ZBB Energy Corporation Announces Appointment of Vice President Marketing and Sales
ZBB Energy Corporation (AMEX: ZBB) today announced that Mr. Kevin A Dennis has been appointed Vice President of Marketing and Sales. He brings extensive expertise in the utility and renewable energy markets worldwide. Mr. Dennis will commence duties with ZBB Energy effective January 28th, 2008. For the past 10 years, Mr. Dennis has held various senior management roles with ABB (NYSE: ABB), a multi-billion dollar company and international leader in power and automation technologies for utility and industry customers.
“We are very excited to welcome Kevin to our senior management team,” commented, Mr. Rob Parry, ZBB Energy’s Chief Executive Officer. His addition represents a major milestone in expanding our sales and marketing division. Kevin brings a wealth of sales, marketing, power electronics engineering and management to ZBB. Kevin will formulate and focus our sales and marketing initiatives and help identify new and expanding market opportunities for our products as we move into 2008 with our emphasis on market expansion.”
Commenting on his appointment, Mr. Dennis, said, “I am very excited to be joining ZBB at this point in time, when the markets for energy storage systems are truly starting to evolve and become understood, particularly with renewable energy applications and the worldwide focus on energy efficiency and sustainability and at a time when ZBB’s energy storage systems are being accepted for commercial deployment.”
Mr. Dennis was most recently Director, Advanced Power Electronics — North America based in New Berlin, Wisconsin. This group was assigned global responsibility for ABB’s low voltage Power Conversion Systems (PCS) business in 2006 with a focus on applications in advanced generation including renewable energy and storage technologies, power supplies, power quality and frequency control. As Director of this group, he took an active role in both sales and new market identification and penetration and oversaw significant growth in revenue. Previous to this position, Mr. Dennis was the Manager of Sales for the same group, with profit and loss and budgeting responsibilities for the group.
Prior to ABB, Mr. Dennis spent four years as a sales engineering manager for Omnion Power Engineering Corporation, a manufacturer of power electronics systems for advanced energy systems. His early career also includes six years as a design engineer with American Electric Power Service Corporation (AEP) in Columbus, Ohio.
Kevin Dennis holds a Bachelors of Science, Electrical Engineering from Michigan Technological University. He is a registered professional engineer in the States of Wisconsin and California and is a member of the IEEE (Power Electronics Group). He is a past member of National Electrical Testing Association (NETA), participated as an industry representative in the working group for the development of Underwriters Laboratory standard, UL 741, for utility grid connected power converters. He also participates in various renewable energy and energy storage organizations.
About ZBB Energy Corporation
ZBB Energy Corporation develops and manufactures distributed energy storage solutions based on the Company’s proprietary zinc-bromine rechargeable electrical energy storage technology. The unique, modular construction of the Company’s core 50 kWh product enables ZBB’s battery to be sized and packaged as a fully customized, large format, energy storage system. This scaleable, mobile system is ideally suited for a number of large market applications.
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