Board of Directors

Peter B. deNeufville, Ph.D., Chairman, Board of Directors Peter currently leads the company’s Board of Directors and is a member of the Compensation and Executive Committees. He joined Voltaix in 1997 and served as the company’s Managing Director from 1999 – 2003. During that time he oversaw an expansion of the company’s engineering capabilities, an increase in its production facilities, and managed certain operating upgrades such as ISO 9001 certification in 2002. Peter previously worked in emerging market finance. He is a partner of the merchant advisory firm, DNAC, L.P. and has served as a director and helped finance a number of early stage technology companies. Peter is a reservist in the U.S. Navy and serves as a Trustee of the New Jersey Conservation Foundation. He has a B.A. from Tulane University and a Ph.D. in history from the University of London.
Matthew Finlay, Managing Director, MidMark Capital Matt joined the Voltaix Board of Directors in 2004. He chairs the company’s Compensation Committee and is a member of the Executive Committee. A partner in MidMark Capital, a New Jersey-based Private Equity firm since 1997, Matt brings with him experience from more than $1 billion of completed transactions as investment banker and principal. He is also a Board Member of Cinedigm Digital Cinema, and is chairman of the audit committee. He is a Trustee of the Morristown Community Theatre, where he is Co-Chair of the theatre’s $7 million capital campaign. Matt graduated from Yale University with a B.A. and received his MBA from Columbia Business School.
Reidar Langmo, Partner and CEO, Novus Energy Partners Reidar is a founding partner and CEO of Novus with over a decade of clean energy expertise. He was one of the founders of both ScanWafer and Renewable Energy Corp (REC), which yielded one of the world’s leading solar companies. Reidar held positions as chairman and CEO both in REC and its subsidiaries. He played a key role in connection with REC’s strategic acquisitions of ASiMI’s silicon plants both in 2002 and 2005. In 2006 REC had the most successful clean energy IPO to date with an ~$8B market cap. Reidar holds an MSc from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
John A. Moore, CEO, Acorn Energy Inc. John has been a director and Chief Executive Officer of Acorn Energy Inc. since March 2006. He was previously a Director of Comverge and served on its IPO committee. He serves on the Advisory Council of EnerTech Capital a $350 million energy technology fund. Mr. Moore was formerly President and co-founder of Edison Moore Healthcare Ventures, a fund which acquired $150 million of biotechnology assets from Elan Pharmaceuticals in 2002. John was a cofounder and CEO of Optimer Inc., a specialty materials company that was sold in 2007 to Sterling Capital. He has a BA from Rutgers University.
Mark Schwartz, Co-Founder and Chairman, MissionPoint Capital Partners Prior to founding MissionPoint, Mark served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Soros Fund Management from 2002 until early 2005. Mark worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co from 1979 to 2001 where he eventually became the Chairman of Goldman Sachs (Asia), the President of Goldman Sachs (Japan), and a member of the Firmwide Management Committee. Mark is a Trustee of New York-Presbyterian Hospital and is also actively engaged at Massachusetts General Hospital where he is a trustee, a member of the President’s Council, and a Director of the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard. Much of his work at MGH has been focused on HIV/AIDS and TB in South Africa and Uganda. Mark is also a Director of MasterCard where he serves as Chairman of the Audit Committee, and of SoftBank Corp., a leading provider of telecom and broadband services in Japan. Mark earned his undergraduate degree at Harvard College (1976), his MBA at Harvard Business School (1979) and his MPP from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard (1979).

Observers

Martin Aares, Partner, Novus Energy Partners Martin was a founding partner of Novus and and is Chairman of the Company’s Audit Committee. He was previously a Senior Vice President at GE Energy Financial Services with primary focus on equity investments in the wind, solar, biomass, and the biofuels segments. Martin also co-led GE’s carbon offset business through its joint venture with AES Corp. Prior to GE he was an investment banker with Goldman Sachs working primarily with Natural Resources and Energy companies. Martin was also a Vice President with Stern Stewart & Company, a management consulting firm, where he led the firm’s Scandinavian team. He holds a BS in Commerce from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Mark Cirilli, Co-Founder, Managing Director, MissionPoint Capital Mark Cirilli is a founding partner, member of the investment committee and co-leads MissionPoint Capital Partners overall investment strategy. Mark has led the firm’s investments in Amonix, APX, Hannon Armstrong, SunEdison, and Voltaix. Prior to forming MissionPoint, Mark served as the Chief Investment Officer of Marshall Street Management, LLC and was a Founder and Managing Partner of MSM Capital Partners, LLC, where he oversaw investment strategy in clean technology and environmental finance sectors. Prior to Marshall Street, he held Chief Financial Officer and operating positions at a retail franchise and at Cannondale Corporation, a publicly traded bicycle manufacturer. In addition, Mark was with Coopers & Lybrand’s Financial Advisory Services Group where he provided due diligence and transactions services support to Fortune 500 Companies’ mergers and acquisitions activities. Mr. Cirilli earned a BA in Accounting and Economics from Fordham University and an MBA with Distinction from Columbia University.
Sean Doyle, Director, Intel Capital Sean joined Intel Capital in 2001 as Sector Director, Technology and Manufacturing, to lead a team of investment managers supporting Intel’s global technology development and manufacturing operations. From 1997 to 2001 he was a Sr. Treasury Manager responsible for financial due diligence and structuring of over 50 investments across multiple technology disciplines and for financial oversight of Intel 64 Fund operations. Prior to Intel Capital Sean was an Associate in Corporate Finance for Laidlaw Equities and was a Marketing Manager at Oracle Corporation. Sean’s experience at Intel Capital ranges from seed stage investing to public equity investing as the lead investment manager on some of Intel Capital’s largest investments worldwide including Nikon Corporation, Elpida Memory, Stratus Technologies and Micron Corporation. Currently, Sean is a board observer at Nascentric, Inc. and at several other portfolio companies. Sean holds a BA from UC Berkeley and an MBA from UCLA.