Elise Benoit is the Head of Marketing and Commercial Communications at Enel X - North America. She supports advertising and branding for Enel X's advanced energy services and drives the e-commerce, product marketing and to-to-market strategies for its residential and commercial smart EV charging solutions.

For the past 25 years, Elise has been designing successful business strategies for energy startups and high-growth technology companies including AutoGrid (a predictive analytics and flexibility management platform), ICE Energy (a thermal energy storage startup), Opower (a behavioral energy efficiency platform acquired by Oracle), CivicSolar (an online solar distributo acquired by CED Greentech), Autodesk, and Ask Jeeves. 

Elise has an MBA from ESCP Europe, a leading European business school, as well as a master's degree in Communications and Media Management from the Sorbonne University.