Michael D. Picchi has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since June 2006. He joined us in February 2006 as Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer responsible for all accounting functions. From July 2004 to February 2006, Mr. Picchi was Senior Vice President—Finance and Controller for publicly-traded PRG-Schultz International, Inc., an audit recovery services firm. From February 2003 to July 2004, Mr. Picchi served as Chief Accounting Officer—Corporate Controller for Randstad North America, the U.S. operations of temporary staffing labor firm Randstad Holding, B.V. From November 1999 to January 2003, Mr. Picchi served as Vice President—Finance for publicly-traded AirGate PCS, Inc., a Sprint PCS wireless affiliate. Mr. Picchi began his career at Coopers & Lybrand LLP and is a certified public accountant and chartered financial analyst. He obtained a B.S. in Accounting and an M.B.A. in Finance from Indiana University.

Mr. Dreyer joined the Comverge Board of Directors in January 2008. In addition to his new role as non-executive Chairman, Mr. Dreyer also serves as Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Board.

Mr. Dreyer previously served as the Chief Executive Officer and a director of Horizon Wind Energy, LLC, a wind energy developer, from September 2005 to July 2007, when Horizon was sold to Energias de Portugal, S.A., a major Portuguese utility. From February 2000 to September 2005, Mr. Dreyer served as an Executive Vice President of publicly traded Dynegy, Inc. and President of Dynegy Generation, a division of Dynegy, Inc. Prior to February 2000, Mr. Dreyer was President of Illinova Generating Company, and a Senior Vice President of Illinois Power Company. Before starting his career at Illinova, Mr. Dreyer was a Senior Manager in the Accounting and Auditing Services division of PriceWaterhouse in St. Louis.

Mr. Dreyer also serves on the Board of Directors of publicly traded EcoSecurities Group PLC, which is in the business of sourcing, developing and trading carbon credits. He received a B.A. from the University of Illinois and an M.B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis.

Frank A. Magnotti has served as President of our Clean Energy Solutions Group since October 2008. Prior to that he served as President and Chief Operating Officer of our Residential Business unit from February 2005 to September 2008. He has also served as our President of Global Sales and Marketing from 2001 until 2005. He joined Acorn Energy, Inc., formerly Acorn Factor, Inc. in 1997 and also co-founded Comverge as an AEI subsidiary and served as President and General Manager from 1997 to 2001. In 1992, Mr. Magnotti founded AT&T Bell Labs' Utility Solutions Division where he was the general manager. From 1995 to 1997, he was general manager of Lucent Technology, Inc.'s Utility Solutions Division and served as general manager where he was responsible for worldwide marketing, sales, business development, project management and profit and loss efforts. Prior to this appointment, he held research, program management, strategic planning and general management positions in his 14-year term at Bell Labs. Mr. Magnotti holds B.E. and M.E. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Cooper Union School of Engineering.

Edward J. Myszka has served as Chief Operating Officer of our Clean Energy Solutions Group since October 2008. Prior to that, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer of our Products & Services Business unit from April 2005 to September 2008. Prior to joining us, he spent 17 years at Motorola, Inc., a global communications company, where he held numerous positions of increasing responsibility in business management, strategic planning and technology development. Since 2000, he was head of the OEM Energy Systems Division where he had profit and loss responsibility with operations in Asia, Europe and the U.S. From 1984 to 1988, Mr. Myszka led engineering and manufacturing efforts for Lytel, Inc., an early-stage company pioneering optoelectronic and semiconductor laser solutions for the telecommunications industry. Mr. Myszka obtained a B.S. degree from Polytechnic Institute of New York and a M.S. in Metallurgical and Material Engineering and an M.B.A. from the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Mr. Quire joined Comverge in December of 2006 as the Vice President of Engineering, with responsibility for managing all aspects of the organization's product development activities. Mr. Quire spent most of his career with Panasonic, where he held several positions of increasing responsibility within the hardware engineering organization responsible for the development of cellular handsets. Prior to joining Comverge, Mr. Quire was the Director of Engineering for EMS Wireless (now a part of Andrew Corporation), where he managed the development of base station antennas and cellular repeater products. In addition to being granted two U.S. patents, Mr. Quire earned a B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology as well as an M.B.A. (with a concentration in Finance) from Georgia State University.

Mr. Rossi has held a number of senior management positions in his 10 years with Comverge, including most recently, VP of Engineering. His current responsibilities are in Business Development for the AER group, where he leads the development team in acquiring new projects. This assignment leverages his broad industry background and intimate knowledge of Comverge solutions.

Prior to joining Comverge, Mr. Rossi spent 25 years at Bell Laboratories, the research and development arm of AT&T and later Lucent Technologies. At Bell Laboratories, Mr. Rossi held a number of engineering and management positions, including heading the Electronics and Photonics Development Department. His development work centered on digital signal processing and fiber optic communication. Mr. Rossi later co-founded and acted as Technical Director for the Lucent Utilities Solutions business unit. This unit focused on a number of R&D projects for the utility industry including automated feeder fault detection and energy data communication initiatives. In 1997, he co-founded Comverge, Inc. with Enterprise Group President and COO Frank Magnotti. Mr. Rossi holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Detroit.

Mark Schaefer has served as our Vice President, Risk Management and Administration since July 2007 and is responsible for the overall company-wide risk assessment and human resources. Prior to that, from 2001 to 2007, Mr. Schaefer was Senior Vice President – Finance of Enerwise Global Technologies, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Comverge, where he was responsible for the subsidiary's accounting, financial reporting, financial planning, insurance and human resources areas. Mr. Schaefer has over 17 years experience in strategic financial planning, analysis, and management. As an integral member of strategic planning and management teams, he has provided financial planning and forecasting leadership for new business lines, developed and implemented financial reporting processes, and analyzed the financial effects of business decisions. Mr. Schaefer received an MBA from Villanova University and his undergraduate degree from the University of Delaware in business.

Matthew H. Smith has served as our Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary since January 1, 2008. Mr. Smith joined us in January 2005 as Senior Counsel responsible for contract negotiations, intellectual property, litigation and corporate governance matters. Prior to joining us, Mr. Smith worked for the law firm King & Spalding LLP from 2002 to January 2005 concentrating primarily on intellectual property and litigation matters. Mr. Smith began his legal career as a federal appellate court clerk for Judge H. Emory Widener, Jr. on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Mr. Smith obtained a B.A. in History and Psychology and a J.D. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

As Senior Vice President of Sales, Mr. Van Denover is responsible for leading Comverge's North American sales force. He has spent the majority of his career selling complex technology solutions to electric utilities and helping them to implement these solutions. Prior to Comverge, Mr. Van Denover spent three years as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for KEMA, Inc. and 12 years as Vice President of Business Development for Schlumberger Sema/Convergent Group. Prior to this, Mr. Van Denover held a Senior Account Manager position with a leading GIS system vendor, Synercom Technology Inc., later acquired by Logica.

Throughout his tenures at these companies, Mr. Van Denover worked with many of North America's largest utilities to implement systems from large-scale AMR initiatives to Mobile Workforce Management to Real-time Energy Management systems. Mr. Van Denover holds a M.B.A. from University of Houston and a B.A. from Ball State University.

Arthur Vos IV joined us in April 2003 as our Vice President of Development for our 6DiNET Group after the acquisition of Sixth Dimension, Inc. Mr. Vos was named Vice President, Marketing, Products and Strategy in 2004. In September 2007, Mr. Vos was named our Vice President, Marketing and Strategy, in order to convey the primary focus of his work in those two areas. As co-founder and Vice President of Sixth Dimension from 1997 to April 2003, Mr. Vos has been extensively involved in the electric utility industry for over 12 years, including the development of demand response offerings based on real-time monitoring and control technology, strategic sales to electric utilities, alliances and joint product and development offerings with partner companies. Mr. Vos obtained B.S. and M.S. degrees from Colorado State University with an emphasis in artificial intelligence, distributed control systems, manufacturing systems and embedded system design.