Management

Mr. Scampini was appointed Executive Vice President – Operations in February 2010 and Chief Financial Officer in January 2008. From 1994 to June 2007, he was Executive Vice President, CFO and a Director of MGS Manufacturing Group. In addition in 1995, Mr. Scampini consulted with ZBB in the purchase of the assets of Johnson Control Zinc Bromide Flow battery technology, assisted with strategic planning and represented the company and its US predecessor company for the previous thirteen years. Mr. Scampini holds a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting from Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and is a Certified Public Accountant. He has previously worked with Price Waterhouse and BDO Seidman. Mr. Scampini headed BDO Seidman’s Corporate Finance practice.

Kevin Dennis was appointed Vice President of Marketing and Sales in January 2008 and most recently promoted to include the position of Vice President of Engineering and Product Development. Mr. Dennis has extensive expertise in the utility and renewable energy markets worldwide having held various senior management roles with ABB, most recently as Director, Advanced Power Electronics – North America. Kevin also spent four years as both the sales and engineering manager for Omnion Power Engineering Corporation, a manufacturer of power electronics systems for advanced energy systems. His early career also includes six years as a design engineer with American Electric Power Service Corporation (AEP) in Columbus, Ohio. He holds a Bachelors of Science, Electrical Engineering from Michigan Technological University, is a registered professional engineer in the States of Wisconsin and California and is a member of the IEEE (Power Electronics Group). He is a past member of National Electrical Testing Association (NETA), participated as an industry representative in the working group for the development of Underwriters Laboratory standard, UL 741, for utility grid connected power converters. He also participates in various renewable energy and energy storage organizations.

Mr. Jonshagen has been managing our Australian research and development since 1992, and was part of the Australian research and development team since 1986. Mr. Jonshagen is a co-developer of some of our intellectual property. Prior to joining the Company in 1986, Mr. Jonshagen gained extensive experience as a design engineer for wind turbine generators, plate heat exchangers and various valve products. Mr. Jonshagen holds a Masters of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering which he received in 1979 from Lund University of Technology, Sweden, and a Masters of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering Materials Science which he received in 1980 from the University of Hawaii, Honolulu.

Mr. Lex joined Johnson Controls Battery Group in 1990 and has been our senior systems engineer since we acquired this division from Johnson Controls in 1994. He has coordinated extensive laboratory testing and qualification of zinc-bromine batteries and electrochemical capacitors. He has organized the research in materials development and conducted electrochemical testing of battery components, developed electrode and separator materials and processing techniques that improved the performance and life expectancy of the batteries. He has been the principal US research and development scientist for the Company since 1994 and coordinates the entire group’s materials research activities. He is a co-developer of the Company’s US intellectual property. Mr. Lex holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from The University of Wisconsin-Madison obtained in 1984 and Master of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from The University of Connecticut, Storrs obtained in 1988.