Power Assure Board of Directors
Brad Wurtz
President and CEO
Brad's 20-year career encompasses leadership roles in growing high technology companies in the global telecommunications and data center networking markets. Before joining Power Assure, Brad served as president and board member for networking start-up, Compass Electro-Optical Systems, where he defined company strategy and successfully raised two rounds of funding. Previously, Brad was CEO and president for Caspian Networks, a supplier of high capacity routers for service providers and large enterprises. Prior to Caspian, Brad spent 10 years with Cisco Systems, where he served as vice president and general manager of the Company's carrier packet voice business. He also served as vice president and general manager of Cisco's multi-service switching business (formerly Stratacom) and before that led the development and launch of Cisco's GSR 12000 service provider router. He has a BA from University of California/Berkeley and an MBA from Stanford University.
Clemens Pfeiffer
Founder and CTO
Clemens is a 25-year veteran of the software industry, where he has held leadership roles in process modeling and automation, software architecture and database design, and data center management and optimization technologies. Before co-founding Power Assure, he served as founder, president and CEO for 10 years at International SoftDevices Corporation, focused on designing and implementing a multi-industry smart process automation platform and integration agents called "Digital Employees." Prior to SoftDevices, Clemens served as chief software architect for Hewlett Packard, in charge of innovative process automation that resulted in multiple patents and various products that helped launch the Company's software business. During his tenure at HP he modeled high level business processes and designed IT architecture recommendations for global banks, telecom companies, and the U.S. Department of Defense. He and his wife currently run a rescue center for exotic pet birds. Clemens holds a MS degree in Information Technology from Furtwangen University, Germany.
Zaid Ashai
Point Judith Capital
Zaid Ashai leads the Point Judith Cleantech investing efforts with a focus on energy IT. He joined Point Judith Capital from Good Energies, a leading multi-stage Cleantech venture firm where he led investments in cleantech companies Nexamp, 3Tier, Emergence Bioengineering, Everpower, and Kalpan. While at Good Energies, Zaid was elected a Kauffman Fellow. He joined Good Energies from HarbourVest Partners, a global private equity firm based in Boston, MA. As an associate at HarbourVest, Zaid completed early stage and growth equity investments in the technology sector. He had board level responsibilities on Intertrade Systems, Trellix Networks, Moai Technologies, and Network Engines. Before joining HarbourVest Partners, he was an investment banking analyst in Credit Suisse's Technology Group. Zaid holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and an MPA from the JFK School of Government at Harvard University. At Harvard University, Zaid was selected as a Zuckerman Fellow. He has an AB in international relations and economics, with honors and Phi Beta Kappa, from Brown University.
George Coelho
Good Energies
George Coelho heads Good Energies’ Venture Capital activities. Prior to joining Good Energies in 2008, George was with Balderton Capital (formerly known as Benchmark Capital, Europe) which he co-founded in 2000. Before founding Benchmark Capital, Europe, he led all of Intel Corporation’s strategic Venture Capital investment activities outside the U.S. Preceding that he was a founder of the group that evolved to become Intel Capital and ran the M&A group as Assistant Treasurer. George holds a B.S. from The American University and an MBA from The George Washington University. Today he is a Trustee of The George Washington University, Chairs the Sustainability Committee of the Board and is an advisor to the School of Business.
L. William Krause
Independent Board Member
L. William (Bill) Krause has been president of LWK Ventures, a private investment firm since 1991. Mr. Krause served as Chairman of the Board of Caspian Networks, an IP networking systems provider, from 2002 to 2006. Previously, Mr. Krause served as Chairman and CEO of Exodus Communications where he guided Exodus through Chapter 11 bankruptcy to a sale of assets. Prior to that, Mr. Krause was President and CEO of 3Com Corporation from February 1981 to September 1990 and Chairman of the Board from September 1987 to September 1993 when he retired. Also, Mr. Krause was employed at Hewlett-Packard Company for 14 years in various marketing and general management assignments. Mr. Krause serves as a director of the following public companies: Brocade Communications Systems, Coherent, Core-Mark Holding, and Sybase. He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and received an honorary doctorate of science from The Citadel.
Andrew Tang
ABB Technology Ventures
Andrew Tang joined the Power Assure Board of Directors in 2011. He is a Managing Director of ABB Technology Ventures (ATV). Andrew has over 15 years of operating, R&D, investment banking and investing experience in the IT industry and focuses on clean technology and industrial applications. Prior to joining ATV, he was a founding Managing Director of the DFJ DragonFund China, Draper Fisher Jurvetson's sole China affiliate venture capital fund. Andrew has led and managed investments in Miartech, Mobim, Yeepay, Broadbus (MOT), Imago Scientific, Zettacom (IDTI), Packet Video, NuTool (ASMI), Santur, and Corrent. Most recently, he was a partner and member of the investment committee at Infineon Ventures. Prior to Infineon Ventures, he was an investment banker with Credit Suisse First Boston's technology group in Palo Alto. He worked on the Magma IPO (LAVA), as well as numerous M&A transactions. Before CSFB, Andrew was a senior engineer and marketing manager at Intel Corporation where he was responsible for chip design and market enablement for the Pentium and Itanium processors. He also holds one US patent for silicon germanium thin-film transistor applications. Andrew holds an MBA from the Wharton School, as well as MSEE and BSEE degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Texas at Austin, respectively.
Don Wood
Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Don Wood is a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, where he leads the DFJ Global Network Funds and is a member of DFJ's investment team, with a primary focus on Cleantech and IT investing. The DFJ Global Network has grown to include 17 funds managing over $7B on four continents, with 140 professionals, and hundreds of active portfolio companies. Don's cleantech career began with his first post-college job at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. working in the policy planning department. Later he was SVP of Sales and Marketing at International Power Technology which designed, financed, installed and operated co-generation power plants. Don also assisted the founders of SunPower (SPWR) in writing their original business plans and raising capital. Don served on the Board and was President of Metricom (MCOM), which provided wireless smart grid systems to utilities and pioneered the first wireless mesh-network Internet service known as Ricochet.
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