Amperion
Nachum Sadan, President and CEO
Nachum is responsible for the strategic direction of the company and the running of its business operations. He is a serial entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in computer networking and communications. Nachum was co-founder and VP Engineering of two networking startups that successfully sold.
Prior to his position at Amperion, Nachum was Chief Operating Officer of Mintera Optical Networks, a pioneer in development of 40Gbps optical transport products. Prior to Mintera, Nachum served as Executive Vice President of Technical Operations at Sitara Networks, delivering Quality of Service (QoS) products to large enterprise and service provider customers. During his period the company grew from a technology start-up into a high gross margin, revenue-producing business, serving major enterprise and telecommunications carriers worldwide.
Nachum holds an MSEE degree from Northeastern University in Massachusetts and a BSEE degree, cum laude from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. He is a member of the MIT Enterprise Forum, MassNetComms, American Technion Society, Northeastern University Alumni Association and IEEE.
Bob Mulcahy, Vice President Finance and Operations
Bob is responsible for the finance, administration, and treasury functions at Amperion. He has led all the equity and debt financing efforts at the company. He has several years of broad based experience and specific expertise within the technology/manufacturing space with extensive knowledge overseeing financial operations and financial reporting.
Prior to joining Amperion, Bob served as a Senior Financial Consultant for Parson Consulting, a high end financial consulting firm headquartered in Chicago, where he specialized in revenue recognition initiatives, SEC reporting, ERP implementations and process re-engineering efforts. Previously he was the Assistant Corporate Controller at Mercury Computer Systems, a computer systems manufacturer with unique applications serving the defense and medical industries. Prior to that, he served as Controller for several years at IDEAssociates, a privately held producer of communications processing solutions.
Bob holds an undergraduate degree from Bentley College and an MBA from Suffolk University.
Bic Stevens, Senior Financial Advisor Fundraising and Strategic Investments
Bic Stevens has more than 30 years of investment banking, venture capital, and business development experience, primarily with early-stage, high technology companies. For the past eight years, he has worked exclusively in the renewable energy and clean technology sector as a venture capitalist, investment banker, and business development executive. Over his career, Bic has served as a director of 28 high-technology companies and raised hundreds of millions in equity capital for his clients and portfolio companies.
Most recently, Bic was Senior Vice President at Premium Power Corporation, a leading manufacturer of grid-scale flow batteries. At Premium Power, Bic led the firm's sales and marketing activities, raised capital, worked with strategic partners, and developed relationships with a number of the nation's leading utility customers.
Bic was previously a Managing Partner at Ardour Capital Investments, a research and investment banking firm focused exclusively on clean and renewable technologies. At Ardour, Bic led the firm's participation as an underwriter in the successful Metabolix $50 million IPO and raised over $40 million in venture capital for a number of clean technology companies.
Prior to joining Ardour, Bic was a Managing Director at Zero Stage Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm. At Zero Stage, Bic led the firm's clean technology practice, and worked with a number of clean technology companies.
Bic was previously the founder and CEO of Eastech, an early-stage venture capital firm; and a Vice President at Paine Webber, where he worked in its investment banking and venture capital operations.
Bic received a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech, and a Master in Business Administration degree from the Harvard Business School.
Bruce Renz, Senior Advisor Utility Markets and Strategic Alliances
Bruce is providing guidance regarding Smart Grid concepts, opportunities and issues. He is also providing engineering advice on a variety of communications design topics. He has over 40 years working in the electric utility industry in a variety of leadership positions.
In September 2000, Bruce retired from American Electric Power Company, following a 36-year career, and formed Renz Consulting, LLC. Prior to retirement, Renz was AEP vice president - Energy Delivery Support. He was responsible for electrical research, electrical laboratories, telecommunications, technology delivery, I.T. application development, measurements and customer support systems.
Since retirement from AEP, he has been involved in a number of technology-related programs. As principal consultant to the DOE's National Energy Technology Laboratory, he has helped develop its Modern Grid Strategy, providing a detailed definition of many Smart Grid concepts enacted into law.
Bruce began his career with the AEP Service Corporation as an assistant engineer in 1963. He held a variety of technical and managerial positions (including assistant to the CEO) over the next several decades, becoming chief electrical engineer in 1990 and vice president in 1992.
He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology and Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, respectively. He also earned a master's degree in industrial management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Sloan Fellow, and completed the General Electric Power Systems Engineering Course and the AEP System Management Development Program at the University of Michigan.
He has been a vice president of the U. S. National Committee of CIGRE, the international conference of large, high-voltage electric systems, headquartered in Paris. He was also Chairman of the Power Engineering Society's Industry Advisory Council. He has served on the Ohio State University Electrical Engineering Department Advisory Council, the EPRI Research Advisory Committee and he chaired the EPRI Power Delivery Group Council.
A registered professional engineer in New York and Ohio, Renz has been recognized as the Columbus Technical Council's Person of the Year - 1992. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu and a Life Fellow of IEEE.
Gene Zimon, Senior Advisor Utility Markets and Business Development
Gene retired from NSTAR in July 2009 after a career of 35 years in information technology. He was SVP and CIO of NSTAR since 2001. Prior to NSTAR Gene was VP of IT at Boston Gas, VP of business development at Oracle, and held senior IT positions at Wang Laboratories, and the US Department of Labor.
He established a national reputation for his innovative uses of technology and IT management practices receiving several prestigious awards for his contributions including the ULTRA award from Public Utilities Fortnightly and the McGraw-Hill award for IT excellence. He is a frequent contributor to IT publications, advisory board member of IT associations and speaker and panelist at industry conferences.
Gene is also a limited partner in several private equity funds and an angel investor focusing on early stage companies engaged in the fields of IT, green technology, and medical technology.
He is the founder and president of Edge Advisors, a consultancy that assists startup companies and entrepreneurs market and introduce their products.
Gene has a BA in Economics from Tufts University and an MA in Economics from Boston University.
Paul Feldman, Senior Advisor Transmission Utility Markets and Smart Grid
Paul J. Feldman is Chairman of the Midwest ISO (Independent Transmission System Operator), which manages energy in 15 Midwestern states and a portion of Canada. He is also Chairman of TrendIQ, a business intelligence firm that utilizes its proprietary software to provide information from the text available via the Internet, as well as CEO of China Energy Partners, a special purpose acquisition corporation focused on energy in China.
He has been appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Energy to the National Coal Council. He also sits on several advisory boards of firms involved in energy and technology and is an active angel investor and entrepreneur in the Northern Virginia technology community.
Mr. Feldman began his career with AT&T, where he worked for 20 years in positions of increasing responsibility in marketing, sales, R&D and manufacturing, and finally, as Vice President of Consumer Products. After leaving AT&T, he served as CEO of two large energy companies, founded and sold three new ventures in the energy and technology sector, and assisted Novell in a business turnaround assignment as Vice President and General Manager.
His educational background includes a B.A. in mathematics and an M.A. in economics, with advanced work towards a Ph.D. in econometrics. Additionally, he taught at Cleveland State University as an Associate Professor.