With her distinguished background in alliance development and sales, often creating from scratch or helping firms move to a partner-driven business, Lisa Caswell is responsible for driving the eMeter business and working toward complete integration into the Siemens Smart Grid division. Prior to eMeter Ms Caswell served as the VP of Global Alliance Sales at Chordiant Software. She has a history of working with firms that have fundamentally changed an industry or business practice area including: Aravo, Ariba, CBT Systems, Visioneer, Apple Computer, and IBM. Lisa’s strong knowledge of both enterprise software and consumer facing solutions gives way to a perfect fit for eMeter, which not only serves the Utility marketplace but also provides software for the utilities to better interact with consumers.
Guido Frantzen holds a certified public accountant (CPA) license as well as two graduate business degrees from the University of Georgia and the University of Erlangen-Nuermberg. During his eight years at Siemens, Guido has worked in various financial functions across multiple divisions and operating companies. Guido previously worked with the Industry Sector’s Drive Technologies Division as a Customer Relationship Management Controller with the Large Drives Business Unit.
One industry buzzword Larsh Johnson believes in is “Interoperability”. At eMeter he has always advocated for a design that is easily integrated with a full range of AMI products and minimally disruptive to existing business processes. Larsh is regularly sought out to contribute to industry standards boards and interoperability conferences, notably as a founding member of the GridWise Architecture Council, the Utility Standards Board, and UtiliMetrics. Larsh combined his technical foresight with Cree Edwards’ vision to co-found CellNet Data Systems in 1984. He’s been leading developers in implementing TOU and other advanced metering solutions for over 20 years. Larsh has a B.S. and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.
A nationally recognized authority on energy regulation and competitive energy markets, Chris King is widely recruited by regulators and legislators to consult on technology issues in electric restructuring and grid management. He has testified before Congress and was instrumental in crafting the Energy Policy Act of 2005 that paved the way for advanced metering initiatives in the USA. Anticipating customer choice before its time, Chris was CEO and founder of Utility.com, which provided electric, gas and telecommunications services nationwide. Chris joined Cree Edwards and Larsh Johnson at CellNet, where he served as Vice President-Regulatory Affairs and Vice President-Sales and Marketing. Chris has also directed various energy efficiency and time-of-use pricing programs at Pacific Gas and Electric Company, the largest utility in the United States. Chris holds a B.S. and an M.S. in Biological Sciences from Stanford University, an M.S. in Management from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and a J.D. from Concord University School of Law.
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Elisa Smith leads eMeter’s global legal team. She also serves as eMeter’s Corporate Secretary. She provides counsel to every department of the company in areas such as operations, sales, partner and customer contracts and intellectual property.
Prior to joining eMeter’s management team, Elisa served as outside counsel to the company as a partner in the corporate and commercial transactions group of Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, where she worked for 15 years. During her tenure at Pillsbury, Elisa also worked with a wide variety of energy and technology companies to help them manage complex transactions and mergers and acquisitions. She was also a partner at Skjerven Morrill LLP and Sideman & Bancroft LLP.
Elisa was introduced to members of eMeter’s management team in 1994 when she served as outside counsel to CellNet Data Systems. At CellNet, she worked closely with Cree Edwards and Chris King to negotiate large, multi-year AMI contracts. It was from this experience that Elisa developed expertise and interest in the advanced metering industry.
Elisa earned her bachelor’s degree from UC San Diego and her JD from Santa Clara University School of Law.