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March
1, 2007
Bend,
OR, USA: PV Powered Announces New Executive Appointments
Inverter
manufacturer, PV Powered has announced the appointment of Gregg
Patterson as CEO and Chairman of the Board, and Erick Petersen
as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, to manage
its fast-growing business.
Gregg
Patterson |
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22-year veteran of Hewlett-Packard Corp., Patterson was most recently
a Vice President and General Manager at HP. Over his career at
HP, he's held numerous executive positions spanning worldwide
manufacturing, R&D, and general management, leading businesses
with annual revenues in excess of $1B in both the enterprise and
consumer market segments.
Petersen
recently held the title of Vice President and General Manager
for Planar Systems' Commercial Business Unit, based in Beaverton,
OR. He created the business strategy and assembled the team that
grew this business from zero to $100M in three years.
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Erick
Petersen
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"PV
Powered is growing at an annual rate of more than 150%, and we've
experienced some growing pains," said Scott Taylor, lead investor
in PV Powered and member of the company's Board of Directors.
"Gregg and Erick have had tremendous success growing and scaling
diverse businesses, and will focus that expertise on greatly enhancing
the quality and reliability of our products as well as the service
and support that we provide to our customers."
"The
PV Powered engineering team has produced the highest efficiency
inverters on the market today," says Patterson. "But it will take
more than just hitting high CEC efficiency numbers. Our mission
is to deliver highest efficiency while quickly becoming the industry
leader in reliability and support."
"The
success of our business hinges on assisting our dealers and installers
to be successful in this dynamic market," adds Petersen. "We are
committed to help make the folks on the front lines who design
and install our systems be successful by ensuring that they get
consistently superior service and support from our company in
addition to highly reliable products."
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details about: PV Powered
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