April Bolduc, Founder & President of S Curve Strategies
April Bolduc
FOUNDER & PRESIDENT
April is passionate about transportation electrification and has both been in the industry and driven electric since 2011. She has inspired thousands of drivers to do the same by working with states, counties, and utilities across the U.S. to develop and launch their electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure strategies.
April assists state and county agencies create fast charging corridors and strong EV policies. She helps utilities build strong EV teams, develop strategic plans and implement their EV customer experience efforts. Her clients rely on her for her innovative stakeholder engagement efforts that gain both regional consensus and results.
April has done hundreds of speaking engagements and media interviews on overcoming barriers to transportation electrification.
Prior to forming S Curve Strategies in 2017, April led San Diego Gas & Electric’s EV customer experience. April’s holistic approach to EV program development and grassroots campaigns has been the key to her success. Today, this region has one of the highest EV adoption rates of any city in the country.
April led the utility’s annual National Drive Electric Week — named twice by Plug In America as the Largest EV Day Event in the World.
Prior to her EV program development role, April was the utility media relations spokesperson for innovative technology efforts like electric vehicles, smart meters, smart grid, smart cities, cybersecurity, and microgrids. She began in the energy sector as Corporate Communications for the utility's parent company Sempra Energy, a Fortune 500 company. Prior to that, she led communications for a dynamic public relations agency for Fortune 500 clients.
April is a graduate of UC San Diego with a Bachelor of Arts in communication.
Volunteerism
Even her volunteer time is spent on growing EV adoption. April is Past President of the Electric Vehicle Association, and Past Co-Chair of the Smart Electric Power Association EV Working Group Distribution Planning Committee. She is a member of Plug In America, Women in Electric Vehicles, Forth, Cleantech San Diego, the Western Utilities Public Affairs Group, and past president of the Public Relations Society of America San Diego Chapter.
Certifications
S Curve Strategies is a certified women-owned business by the California Public Utilities Commission Supplier’s Clearing House, Caltrans, State of New York, Women Business Enterprise National Council, and the U.S. Small Business Association.
Randy Schimka, P.E.
EV CHARGING INFRASTRUCTURE EXPERT
Randy Schimka has over 35 years of utility engineering experience including a decade of experience in transportation electrification and electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
Randy has led numerous projects at San Diego Gas & Electric including Clean Transportation, the Transmission Control Center, Substation Engineering, Distribution Reliability, and Regulatory Cyber Security Standards.
As part of the utility’s Clean Transportation Team, Randy was affectionately dubbed the “EV King” by co-workers due to his wide range of experience and technical EV and charging systems knowledge. Randy served as a technical witness for the utility in several EV-related California Public Utility Commission proceedings for charging station and infrastructure programs.
Randy’s passion is the engineering, specification, and implementation of EV charging solutions for regions across the U.S. Clients highly regard his engineering knowledge and insight to every project when designing the best solutions possible.
As an enthusiastic driver of electric cars for more than a decade, Randy walks the EV talk. He combines this vast real-world experience with every transportation electrification project he undertakes.
Volunteerism
When Randy is not taking EV road trips with his son to Texas, Canada, Lake Tahoe, Colorado, the Grand Canyon, and the San Francisco Bay Area, you’ll find him educating others about the benefits of driving electric. Randy often speaks to non-profit groups across the country about how to reduce emissions by transitioning to electric cars, trucks, and buses.
Randy is a member of the Electric Vehicle Association, a past board member of the San Diego Regional Clean Cities Coalition, and a past board member of the National Foundation for Autism Research. Each year Randy hosts a fundraiser for the Stein Education Center, one of the first private special education schools in the San Diego region for students with Autism. He has raised over $10,000 annually for several years to pay for the students’ Winter Camp activities and classroom technology.
Certifications
Randy is a Registered Electrical Engineer with the State of California.