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Comverge "Solutions Group" Announces New
Senior Vice President of Sales
Tom Van Denover Brings Extensive Utility Experience to Comverge Executive Team
East Hanover, NJ, April 13, 2005 – Comverge, Inc. announced today that Tom Van Denover, former Senior Vice President of North American Sales and Marketing for KEMA, Inc., will be joining Comverge as the Senior Vice President of Sales in the Comverge Solutions Group. Mr. Van Denover's extensive sales and marketing experience will bring added insight and depth to Comverge's executive team.
Mr. Van Denover has over 20 years of experience within the utility sector through his tenures at GIS company, Synercom, metering giant Schlumberger Sema and Convergent Group, and most recently KEMA, Inc. where he managed the North American sales and marketing group. Mr. Van Denover was a key member of the executive team of Convergent Group which lead a start-up company to its initial public offering. Mr. Van Denover's strong sales and marketing background are supported by an MBA and successive top performance awards in each of his positions.
"We are fortunate to have Tom joining our team," said Comverge CEO Robert Chiste. "Tom's accomplished background will make him an invaluable asset to the Comverge team as we grow our Solutions Group, under the leadership of Ed Myszka, into a full provider of End-to-End Energy IntelligenceSM solutions." Mr. Van Denover commented on his enthusiasm for his new role by stating: "Comverge, with its traditional Solutions Group and innovative Enterprises Group (which pursues fully outsourced long-term Virtual Peaking CapacitySM agreements), is in an excellent position to deliver ever increasing value to its customers and shareholders. I look forward to working with the Comverge executive team and its highly talented sales force to set and achieve sales targets that will contribute to this value creation while continuing to focus on improving customer intimacy, one of Comverge's core competencies." Mr. Van Denover's contact information can be found at http://www.comverge.com/contact/sales.php.
About Comverge, Inc.
Comverge, Inc., The Power in Power TechnologyTM, is a leading energy intelligence company whose
investors include Nth Power, EnerTech Capital, Data Systems & Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: DSSI), E.ON
Venture Partners GmbH (NYSE: EON), Ridgewood Capital, Easton Hunt Capital Partners, L.P., Norsk
Hydro Technology Ventures (NYSE: NHY), Rockport Capital Partners, and Shell Internet Ventures, an
affiliate of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies (NYSE: RD). Comverge is represented across the
world with offices and research facilities in Atlanta, Georgia; East Hanover, NJ; Newark, California;
Pensacola, Florida; and Tel Aviv, Israel. Providing software and system solutions to over 500 clients in the
electric utility industry, Comverge implements both integrated and outsourced solution based models for
remote meter reading, distributed generation monitoring, and time-of-use billing and demand response,
and direct or voluntary load control initiatives. For more information visit www.comverge.com.
Media Contact
At Comverge, Bud Vos, Vice President of Marketing, 973.884.5970, bvos@comverge.com
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