India James of James Infrastructure Company

Louisiana has the highest industrial control system density in the nation, recurring weather-driven infrastructure risk, and rapidly escalating cybersecurity expenses. It is the country's most strategically relevant environment for OT cybersecurity insights (and emerging critical facilities like data centers) that can be exported around the globe. Governance structures and resilience models that reduce operational risk, demonstrate affordability, and attract large-scale industrial investment position Louisiana first for exportable intelligence. 

Biography:

India James is an accomplished and nationally recognized executive whose career spans governance, risk, and enterprise execution and transformation across U.S. energy and critical infrastructure sectors. She delivers a combination of policy and operational expertise, grounded in almost two decades of private-sector leadership with public-sector collaboration focused on infrastructure development and resilience. 

India served as Director, Security and Technology Policy for one of the nation's largest energy providers, where she led enterprise-wide responsibilities across IT, operational technology, and physical security — leveraging her experience on both the regulated and competitive sides of energy alongside real estate, critical operations, and large load management. With the EEI Security and Technology Grid of the Future Committee, her contributions and collaboration included all the U.S. investor-owned electric companies. 

India is internationally recognized for her work at the intersection of energy, security & technology, and critical infrastructure. She has raised over $4 billion in energy financing leading real estate and held leadership roles in customer strategy, infrastructure risk, and regulatory compliance, where she led multi-million-dollar modernization and partnership initiatives. Her work has influenced national standards for grid modernization, operational technology security, and resilience planning, guiding how energy systems evolve in a data-driven, high-risk environment.

India currently advises executives, boards, and organizations on integrating land acquisition, energy and critical infrastructure security, and technology policy into enterprise and infrastructure strategy.