Board of Directors
Gary Simon, President and CEO
Gary Simon has a broad-ranging 33-year career that includes Fortune 500 companies, small start-up businesses, and consulting to major energy companies.
Prior to Acumentrics, Gary was the Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Business Development at Northeast Utilities, where he had responsibility for corporate R&D as well as for business planning and strategic M&A transactions. In that position, Gary had a major role in over $2.5 billion of transactions, was the head of corporate venture investing, and was a member of the senior management committee. He was responsible for analysis of markets, competitors, new business ventures, acquisition targets and business unit performance. Previously, Gary was Senior Director and head of the Global Power Practice for Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) for nine years, where he provided advice on the future directions of the industry and the sources of strategic advantage, including the emergence of new technologies. Earlier, Gary was Vice President of sales and marketing for El Paso Natural Gas Company. Gary also served four years as the head of forecasting and planning for the California Energy Commission and five years as senior consultant to the energy committees of the California State Assembly. Gary has a master’s degree from the University of California, Davis, and a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University.
Gary also serves as President of Sigma Energy Group, a clean technology investment and advisory firm. He is a board member of Capstone Turbine, SmartPower, and Rentricity, as well as the Sacramento Area Regional Technology Alliance, and the McCllellan Technology Incubator.
James Rosenfield, Non-Executive Chairman
James Rosenfield is Co-Founder and Senior Advisor of IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates (IHS CERA), a leading international energy research and advisory firm known for independent insight into the energy future. For over two decades Mr. Rosenfield helped drive IHS CERA's growth, including strategy, new products, sales and marketing, business development and operations. He is a Senior Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government; and is a Corporation Member of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
James Wilson, Vice Chairman
Mr. Wilson has been a managing director of Boston Ventures since its formation in 1983. Prior to that, he was a vice president of First Venture Capital Corporation, a subsidiary of Bank of Boston Corporation, and had an active role in initiating, structuring and monitoring First Ventures’ 1982/83 investments and in realizing prior investments. Jamie received his M.A. degree from Cambridge University, England in 1974.
John Humphrey
John is the Chairman and Principal of Humphrey Enterprises, LLC. He is also the President of Humphrey Companies, a supplier to the automotive and heavy-duty vehicle markets. The companies include Hadley, Corvac Composites, and Eleison Composites. Prior to forming Humphrey Enterprises in 2002, he was Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of The Forum Corporation which helped clients develop learning strategies and solutions and deploy their strategies. Forum pioneered the concept of outsourcing training organizations and managed the training organizations for several companies including DuPont, Vanguard, Mellon, and KPMG Canada. Over a 29-year period, Forum achieved compound annual growth in revenue and shareholder value of 23 % and 36 % respectively.
John Humphrey served as the first Chair of the Board of Governors of the American Society of Training and Development and was the 1998 Chair of ASTD's Board of Directors. In 1992, he received the Society's highest award, the Gordon M. Bliss Award. John also served as founding President of the Instructional Systems Association, a trade association of firms providing instructional systems.
In 1984, John and his brother, Jim Humphrey, acquired Nelson Metal Products, an automotive supplier of aluminum die-castings. Over a 15-year period, Nelson Metal achieved compound annual growth in revenue and shareholder value of 17 % and 41 % respectively, becoming a three-time General Motors Supplier of the Year.
Besides serving on the Board of Acumentrics and other portfolio companies, John serves some not-for-profit organizations. He is Chair Emeritus of the Boston Ballet, Co-Chair of the Advisory Board of the Arts in Education Program of Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, Trustee of Skidmore College, Trustee of Brimmer and May School, and a member of the Visiting Committee and the Dean's Council of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
John graduated from Iowa State University with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and received his MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.
Rick Pierro
Rick Pierro is co-founder and owner of Superior Controls, a leading automation engineering company. He has twenty-three years of control systems experience.
Mr. Pierro received a BA in Chemistry from Boston University in 1981, and an MS in Chemical Engineering from University of Massachusetts Lowell in 1983. His graduate level thesis involved testing advanced PID tuning techniques for process control applications. While developing his thesis during those two years, he also taught several process control lab courses and later attended business courses at Harvard Business School.
For three years after graduating, Mr. Pierro worked as an application engineer at a systems integrator designing and implementing PLC based control systems for the chemical and food and beverage industries. Over the next eight years, he advanced through project engineering, sales, and sales management, before co-founding Superior Controls in 1993.
Besides serving on the Board for Acumentrics, he serves on the Board of E-Trolz, a leading provider of technology for electrophysiological medical devices. He also is on the Board of Directors and is currently Vice President of ISPE-Boston; he is a Trustee of the New Hampshire High Tech Council; and he is Chairman of the Board of Advisors to the UMass Lowell Chemical Engineering Department. Mr. Pierro is also a recipient of the "Distinguished Engineering Award" from the Francis College of Engineering at UMass-Lowell.
George Sakellaris
Mr. Sakellaris is President and CEO of Ameresco, an independent energy solutions company. Sakellaris had a vision of creating an energy company that had the skills, capabilities and foresight to create energy solutions that went beyond just conservation and addressed a customer’s entire energy stream. As a result he founded Ameresco in April 2000, built on the principals of integrity, innovation and flexibility. Prior to founding Ameresco, Mr. Sakellaris became a leader in the energy industry by founding two other highly regarded energy conservation companies. Mr. Sakellaris was also appointed to be a Senior Vice President of a Fortune 500 Energy Company. Mr. Sakellaris served as a founding member of the National Association of Energy Service Companies. Mr. Sakellaris is a former President of NAESCO and is still an active member today.
Douglas Foy
Douglas Foy is the President of DIF Enterprises, a company devoted to sustainable business practices and the development of social enterprises. Prior to founding DIF Enterprises in 2006, Mr. Foy served as the first Secretary of Commonwealth Development in the administration of Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. In leading this "super-Secretariat", Mr. Foy oversaw the agencies of Transportation, Housing, Environment, and Energy, with combined annual capital budgets of $5 billion, operating budgets of $500 million, and a total workforce of more than 11,000. Before his service in the Romney administration, Mr. Foy served for 25 years as the President of the Conservation Law Foundation, New England's premier environmental advocacy organization. Among other awards, Mr. Foy has received the President's Environmental and Conservation Challenge Award, the country's highest conservation award, and the Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service from the Woodrow Wilson Center, the national memorial to President Wilson. Mr. Foy, a member of the 1968 USA Olympic Rowing Team and the 1969 USA National Rowing Team, graduated from Princeton University as a University Scholar in engineering and physics, attended Cambridge University in England as a Churchill Scholar in geophysics, and graduated from Harvard Law School.
P. X. Kelley, Director
General Paul X. Kelley served as the 28th Commandant of the Marine Corps and was a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1983 to 1987. He served three US Presidents in a number of capacities. During his 37-year military career, he commanded Marine Corps organizations at every echelon including command of an infantry battalion and infantry regiment in combat and served tours with the Army, Navy, Air Force and British Royal Marines. In 1979, he was appointed by the President as the first Commander of the Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force, renamed the United States Central Command (USCENTCOM) in 1981. In 1983, he became the 28th Commandant of the Marine Corps. After his retirement in 1987, he was appointed Chairman of the American Battle Monuments Commission and served in that capacity from 1989 to 1994 and from 2001 to 2005.
General Kelley is the recipient of numerous medals, decorations and honors including the Defense Distinguished Service Medal; the Navy Distinguished Service Medal; the Army Distinguished Service Medal; the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal; the Silver Star Medal, three awards of the Legion of Merit (Combat); `and two awards of the Bronze Star (Combat) Medal.
He is a founding member and co-chair of the Energy Security Leadership Council, a not-for-profit organization composed of 16 business and national security leaders committed to improving U.S. energy security (SAFE).
In the private sector, he has served on ten New York Stock Exchange boards, and twelve other private corporate boards. Currently, General Kelley is on the Board of Advisors for J.F. Lehman and Company, and serves as a Director with London Life Reinsurance Company; Saul Centers, Inc.; OAO Technology Solutions, Inc.; and The Non-Proliferation Trust. He is a member of The Advisory Board of Governors for the Partnership for Public Service, The Advisory Board of The First Jobs Institute, Beta Gamma Sigma, The Alfalfa Club, and The Council on Foreign Relations.
He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics from Villanova University, is a Distinguished Graduate of the Air War College, and has received honorary doctoral degrees from Villanova University, Norwich University, Webster University, Jacksonville University, The United States Sorts Academy, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
