SmartSynch Hires Tom Van Denover as Senior Vice President of Sales

JACKSON, Miss. -- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- SmartSynch announced today the hiring of Tom Van Denover as Senior Vice President of Sales. He will lead the company’s global sales efforts.

Van Denover brings to the company more than 28 years of experience leading sales teams and directly selling to utilities worldwide His successful career includes executive positions with Tropos Networks, Inc., where he served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales, and Comverge, Inc., where he served as Senior Vice President of Utilities Sales. Van Denover also held executive sales positions with KEMA and Convergent Group selling utility consulting and systems integration services to investor-owned and municipally-owned utilities throughout North America.

“Tom brings a wealth of experience selling smart grid solutions and services to the worldwide utility industry,” said SmartSynch CEO Stephen Johnston. “We will leverage his background, diverse expertise and demonstrated leadership capabilities to capitalize on growing market awareness that it is more efficient and less expensive to utilize existing cellular networks for smart grid communications.”

About SmartSynch

SmartSynch is a company that creates smart grids for the utility industry. Since 2000, we have been the only provider of open standards, IP-to-the-endpoint smart grid solutions that utilize a cellular network as the communications backbone. Our clean-tech innovations in the two-way delivery of real-time energy usage data over cellular networks, in lieu of proprietary networks, have to-date simplified deployments for 130 major North American utilities, while enabling their clean-energy initiatives and delivering greater Returns on Resources.

As a smart grid infrastructure company, SmartSynch’s IP-based solutions are capable of delivering grid intelligence to and from any device. Our products and services include SmartMeters™ and SmartBoxes™ that immediately IP-enable the grid, software solutions, and network management services for utilities and their customers, as well as clean-tech companies in need of remote communications and control functionality for products ranging from solar panels to plug-in hybrid vehicles.

For more information, visit www.smartsynch.com and follow SmartSynch on Twitter at www.twitter.com/smartsynch.