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| Luigi Ruggieri, CEO | | | Mr. Ruggieri has over 35 years experience as an executive in the project industry (power lines, heavy engineering, processing plants and infrastructure). Between 1993 and 1998, Mr. Ruggieri was the head of the Power Line Components business globally for ABB, overseeing manufacturing facilities in Europe (Germany, Austria, Italy, and Spain), Asia (India and China), Africa (South Africa, Zimbabwe and Nigeria), Latin America (Mexico, Brazil and Venezuela) and Australia. During his tenure, the Power Lines Division increased revenues from $354 million in 1993 to $667 million in 1998, increasing net earnings by 125% during the same period. Mr. Ruggieri's diverse business experience includes business development, mergers and acquisitions as well as divestitures. Mr. Ruggieri was educated and trained as an engineer and speaks Italian, French, German and Spanish. Mr. Ruggieri is also a Director of the Company. | | | | Matthew R. Brown, CFO | | | Mr. Brown has over 15 years of international finance experience in various industry sectors including senior management experience with a multi-national publicly-traded company (annual revenues of $2.3 billion). Mr. Brown's assignments included Executive Vice President, Divisional President, Divisional CFO, Corporate Assistant Controller, Divisional Controller and various expatriate roles. In Mr. Brown's financial posts, he has participated in raising more than $450 million of both debt and equity capital including a secondary public offering, public debt offerings and various bank debt financings. Before Mr. Brown's most recent corporate experience, he worked at Ernst & Young as an Audit Manager. Recently, Mr. Brown owned and successfully built an international services organization operating in nine countries, adding entrepreneurial experience to his resume. Mr. Brown is a CPA and CMA. He speaks Portuguese and Spanish. | | | | Claus Sutor, EVP, Marketing and Sales | | | Mr. Sutor has over 30 years experience selling to utilities, contractors and transmission companies in the United States and brings valuable relationships, credibility and experience to the SAE Towers team. Since 2000, Mr. Sutor has been the Director of Business Development for ABB's Power Lines Division in the United States, responsible for sales of lattice towers and poles into the United States and Canada. During 1999 and 2000, he was the General Manager of the towers factory of ABB Mexico. Prior to joining ABB in 1993, Mr. Sutor had spent the previous 15 years of his career involved in design of towers for high-voltage transmission lines throughout the Americas. Mr. Sutor is fluent in English, German and Spanish. | | | | Vagner Facin de Araujo, General Manager, Belo Horizonte, Brazil | | | Mr. Facin de Araujo is an electrical engineer with over 28 years of experience working in the electrical, oil and gas energy industries. He has managed various sectors of the production chain and he has led several key contractual negotiations for significant projects, successfully overseeing the legal and fiscal aspects of projects involving national, bi-national and multi-national enterprises, including Itaipu HVDC Furnas, CEP 213 and 230, and Furnas Itá Garabi I and II Endesa. He has handled many assignments for a variety of ABB business units in Guarulhos and Betim as well as for Quintas & Quintas Group, Elecnor SSo Paulo, and Bredero Shaw. | | | | Juan Carrillo, General Manager, Monterrey, Mexico | | | Mr. Carrillo is an industrial and mechanical engineer with over 25 years of professional experience. During his many years with ABB, he held a variety of key management roles in planning and production control, purchasing, logistics, project management and marketing sales. Over a period of 14 years at ABB, he was named General Manager of four different business areas and General Director of two different companies. He was instrumental in the merging of two manufacturing plants, the start-up of a new manufacturing line, the construction and launch of a new manufacturing facility for lattice steel towers and the start-up of a new business unit (steel poles for transmission lines). Mr. Carrillo also participated as a front line leader in AGG Group's divestment program. He has completed ABB's (Switzerland) Project Management and Business Unit training programs as well as IPADE's (Mexico) Top Management training program. | | | | Michael D. Miller, P.E., VP, Engineering and Sales | | | Mr. Miller has over 23 years of experience as an engineer in the design, analysis and testing of high voltage transmission structures. In his previous position as the Senior Structural Engineer with the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), Mr. Miller accumulated extensive experience in latticed steel towers, tubular steel poles, telecommunication structures and substation structures. In 2002, Mr. Miller was instrumental in the design, testing and supply of BPA's infrastructure expansion projects, resulting in 23 new latticed tower types within 23 months. Mr. Miller is a member of ASCE and actively serves on various commItáees for the transmission line industry. In September of 2011, the ASCE/SEI appointed Mr. Miller as the chairperson of the Technical Committee on Electrical Transmission Structures for the term of October 1, 2011 through September 30, 2014. Mr. Miller has a B.S. and M.S. from Portland State University and is a registered professional Civil Engineer in multiple states and provinces across North America. | | | | Miguel Mendieta, Manager, Engineering | | | Mr. Mendieta has over 16 years of experience as an engineer in the design, analysis and testing of EHV and UHV transmission structures. In his previous positions as Consulting Engineer for ABB’s Power Line Division in the United States and Chief Engineer for ABB’s Tower Plant in Monterrey, Mexico, Mr. Mendieta built up extensive expertise in the design of steel lattice towers, tubular steel poles and overhead power lines. Mr. Mendieta has been instrumental in the design and full-scale testing of several major tower supply projects in North America. Mr. Mendieta holds a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. degree from National Autonomous University of Mexico, and he is a member of the ASCE. |
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