Cristina Botero currently serves as the Senior Manager for the Beneficial Electrification (BE) team at ComEd, which is part of the Clean Energy Solutions organization. In her role, she serves as ComEd’s primary subject matter expert on Electric Vehicles (EV) and her team is in charge of shaping and evolving ComEd’s BE plans, strategy, and customer's offerings in the EV space, including residential, business and public sector rebate programs for EV charging infrastructure and fleet electric vehicles. She has been with ComEd for five years, previously managing the Distributed Energy Resources (DER) Engineering team and Distribution Reliability Programs team.

Prior to joining ComEd, Cristina held multiple Engineering roles with Tesla, BP, Argonne National Lab, MIT, and GE focusing on diverse energy technologies including carbon capture, power generation, biofuels, energy storage, and oil refining. Cristina also has hands-on manufacturing experience at BP’s largest oil refinery in Indiana and at Tesla’s battery Gigafactory in Nevada.

Cristina has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Dipl. -Ing in Chemical Engineering from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany). She is currently an MBA Candidate at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Class of 2025.