Philip G. Hunt

Phil Hunt serves as Powergrid Communication's Technology Advisor. Phil brings considerable experience and talents to Powergrid in this position, combining international marketing, technology and management skills.

Prior to joining Powergrid Communications, he served as Chairman and CEO of Amperion Inc. a leading provider of BPL products and solutions. He led the company formation, strategic and technical direction, and subsequent capitalization through the Redleaf Group, American Electric Power Communications and Cisco Systems. Phil expanded Amperion into several international markets by guiding regulatory, development and market adaptations. Concentrating first on Europe, Mr. Hunt developed sales in Spain, the UK, Norway, Germany, Switzerland and France. Phil also negotiated BPL agreements in Africa, Australia, the Balkans, China, Indonesia, and Vietnam.

Prior to Amperion, Phil was a senior staff member of a development and partnering group in Cisco's Chief Strategy Office organization where he focused on Utilities, Fiber, Powerline Carrier (now BPL) and eCommerce infrastructure. He also held positions as VP of Engineering at both Nashoba Networks (acquired by Cisco in 1996) and Xedia Corp (acquired by Lucent).

Mr. Hunt has held a vision of BPL as a full world-wide opportunity to .wire. the world for Intelligent Grid applications and high speed Internet access, and has been a BPL industry veteran since 2000. Phil was a founding board member of the International Powerline Forum (IPF), later the International Powerline Communications Forum and chair of its Technical Working Group. Mr. Hunt was elected the founding Vice President of HomePlug® where he was a board member and an officer, and where he headed the Marketing and Liaison Working Groups.