About Us

Our software platform delivers real-time energy data and control to Energy Management, Demand Response and other Cloud-Based solutions. The SmartEdge M2M Platform™ is a fully customizable embedded Java solution to meet all of your edge connectivity requirements for a truly Smart Grid.

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Management Team                  Board of Directors                  Investors                  Advisory Board

Product

SmartEdge M2M Platform™

Management Team

Peter McCabe, CEO, Co-Founder

Former mergers & acquisitions and securities lawyer for Latham & Watkins; venture capital, public offerings and mergers with total negotiated deal value in excess of $6 billion; accountant and technology executive. His clients included Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), Chevron, Safeway, and Kendall-Jackson. Peter recieved a JD from U.C. Berkeley, Boalt Hall, and a BS in Finance from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, California.

John Lin, Ph.D., CTO, Co-Founder

12 years experience in the wireless protocol and embedded device industry covering US and Japan. ZigBee and Bluetooth expert, technical editor to ZigBee specifications and NIST SGIP TCC IPRM document. Facilitated the start of ZigBee Smart Energy interoperability program, and supported key utilities in their smart energy initiatives in both California and in Texas. Previous head of TUV Rheinland wireless development. Current OpenADR Alliance Japan Ambassador. John received a PhD in Physics from Osaka University, Japan, an MA in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin, and a BA in Physics from Cornell University.

Matthew Dowling, EVP Sales & Business Development

25 years experience in Sales, Marketing and Business Development. Former CTO of Pacific Bell Communications (now AT&T). Held senior management roles at HP, Sybase, Informatica and Syncsort. BS in Mathematics and Computer Science, California State University, Hayward.

Ken Elmer, CFO

30 years experience in senior finance roles including CFO for Simple Mobile and mBlox. Held similar roles in Tiburon and several Pacific Telesis Group entities. BBA in Accounting and Economics, University of North Texas.

Colin Mason, VP Business Dev., Japan & APAC

Nearly thirty years experience in the semiconductor, electronics, wireless, embedded systems and software industries in Europe, Japan and APAC in engineering, marketing , sales and management roles for both blue chip and start-up companies in Europe, Japan and APAC. Successful launch/operation of new businesses in Japan and APAC . Degree in Engineering Science from the University of Edinburgh and holder of three recognised patents.

Robert Fries, Vice President, Engineering

Over 25 years developing commercial software; background in operating systems and Unix kernel engineering for companies such as Locus Computing Corporation, Veritas Software, Silicon Graphics, Sun Microsystems and IBM. Founding member and Chief Software Architect for Pario Software, a startup which developed Java-based RADIUS authentication software and was later acquired by Lucent Technologies. Engineering manager of the RADIUS Product Group at Lucent Technologies.

Advisory Board

Don Sturek, CTO and Co-founder, Grid2Home

Co-founder and CTO of Grid2Home with more than 20 years experience in the software design of IP, mesh networking and wireless protocols and products. He has been an active member IEEE, ZigBee, Blue tooth and ISA, holding key chair positions. He is actively involved in ZigBee in defining the next generation standards for Smart Energy. Don formally co-founded Figure 8 Wireless, which developed the original ZigBee stack and was acquired by Chipcon and then Texas Instruments.

Michael Thomas, CEO & President, Founder, Active Worldwide

Michael is a strategic alliance, channel sales and business development leader with a proven track record of leading global organizations to build high impact partnerships. His primary objective in the Advisory Board role at Wireless Glue Network is to actively in develop key partnerships to increase technology integration, global joint solution development, delivery and go-to-market to greatly enhance our customer value and delivery capabilities. In previous roles, Michael was VP Global Partnerships at Polycom (2010 -2011), Director Strategic Alliance and Partnering organization at Cisco Inc. (1996-2010) and Director of OEM sales at Alcatel-TITN Inc. (1985-1995). At Cisco, he developed and executed Cisco's two largest Strategic Alliance partners, IBM (1996-2001) and HP (2002-2009).

Matthew Jacobsen, Ph.D. Candidate at UC San Diego

Pursuing a degree in artificial intelligence. He currently holds a BS degree from UC Berkeley and a MS degree from UC San Diego. Recent internship positions at Microsoft Research and Google X have explored large-scale distributed systems and machine learning problems. Prior to his Ph.D. work, Matthew worked in the technology sector of the San Francisco Bay Area for 8 years. He has worked as an enterprise software engineer, technical architect, and consultant at large corporations and startups.

Jonathan Skelding, Global Solutions Director, ServiceMax

Jonathan Skelding has been in Enterprise Software for over 20 years with roles in engineering, product management, sales, and professional services working predominantly with early to middle stage startups, he also spent several years at Oracle where he was responsible for the global expansion of North American Consulting projects in Europe, Australia, and Asia. Jonathan’s focus for many years was network security, identity and access management and he owned his own consulting firm for a number of years. Recently Jonathan shifted focus to energy management and analysis, and resource optimization running the Global Services Organization for Hara before joining WirelessGlue. Jonathan’s focus is the capture of building performance data and the modeling and analysis in order to drive a pre-emptive efficiency model.

Andrew Green, Energy Consultant

President of his own energy advisory firm, Mr. Green has over 25 years' experience and expertise in the energy industry with a full range of knowledge in energy supply and demand management. Mr. Green designs energy strategies for commercial, utility, and government markets and has successfully designed, developed and implemented efficiency, renewable, on-site power and demand response solutions. He has held management positions with Duke Energy, Pacific Gas & Electric, Navigant Consulting, Aeris Communications and numerous US Dept. of Energy funded programs. Mr. Green was awarded "National Energy Manager of the Year, 2006" by the Association of Energy Engineers and the "Early Adopter Innovator Award, 2007" - for Automated Critical Peak Pricing and Demand Response.

Investors

Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ)

To date, INCJ has invested approximately ¥600 billion (appoximately US$ 6 billion) in a total of 34 projects and is currently focused on a broad range of areas from green energy, electronics, IT and biotechnology to infrastructure-related sectors such as water supply. INCJ maintains a hands-on approach to investment, engaging in the business development of cutting-edge core technologies through intellectual property funds, expansion of venture companies and aggressive overseas development through initiatives such as restructuring and mergers of tech businesses and acquisitions of foreign companies. For more information, visit www.incj.co.jp

Clean Pacific Ventures Management LLC

Based in San Francisco, Clean Pacific Ventures Management is an independent venture capital company, which primarily invests in early-stage clean technology companies. For more information, visit www.cleanpacific.com

Toko Electric Corporation

TOKO ELECTRIC CORPORATION (Public, TYO: 6921) is a Japan-based Tokyo Electric company (TEPCO) mainly engaged in the manufacture and sale of electric meters and related infrastructure products. For more information, visit www.tokodenki.co.jp

Hosiden Corporation

Manufacturing and selling of electronic and information & communications equipment. For more information, visit www.hosiden.co.jp

Board of Directors

Peter McCabe, Director

CEO, Co-Founder, Wireless Glue Networks, Inc.
Former mergers & acquisitions and securities lawyer for Latham & Watkins; venture capital, public offerings and mergers with total negotiated deal value in excess of $6 billion; accountant and technology executive. His clients included Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), Chevron, Safeway, and Kendall-Jackson. Peter recieved a JD from U.C. Berkeley, Boalt Hall, and a BS in Finance from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, California.

John Lin, Ph.D., Director

CTO, Co-Founder, Wireless Glue Networks, Inc.
12 years experience in the wireless protocol and embedded device industry covering US and Japan. ZigBee and Bluetooth expert, technical editor to ZigBee specifications and NIST SGIP TCC IPRM document. Facilitated the start of ZigBee Smart Energy interoperability program, and supported key utilities in their smart energy initiatives in both California and in Texas. Previous head of TUV Rheinland wireless development. Current OpenADR Alliance Japan Ambassador. John received a PhD in Physics from Osaka University, Japan, an MA in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin, and a BA in Physics from Cornell University.

Jun Hosoya, Director

Managing Director, Innovation Network Corporation of Japan
Formerly a founding partner of Apax Globis Partners & Co. (now Globis Capital Partners), one of Japan's leading venture capital firms. In addition to Wireless Glue, he currently serves as a director of INCJ portfolio companies Miselu, Inc., Sphelar Power Corporation, and CerebrEX, Inc. He received a BA in Sociology with a minor in International Economics from Rikkyo University, Tokyo, and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

David Herron, Director

General Partner, Clean Pacific Ventures
Formerly a Vice President and group manager for Robertson Stephens' Energy Technology investment banking practice, which focused on companies involved in distributed generation, power quality and reliability, and advanced materials. Prior to that, he was a Senior Vice President at Van Kasper & Co. (now Wells Fargo Securities), where he worked on numerous transactions for environmental services and technology companies serving the solid, liquid, hazardous and radioactive waste markets. Dave currently sits on the board of portfolio company SunLink. Dave received a BA in English from U.C. Berkeley and an MBA from the University of Michigan.

Michael Coke, Director

President & CFO, Terreno Realty Corporation
Co-founder of Terreno Realty Corporation, a San Francisco based publicly traded real estate investment trust (NYSE: TRNO). Mike was also the CFO and Executive Vice President of AMB Property Corporation now Prologis, Inc. (NYSE:PLD). He was a member of the Investment Committee at AMB and was responsible for capital markets, accounting, tax, information systems, dispositions, valuations, risk management and financial planning groups totaling more than 130 officers and associates in five countries. Mike is a Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of DuPont Fabros Technology, Inc. (NYSE: DFT), a leading owner, developer, operator and manager of wholesale data centers headquartered in Washington, D.C.

News

Jobs

Partners

Wireless Glue seeks collaborative and rewarding relationships with companies that are committed to developing and delivering solutions to help their customers solve their most complex Machine-to-Machince (M2M) communication challenges.

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Policy Effective: January 1, 2013

News

Wireless Glue Networks, Inc. Secures $4.5 Million in Funding From Investors in Japan and the US

February 21, 2013

LAFAYETTE, Calif., Feb. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Wireless Glue Networks, Inc. announced today it closed a Series B round of $ 4.5 million. Investors include Japanese firms, Innovation Network Corporation of Japan, Toko Electric Corporation, Hosiden Corporation, and US venture capital firm, Clean Pacific Ventures.

Increased limitations in electricity supply along with pressures to manage capital and operational spending have resulted in accelerated efforts to optimize existing energy resources by applying information and communications technology to the existing electrical distribution system, through demand response (DR) and energy management systems. The acceleration of these efforts has been particularly acute in Japan following the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 2011 and the resulting decrease in nuclear generation capacity.

However, there is a wide range of different standards and communications systems used around the world to control ventilation and lighting in factories, commercial buildings, and homes.

Wireless Glue's SmartEdge M2M software platform allows diverse communication systems and standards to communicate and cross-connect with each other on a single platform.

"Out of necessity, Japan is poised to be a leader in the world energy market," said Peter McCabe, President and CEO, Wireless Glue Networks. "Our SmartEdge M2M platform provides real-time control and energy data between buildings and the cloud for aggregated energy management and DR applications that is scalable and cost-effective because it utilizes existing infrastructure."

"Wireless Glue's platform differs from anything else we have seen and its position in Japan provides a significant advantage to deployment in a rapidly advancing market," said Sean Schickedanz, General Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Clean Pacific Ventures.

About Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ)

The INCJ was established in July 2009 as a public-private partnership that provides financial, technological and management support for next-generation businesses. The INCJ specifically supports those projects that combine technologies and varied expertise across industries and materialize open innovation. For more information, visit www.incj.co.jp/english/

About Toko Electric Corporation

TOKO ELECTRIC CORPORATION (Public, TYO: 6921) is a Japan-based Tokyo Electric company (TEPCO) mainly engaged in the manufacture and sale of electric meters and related infrastructure products. For more information, visit www.tokodenki.co.jp

About Hosiden Corporation

Manufacturing and selling of electronic and information & communications equipment. For more information, visit www.hosiden.co.jp

About Clean Pacific Ventures Management LLC

Based in San Francisco, Clean Pacific Ventures Management is an independent venture capital company, which primarily invests in early-stage clean technology companies. For more information, visit www.cleanpacific.com

About Wireless Glue Networks, Inc.

Wireless Glue is a United States-based company with offices in Japan that delivers software and hardware solutions that capture and deliver energy data in real-time for the Commercial and Industrial market. For more information, visit www.wirelessglue.com

SOURCE Wireless Glue Networks, Inc.

For further information: Matt Dowling, +1-925-323-7012, mdowling@wirelessglue.com

News

UC Davis Plug-In Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Research Center selects Wireless Glue Networks for V2G & B2G Cost and Benefits Study

August 2, 2012

Compare Cost and Benefits of Battery-to-Grid and Vehicle-to-Grid Systems

Today UC Davis Plug-In Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Research Center selected Wireless Glue Networks to produce a study that will measure, model and compare Vehicle–to-Grid (V2G) systems and battery-to-grid (B2G) systems such as Home Energy Storage Appliances and other 2nd-life battery storage devices. This study will provide important insight into potential use/reuse strategies for V2G & B2G battery storage technology as ancillary services in the power grid.

“We are excited to be selected to explore real world deployment scenarios for V2G & B2G,” said Dr. John Lin, Co-Founder and CTO of Wireless Glue Networks. “We believe an analysis of the potential combination of communication technology with realistic 2nd life battery scenarios is crucial to understanding whether and how the expanding plug-in hybrid and electric vehicle markets can be economically leveraged to address the growing need for energy storage.”

UC Davis Plug-In Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Research Center Press Release HERE

For more information, visit www.wirelessglue.com or contact Matt Dowling, +1-925-323-7012, mdowling@wirelessglue.com

News

OpenADR Alliance Announces Strong Membership Growth and Successful Compliance Testing

May 15, 2012

Successful Testing Event Prepares First Products for Market Adoption of This Important Smart Grid Standard

MORGAN HILL, Calif., May 15, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The OpenADR Alliance, a nonprofit corporation created to foster the development, adoption and compliance of a Smart Grid standard known as Open Automated Demand Response (OpenADR), today announced the addition of several industry-leading members, including AutoGrid Systems and EnerNOC at the Sponsor level; Alstom Grid, Cisco, Comverge, REGEN Energy, Wireless Glue, Universal Devices and Ventyx; an ABB Company at the Contributor level; Duke Energy, Hawaiian Electric Company, Institute for Information Industry and Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute as Adopters. With the addition of these companies and 27 individual members, the alliance's total membership has reached 71 members with representatives from utilities, independent system operators (ISOs), regulators and controls suppliers.

The strong momentum of the OpenADR Alliance is highlighted by its 44 percent growth in membership since December of last year, as well as the successful testing of OpenADR2.0a-compliant products. This progress further validates the OpenADR standard, and increases its ability to lower the cost, improve the reliability and accelerate the speed of automated demand response implementations for the smart grid.

"Industry momentum is clearly growing globally for standards-based DR. The addition of our new members and our rapidly-growing membership base reinforces the importance policy makers, utilities and equipment manufacturers place on interoperable energy management systems," said Barry Haaser, managing director of OpenADR Alliance. "The imminent release of the OpenADR 2.0a specification, coupled with availability of our new test tool will allow us to support the rapid deployment of OpenADR certified devices this summer."

"Open standards that define a crisp program for compliance are critical to interoperable systems which in turn enable Demand Response to achieve a mainstream market," said Amit Narayan, president and CEO at AutoGrid Systems. "The OpenADR Alliance has energized an ecosystem that will accelerate the cost-effective scaling of Demand Response in the market."

"A standards-based infrastructure is a key step in improving ease-of-participation for energy users who want to be more engaged in active energy management," said David Hardin, senior director of Smart Grid standards at EnerNOC, Inc. "OpenADR 2.0 represents an important development in standardizing how systems interact with each other across the grid, and this improved interoperability will facilitate quicker, more seamless, and more efficient connections between participants in demand response."

About the OpenADR Alliance

The OpenADR Alliance fosters the development, adoption, and compliance of the Open Automated Demand Response (OpenADR) standard through collaboration, education, training, testing, and certification. The OpenADR Alliance works with related organizations such as the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel, Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), North American Energy Standards Board (NAESB), Utilities Communications Architecture International User's Group (UCAIug), Wi-Fi Alliance™, ZigBee Alliance™ and others as appropriate.

The OpenADR Alliance is open to all interested stakeholders interested in accelerating the adoption of the OpenADR standard for price- and reliability-based demand response. More information can be obtained at www.openadr.org

Contact: Barry Haaser, Managing Director, OpenADR Alliance, 408-310-9213, barry@openadr.org

For further information: Matt Dowling, +1-925-323-7012, mdowling@wirelessglue.com

Employee Benefits

Medical and Dental Insurance

Full-time employees are eligible for Wireless Glue's group medical and dental insurance. Coverage goes into effect on the first day of the month following your hire date.

401(k)

Full-time employees are eligible for Wireless Glue's 401(k) plan. Employees over 21 years of age are eligible to participate the first day of the month following your hire date.

Paid Time Off

Starting on their date of hire, employees begin to accrue Paid Time Off (PTO) – a combination of vacation time and sick time – into a single bank.

Disability Insurance

Wireless Glue offers employees short– and long–term disability insurance at no cost to them.

Jobs

M2M Embedded Java Engineer

Job Description

The successful candidate will be part of the core engineering team to work on our multi-protocol M2M energy management platform. Our strategic partners include Tokyo Electric family of companies, and we are developing demand side solutions to address the energy crisis in Japan and around the world.

Our mission is to solve one of greatest barriers to the deployment of alternative energy resources such as batteries, wind, and solar into the smart grid: lack of fine-grained, real-time grid control. Help us usher in a new era of renewables and demand side management for energy independence. This is your chance to make a difference!

This position reports to the VP of Engineering.

**Domestic US Candidates Only**

Desired Skills & Experience Description

Significant application development experience in a JVM based language, including a thorough knowledge of core Java APIs and server side technologies.

Thorough familiarity with both RESTful and traditional web service paradigms, and of various options for deploying and managing such applications.

Thorough familiarity with runtime component frameworks such as Spring and OSGi, and with the use of dependency injection.

Deep understanding of underlying computer hardware and design principles. This is not just an application programming job. Although we use the JVM for a significant amount of our software, this position involves the integration of that software with a variety of OS and communications technologies. A broad understanding of underlying platforms, particularly Linux, and of network protocols is an absolute requirement. The ideal candidate would have experience developing systems or embedded software in a non-JVM language.

Desirable

Experience with energy management, including OpenADR, AMI, Zigbee SE, etc.
Proficiency with web-based user interface design.
Second language a plus (particularly Japanese).

Please send your resume to hr@wirelessglue.com

Jobs

UI/UX Lead Engineer

Job Description

New client side software technologies are creating possibilities for rich user interfaces for embedded platforms. Entirely new class of M2M devices are emerging, all requiring advanced user interfaces through direct communications, or proxy communications via application level gateways. The successful candidate will be working to define user interfaces for whole class of embedded devices as well as back office services. How do we interact with the Internet of Things?

That's your job!

Wireless Glue Networks is looking for a web UI/UX developer to create the technologies and define the user interactions through our energy management platform. This position requires a deep understanding of modern web development and design, with an emphasis on maximizing the capabilities of modern browsers (e.g. jQuery, RESTful web architecture, HTML5, etc). Strong UI and graphic design skills are a must. Experience with mobile technologies such as PhoneGap would be a big plus, as would specific experience with iOS or Android.

**Domestic US Candidates Only**

Desired Skills & Experience Description

Ability to turn end user requirements into high quality UI and UX code
Copious experience implementing UI designs

Please send your resume to hr@wirelessglue.com