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Norcross, GA-based Comverge has Appointed Art Beckman as Chief Information Officer
About the Company
Comverge is an industry-leading provider of integrated demand response, energy efficiency, and customer engagement solutions that enable electric utilities to ensure grid reliability, lower energy costs, meet regulatory demands, and enhance the customer experience. Through its combination of software, hardware, and services, Comverge helps utilities optimize the management of every aspect of an energy management program, from participant recruitment and device installation to call center support, control events, and measurement and verification. Comverge has worked with hundreds of electric utilities to deploy nearly six million energy management devices and enroll more than 1.6 million residential customers into mass-market demand management programs. Through the creation of a work environment that fosters innovation and creativity, Comverge will become a leading provider of energy management solutions that empower utilities and residential customers to optimize energy use in order to reduce costs, meet regulatory requirements and support sustainability initiatives resulting in high customer satisfaction with our integrated offerings and services. We aim to help create a greener planet and environment through the delivery of cutting edge, engaging energy management solutions and products that provide customers a rich experience in controlling energy while delivering meaningful economic benefits.
About the Person
At Comverge, Art Beckman is responsible for product strategy and driving innovation across Comverge’s demand response, energy efficiency and customer engagement solutions, as well as managing the company’s information technology (IT) operations. Prior to joining Comverge, Mr. Beckman was the Program Director of the HP Software Innovation Program, where ideas were born and incubated to support solutions for cloud computing, IT energy management, business intelligence and long-term project strategies. He was also responsible for spearheading the Management of Change framework to support the HP Software Operating Model Transformation and HP Marketing Process Transformation. Before joining HP, Mr. Beckman was with Indus International, a software company with asset and customer management solutions serving the utility industry, where he was responsible for product development, the technology roadmap, customer support, and IT. Prior to Indus, he spent 15 years at PG&E, managing various technology areas and development teams in support of creating PG&E’s distributed computing environment and developing applications in support of construction, materials management, and payables functions. Mr. Beckman is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley with a Bachelor of Sciences degree in Computer Science. He is also a graduate of the Program for Management Development at Harvard University. He has been a board member of innovation and technology groups including Intel Corporation’s Corporate Advisory Board and the Nuclear Leadership Council.
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