Paul F. Koeppe, Director - Mr. Koeppe, age 54, is currently a director of Distributed Energy Systems Corp., a public company engaged in the business of creating and delivering products and services to the energy marketplace. He has served in this role since the acquisition of Northern Power Systems in December, 2003. He had been a director of Northern Power since 1998. Prior to his retirement in 2001, Mr. Koeppe was Executive Vice President of American Superconductor, an electricity solutions company, which had acquired Superconductivity, Inc. in 1997, a manufacturer of superconducting magnetic energy storage systems, which he founded and served as President. From 1993 to 1995, Mr. Koeppe was acting CEO and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of Best Power, Inc., a supplier of uninterruptible power supply packages. |