R. Blake Young was named President & Chief Executive Officer of Comverge in February of 2010. He was previously a member of our board of directors since August 2006 and served as Chairman of the compensation committee and was also a member of the nominating and corporate governance committee. Mr. Young is the founder of Cap2ity Consulting Group, a business, technology and management consulting group based in Houston. Previously Mr. Young was the Senior Vice President, Global IT & Technology for BG Group, an international London-based energy company. Mr. Young previously held various senior management positions with publicly-traded Dynegy Inc. from 1998 to 2005, including Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer. He also served as President of Illinois Power Company, Dynegy's electric and gas transmission and distribution company. He was responsible for corporate strategy and development, human resources, information technology, corporate communications and other major functions. Prior to such assignment, he was Executive Vice President & President of Global Technology at Dynegy. Prior to Dynegy, Mr. Young was with Campbell Soup Company at their World Headquarters and served as Chief Information Officer of the US Grocery Division. Prior to his tenure with Campbell Soup, Mr. Young had a 14-year career with Tenneco Energy, a large integrated natural gas transporter and marketer and served in a number of senior administrative and commercial management positions, including as Chief Information Officer and Chief of Staff to the Chairman and CEO.

Mr. Picchi joined us in February 2006 as Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer responsible for all accounting functions and was named Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer in June 2006. He was named to our Board of Directors in 2010. 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 February 2002 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.

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.

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.

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.