On-Ramp Wireless Welcomes Distinguished Strategic Advisory Board Members
San Diego, Calif. – September 7, 2010 – On-Ramp Wireless today announced the addition of John E. Bryson and Thomas R. McDaniel to its Advisory Board. Utility industry leaders and technology pioneers in their own rights, Mr. Bryson and Mr. McDaniel will offer their industry insights as On-Ramp continues to bring a new level of automation and integration to the Smart Grid with its Ultra-Link Processing™ Wireless Networking System.
Mr. Bryson is a Senior Advisor at KKR and a Board Member at Boeing Company, The Walt Disney Company, and CODA Automotive. He brings extensive utility industry experience to On-Ramp from his long career at Edison International, the parent company of Southern California Edison, where he served as Chairman, President and CEO, and the Edison Mission Group of companies, a global developer of generating plants and providers of capital for power and infrastructure projects. Mr. Bryson is also co-founder of the NRDC and as such will provide valuable guidance on On-Ramp's efforts in the clean tech and environmental space.
Electric power industry veteran Mr. McDaniel recently retired from Edison International after 37 years, most recently as executive vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer. Mr. McDaniel was also Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Edison Mission Energy, an independent power company which developed and owned generating plants both domestically and internationally, as we'll as Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Edison Capital, a provider of capital and financial services supporting the growth of energy and infrastructure projects, products and services, Mr. McDaniel currently serves on the board of directors of Sun Power Corporation.
“On-Ramp represents one of those rare opportunities where a brilliant technological innovation meets an almost unlimited market potential,” said Mr. Bryson. “I am excited to be a part of the On-Ramp team and offer my guidance wherever applicable.”
“Mr. Bryson and Mr. McDaniel clearly bring tremendous backgrounds and networks to our company, and as On-Ramp continues to apply its wireless technology to the utility and energy efficiency market, we couldn’t ask for better advisors,” said Joaquin Silva, President and CEO of On-Ramp. “Mr. Bryson and Mr. McDaniel will serve as invaluable resources to our organization as we bring a new level of automation to the grid.”
About On-Ramp Wireless
On-Ramp Wireless has developed the first wireless system purpose-built to efficiently connect billions of hard-to-reach devices in metro scale and other challenging environments. On-Ramp’s field-proven Ultra-Link Processing™ system enables low-power monitoring and control applications within Smart Grid, industrial sensing, and location tracking. Operating in un-licensed spectrum, our signal processing innovation finds weak signals even in high noise environments, yielding extreme coverage, immunity to high interference, and significantly lowers cost. For more information, visit www.onrampwireless.com.
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