Tony McGrail

Tony McGrail is solutions director for asset management and monitoring technology at Doble Engineering Co., providing condition, criticality and risk analysis for utilities. Previously, he spent over 10 years with National Grid in the UK and the U.S., as both a substation equipment specialist and an asset policy manager, identifying risks and opportunities for investment in an aging infrastructure. McGrail is chair of the IEEE working group on asset management, a member of IET, CIGRE and IAM, as well as a contributor to SFRA and other standards at IEEE, IEC and CIGRE. His initial degree was in physics, supplemented by a master’s degree and a doctorate in electrical engineering as well as an MBA degree. McGrail is an adjunct professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts, leading courses in power systems analysis.