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Rod Boucher was the founder and CEO of EnergyConnect, Inc. from its inception in 1998 to the end of 2008. Before forming EnergyConnect, Mr. Boucher served as Chief Executive Officer of Calpine Power Services and Senior Vice President of Calpine Corporation from 1995 to 1998. He served as Chief Operating Officer of Citizens Power and Light and held a number of senior management positions with PacifiCorp and United Illuminating Company including Chief Information Officer, Vice President of Operations, Vice President of Power Resources, and Director of Engineering.  Mr. Boucher holds an AMP certificate from Harvard Business School, an MS in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic University and a BS from Oregon State University.  Mr. Boucher is a member of several non-profit boards and a senior fellow of the American Leadership Forum.

        Gary Conley was elected as a director in December 2005. He is Chairman and CEO of H₂Go, a renewables research and develop company. Mr. Conley is founder, former CEO and currently Chairman of SolFocus, a solar company commercializing advanced concentrator solar technology. He served as CEO of GuideTech, a manufacturer of semiconductor test equipment from July 2003 to February 2005. He was Senior Vice President in charge of the Memory Test Division at Credence Corporation, a manufacturer of semiconductor test equipment, from May 1993 to November 1996. Mr. Conley was President of EPRO, a manufacturer of semiconductor test equipment from January 1990 to May 1993, at which time the business was sold to Credence.  Mr. Conley has been an active investor in early stage, advanced technology companies. He sits on the boards of several companies.

Kevin Evans serves as EnergyConnect’s President and Chief Executive Officer.  Prior to starting at EnergyConnect in January 2009, Mr. Evans served as the Chief Business Officer  and the Chief Financial Officer at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) from 2003 to 2008.  From 1999 to 2003 he was  Chief Financial Officer for PlaceWare, Inc. when it was acquired by  Microsoft. Mr. Evans also served as VP Finance and Operations and CFO for Sequel, Inc.,  a VC funded MBO of Memorex’s disc drive business which he subsequently sold to Solectron. Mr. Evans held his first CFO position for Madge Networks, N.V., which developed and manufactured ATM, Ethernet, ISDN and Token Ring networking technology. He has held a number of finance and management positions for Merisel, Inc., Kerr Glass Manufacturing Corp., Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. and ARA Services, Inc. Mr. Evans holds a dual bachelor’s degree in Economics and Management from Sonoma State University and a master’s in Business Administration from San Diego State University.

John Metcalf was elected as a director in June 2007. Since November 2002, Mr. Metcalf has been a Partner with Tatum LLC, the largest executive services and consulting firm in the United States. Mr. Metcalf has 19 years experience as a CFO, most recently at ESI, a provider of high-technology manufacturing equipment to the global electronics market. Prior to ESI, Mr. Metcalf served as CFO for Siltronic, WaferTech, Siltec Corporation, and OKI Semiconductor. Mr. Metcalf began his career at AMD, where he worked for eleven years in a number of finance managerial positions including Director and Controller of North American Operations. Mr. Metcalf also currently serves on the Board of Directors and is Chairman of the Audit Committee for ParkerVision. He holds a bachelor’s of science in marketing and a master’s of business administration in finance from the University of California at Berkeley.

Kurt Yeager was elected as a director in May 2007.  Mr. Yeager has more than 30 years of experience in the energy industry and energy research and was the past President and Chief Executive Officer of the Electric Power Research Institute (“EPRI”), the national collaborative research and development organization for electric power. Under Mr. Yeager’s leadership, EPRI evolved from a non-profit electric power research institute into a family of companies encompassing collaborative and proprietary R&D as well as technical solution applications for the electricity enterprise in the U.S. and over 40 other countries.  As CEO, Mr. Yeager also led the electricity enterprise-wide collaborative development of the landmark Electricity Technology Roadmap, and the Electricity Sector Framework for the Future. Mr. Yeager also served as the director of Energy R&D Planning for the EPA Office of Research. He was with the MITRE Corporation as associate head of the Environmental Systems Department. Mr. Yeager recently released his book, Perfect Power: How the Microgrid Revolution Will Unleash Cleaner, Greener, More Abundant Energy.