PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEDate: February 2, 2007
Subject: Jim Maskrey joins Sopogy as Vice President of Business Development
Contact: Darren T. Kimura, President and CEO
Tel: (808) 216-3478
email: dkimura@sopogy.com
Jim Maskrey Joins Sopogy as Vice President of Business Development
Honolulu, HI - Sopogy, Inc. announced today that Jim Maskrey has joined the company as its Vice President of Business Development. Mr. Maskrey has more than 25 years of experience in solar and energy technologies, and was most recently the manager of Hawaiian Electric Company’s Demand Side Management program for commercial and industrial customers. In this role he was responsible for the issuance of energy efficiency rebate incentives for customers who implemented efficient technologies. Prior to Hawaiian Electric he was the business development manager of DMC a national energy management company. He began his career at the Solar Energy Research Institute which is now known as the National Renewable Energy Laboratories. Mr. Maskrey is active in Hawaii’s energy community as the President of Rebuild Hawaii Consortium, Chair of the Environmental Committee of the Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii and is a member of the Hawaii Electricity Reliability Advisory Committee. He holds a Masters of Environmental Planning degree from Arizona State University, his Masters in Business Administration from the University of Hawaii and a Bachelors of Arts from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
About Sopogy, Inc.
Sopogy, Inc. (www.sopogy.com) is a Hawaii based solar technology company dedicated to enabling the renewable energy economy by dramatically increasing energy production through widespread use of its Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) technologies. Sopogy offers a cost-effective method for producing electricity and by-products that include steam, desalination, hydrogen, absorption cooling and hot water heating.
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For additional information about Sopogy, Inc., please contact Darren Kimura, President & CEO at (808) 216-3478 .