Acumentrics Corp.

Gary Simon has a broad-ranging 33-year career that includes Fortune 500 companies, small start-up businesses, and consulting to major energy companies. Prior to Acumentrics, Gary was the Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Business Development at Northeast Utilities, where he had responsibility for corporate R&D as well as for business planning and strategic M&A transactions. In that position, Gary had a major role in over $2.5 billion of transactions, was the head of corporate venture investing, and was a member of the senior management committee. He was responsible for analysis of markets, competitors, new business ventures, acquisition targets and business unit performance. Previously, Gary was Senior Director and head of the Global Power Practice for Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) for nine years, where he provided advice on the future directions of the industry and the sources of strategic advantage, including the emergence of new technologies. Earlier, Gary was Vice President of sales and marketing for El Paso Natural Gas Company. Gary also served four years as the head of forecasting and planning for the California Energy Commission and five years as senior consultant to the energy committees of the California State Assembly. Gary has a master's degree from the University of California, Davis, and a bachelor's degree from Indiana University. Gary also serves as President of Sigma Energy Group, a clean technology investment and advisory firm. He is a board member of Capstone Turbine, SmartPower, and Rentricity, as well as the Sacramento Area Regional Technology Alliance, and the McCllellan Technology Incubator.

Mr. Rick Pierro, President, is co-founder and owner of Superior Controls and has twenty-three years of control systems experience. Mr. Pierro received a Bachelors in Chemistry from Boston University in 1981, and an MS in Chemical Engineering from University of Lowell-Mass in 1983. His graduate level thesis involved testing advanced PID tuning techniques for process control applications. Also, while developing his thesis during those two years, he taught several process control lab courses and later attended business courses at Harvard Business School. After graduating, Mr. Pierro worked as an application engineer at a systems integrator designing and implementing PLC based control systems for the chemical and food and beverage industries for three years. Over the next eight years, he advanced through positions in project engineering, sales, and sales management before co-founding Superior Controls in 1993. Mr. Pierro is currently on the Board of Directors and is Vice President of ISPE-Boston, a Trustee of the New Hampshire High Tech Council, and Chairman of the Board of Advisors to the University of Mass Lowell Chemical Engineering Department. He is also a recipient of the "Distinguished Engineering Award" from the Francis College of Engineering at the University of Mass-Lowell. He serves on both the Board of Directors of Acumentrics Corporation, a leading fuel cell company, and E-Trolz, a leading provider of technology for electrophysiological medical devices.

James Rosenfield is Co-Founder and Senior Advisor of Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), a leading international energy research and advisory firm known for independent insight into the energy future. For over two decades Mr. Rosenfield helped drive CERA's growth, including strategy, new products, sales and marketing, business development and operations. He is a Senior Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government; and is a Corporation Member of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Douglas Foy is the President of DIF Enterprises, a company devoted to sustainable business practices and the development of social enterprises. Prior to founding DIF Enterprises in 2006, Mr. Foy served as the first Secretary of Commonwealth Development in the administration of Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. In leading this "super-Secretariat", Mr. Foy oversaw the agencies of Transportation, Housing, Environment, and Energy, with combined annual capital budgets of $5 billion, operating budgets of $500 million, and a total workforce of more than 11,000. Before his service in the Romney administration, Mr. Foy served for 25 years as the President of the Conservation Law Foundation, New England's premier environmental advocacy organization. Among other awards, Mr. Foy has received the President's Environmental and Conservation Challenge Award, the country's highest conservation award, and the Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service from the Woodrow Wilson Center, the national memorial to President Wilson. Mr. Foy, a member of the 1968 USA Olympic Rowing Team and the 1969 USA National Rowing Team, graduated from Princeton University as a University Scholar in engineering and physics, attended Cambridge University in England as a Churchill Scholar in geophysics, and graduated from Harvard Law School.