Lauri Petersen
Manager, Infrastructure Services
Great River Energy

As Manager of Infrastructure Services at Great River Energy, Lauri provides leadership and direction to her team of network, telecommunications, and systems engineers responsible for the planning, design, engineering, build, and 3 rd level support of the technical infrastructure which includes network, telecommunications, servers, storage, and backup. The team is also responsible for technology infrastructure standards, policies, and processes; as well as, technical architecture.

Great River Energy is a not-for-profit cooperative which provides wholesale electricity to more than 1.7 million people through 28 member distribution cooperatives in Minnesota and Wisconsin. With more than $2 billion in assets, Great River Energy is the second largest utility in the states, based on generating capacity, and the fifth largest generation and transmission (G&T) cooperative in the United States.

Prior to her role at Great River Energy, Lauri has held various IT leadership roles at St. Jude Medical, Jostens, and Target Corporation.

Lauri has an Executive MBA from the University of St. Thomas.