Power Assure Management Team
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
Chief Technology Officer
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.
Thi Nguyen
Vice President, Engineering and Operations
Thi Nguyen has over 20 years of engineering experience in the telecommunications and computer industries. Thi recently served as co-founder and vice president of engineering at Movo Inc., producer of on-demand IP video equipment. Prior to Movo, Thi was the vice president of software engineering at optical networking start-up Opvista. Before that he served as vice president of software engineering for access devices manufacturer, Verilink and earlier with metro optical networking company, Polaris Networks. Thi held various engineering management positions at Cisco Systems, concluding as Director of Engineering, in charge of a 100+ member team responsible for the development of software and hardware platforms for voice services and media gateway products. He holds a BS in computer engineering from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, CA.
Clem Cooper
Chief Financial Officer
Clem has over 25 years of Finance, Accounting and Operations experience in technology, service and biotech companies He has worked in Fortune 500 and start-up businesses, including fifteen years in CFO positions. Clem’s expertise includes strategic planning, fund-raising, cash and financial management, budgeting and reporting. During his career, Clem has managed companies through product development and product launch, participated in an IPO, handled SEC reporting and public market listing issues and sold companies to corporate acquirers. Recently, Clem was CFO of Cemaphore Systems, a disaster recovery software company. In addition, he has held management roles with Siemens, IBM and Coopers & Lybrand (now PwC). Clem holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from University College Dublin, Ireland and is a Chartered Accountant.
Alex Fielding
Chief Technology Officer, Federal;
Vice President, Business Development
Alex Fielding has extensive operations management and research and development expertise in the telecommunications, security, network products, and data center space. Prior to joining Power Assure, Alex was CEO and co-founder of secure encryption products company, Ripcord Networks, where his team developed a suite of fully interoperable cross-platform encrypted communications solutions for real-time voice and video communications. Before Ripcord, Alex co-founded with Steve Wozniak, Wheels of Zeus, a venture-funded GPS locator company. Previously, Alex was CTO of TVDC, a colo.com data center company and before that served as west coast manager for Platinum Network Engineering at Exodus Communications. Alex also held engineering management positions at Apple Computer and Cisco Systems. He is a member of two National Institute of Standards and Technology working groups focused on SCAP for real-time secure communications, an active contributor to IETF, and a founding member of Singularity University at NASA Ames Research Center. Alex is a co-author and contributor on several patent applications. He is currently serving on the Board of Directors at both PharmaCapture and non-profit CAWEW and is an advisor to TED MED and the Lifeboat Foundation.
Jim McCray
Vice President, Marketing
Jim brings 30 years of experience in product marketing, energy management, engineering, operations and executive management in the enterprise software market to Power Assure. His expertise and marketing skills have played a strategic role in enhancing market presence and positioning companies for greater growth. His past experience includes executive roles at Siebel Systems, Accenture, Green Building Studio (now Autodesk) Infotility, and Pacific Gas and Electric. As Vice President of Marketing, Jim will lead Power Assure¹s efforts to rapidly expand their position in the fast-growing global energy markets, providing data center operators visibility into actual capacity, power use, and performance, while increasing reliability and enabling participation in emerging smart grid energy markets. Jim holds BS degrees from University of Wisconsin-Madison in Mechanical Engineering - Energy Systems and Education/Demographic Research.
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