additionally, Rudy brings 17 years of experience in the operation of large oil and gas-fired power plants.

Rudy has earned undergraduate degrees in chemical engineering and economics from the University of Notre Dame, as well as an MBA from California State University, Long Beach. He also holds a professional mechanical engineer's license.

Rudy was born in Havana, Cuba, and immigrated to the United States in 1960. He lives in Sierra Madre with his wife and has two small children.

Connie Turner

Connie Turner is a regional manager with Southern California Edison. She is responsible for legislative outreach for both city and state elected officials for the cities of Cerritos, Gardena, Lynwood, South Gate and Signal Hill.

Connie earned her bachelor's in business administration from North Carolina A&T State University, and her master's in business administration from National University in Irvine. She also holds certificates of completion from the University of California at Los Angeles in both executive management and managerial negotiations.

She lives in Lake Forest, and enjoys bicycling, walking, jogging and playing one-on-one basketball with her son.

Ronald Garcia

Ronald Garcia is a regional public affairs manager with Southern California Edison. Ronald joined the utility 41 years ago working in field construction. In his current position, he serves the cities of Bell, Bell Gardens, Cudahy, Huntington Park, Maywood, Vernon, Walnut Park, and un-incorporated areas of Los Angeles County.

Ronald is a veteran having served in the United States Marine Corps. He is active in many civic, social, service, and youth activities. He has served as president of six chambers of commerce, was named Maywood businessman of the year in 1993, was the Los Angeles County/Hawaii region Boys and Girls Club of America volunteer of the year in 2002, and the Santa Paula Toastmaster's 1983 winner of the California-Nevada Speech Contest.

Ron lives in Santa Paula, and has two daughters and six grandchildren.

Michael Lattimore

Michael Lattimore is an IT specialist engineer and Microsoft certified professional with Southern California Edison. As a founding member and consulting advisor to the Edison Anti-Vulnerability Emergency Response Team, he is responsible for security awareness programs for the SCE business units.

A professional associate of the National Speakers Association, Mike has also been a longtime member of the Edison Powerlines Toastmasters International club. Additionally, as a member of SCE's speaker's bureau, Mike has conducted internet safety seminars for high school students and community organizations, as well as home computer security workshops internally for a number of SCE business units.

Mike resides at his home in Altadena with his two daughters, has five grandsons, two grand-daughters and two dogs, Spike and Sophie.

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