Phoenix, Az., USA - December 16, 2009, Phoenix, Az., USA - ECOtality, Inc., a greeen energy company, announced the addition of three new board members.
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Mr. Dave Kuzma, former President of Sempra Energy Resources and Chief Financial Officer/Treasurer of three Fortune 500 companies; Mr. Jack Smith, Inventor and Co-founder of Hotmail; and Mr. Daryl Magana, Founder of BidCom.
Dave Kuzma is former president of Sempra Energy Resources and Chief Financial Officer/Treasurer of three Fortune 500 companies. Prior to Sempra Energy, Mr. Kuzma was Chief Financial Officer and treasurer of Enova Corporation, which is the parent company of San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) and several other US-based subsidiaries, for which he also served as CFO/Treasurer.
He also served as the Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President at Florida Progress Corporation. Mr. Kuzma began his career as an auditor for Price Waterhouse, after which he joined Consolidated Natural Gas Company of Pittsburgh. There he held the positions of Manager of Finance, Director of Internal Auditing, Assistant Treasurer, Finance Treasurer and Vice President and General Manager during his 20-year career with the company.
Jack Smith invented and co-founded Hotmail and served as the company's Chief Technology Officer prior to it being acquired by Microsoft in 1997. After Hotmail's acquisition, Mr. Smith focused on advanced infrastructure design as a general manager at Microsoft. Mr. Smith next served as co-founder and CEO of Akamba Corporation, where he invented and marketed the first Web server accelerator card that boosted server performance by 300 percent. From 2001 until 2007, Mr. Smith seed funded, advised, and/or directed early stage tech startup companies. One such company was Ironport Systems, in which he invested and where he served on its board for seven years, prior to its acquisition by Cisco.
Mr. Smith was named CEO of Proximex Corporation in 2007 and has successfully developed Proximex's leadership margin in the physical security information management market. Mr. Smith co-founded Valley Inception, LLC which makes seed investments in early stage companies and provides marketing, public relations, and project management services for equity. His earlier background includes semiconductor design as an engineer and various technical positions at Apple Computer and FirePower Systems, a subsidiary of Canon Computer Systems.
Daryl Magana is a Partner at Cybernaut Capital Management. Mr. Magana joined Cybernaut in 2006 as Partner and Head of Global Operations with over 20 years experience in executive management, finance, start-up, technology, and franchising. Mr. Magana has been Founder, Chairman and CEO of the China-based consulting and technology firm SRS2. ■