February 1, 2007
James McCray, Joins Infotility, Inc. ,as Chief Operating and Marketing Officer
Former Accenture and Siebel Product Exec Brings 27 Years of Software Product Marketing and Engineering Experience in Global Utility Software Business
Boulder, CO - February 1, 2007 - Infotility, Inc. announced that James McCray has joined the company as Chief Operating Officer. McCray brings 27 years of enterprise software product marketing, energy industry engineering, and executive management experience to GridAgents. During the past seven years, McCray was Director of Sales and Marketing for Accenture’s Field Force Transformation offerings for North American Utilities, COO of Green Building Studio, Inc, and General Manager of Siebel Systems Energy Industry Products Division. At Infotility, Inc., McCray will be responsible for commercialization of the GridAgents Framework, as well as global marketing, sales, strategic planning, business development, and alliances with major T&D software and services companies and advanced metering and monitoring (AMI) companies.
"We are thrilled that Jim has agreed to join our team, driving the company's growth and global expansion,” said David Cohen, CEO of Infotility. “The GridAgents Framework has incredible R&D support across the SmartGrid communities, and is currently being tested and readied for commercialization at CSRIO in Australia and with ConEd/DOE’s 3G System of the Future project in lower Manhattan. As utilities look to realize the benefits of the smart metering and monitoring systems today and in the future, the Infotility GridAgents platform will be a key enable for the SmartGrid of the Future. With solid support for GridAgents R&D and commercialization from DOE, EPRI Intelligrid, the Galvin Initiative, and CSRIO, we are well-positioned to introduce this innovative new technologies to the T&D SmartGrid of the Future marketplace, accelerating our marketing and sales efforts."
"Our GridAgent Framework offers a simplified approach for monitoring and managing utility microgrids and distributed energy resources. GridAgents expands on the new smart-metering and AMI, providing real-time data streaming, processing, and control capabilities without the overheads of centralized data collection and warehousing,” said James McCray, the new Chief Operating Officer at GridAgents. "The GridAgents Framework has been tested by CSIRO on over 10,000 monitoring and control points across commercial and residential buildings and distributed energy resources such as generators and photovoltaic’s. We believe that utilities, T&D automation vendors, and equipment manufacturers will be interested in these new technologies, and also have applications in larger markets such as defense and telecommunications.”
Prior to joining Infotility, Mr. McCray coordinated the market introduction of Accenture’s mobile work management software and services in the North American T&D marketplace. Prior to Accenture, Mr. McCray was COO for GreenBuildingStudio, where he led market introduction, alliances, sales, and marketing working with Autodesk, Graphisoft, McGraw Hill Construction, and a wide range of utilities offering new construction energy efficiency programs. While at Siebel, McCray managed the rapid growth of the business unit from start-up to global market leader. He coordinated 7 product releases, led Siebel's vertical alliance relationships with leading software vendors and systems integrators, and headed product marketing and sales support for the utility, oil, gas, and chemicals markets, globally. Prior to Siebel Systems, Jim held executive product management, engineering, and consulting positions at ICF Consulting, RLW Analytics, and Pacific Gas and Electric. Much of Jim's work was associated with the development of new products for energy companies, using metering and monitoring solutions, data visualization, mobile communications, engineering modeling, pricing, and load analysis software.
About GridAgents. GridAgents, an Infotility, Inc. company is the leading provider of real-time Collaborative Stream Processing (CSP) software that monitors and processes streaming data from any source or device, aggregating and coordinating information from multiple sources, assuring accessibility, usefulness, security, and survivability across any network. GridAgents’ software is applicable to any community of smart devices or sensors on the Pervasive Internet in the Sensor-Tagged world, where latency, immediacy, complex analytic/business rules, end-point processing, and security are critical issues, and the overheads of complex database management systems are of concern. GridAgents, with headquarters in Boulder, Colorado, is the major business unit of Infotility, Inc., a software and services company which was formed in 2000.
Website: www.gridagents.com, Contact info@infotility.com, Phone: 720-210-1984