BLUE PILLAR, INC.
FREDERICK, MD

Who We Are Blue Pillar’s mission is to connect the Energy Things™ that power our world. Through our platform we make the world’s energy information available in real-time. This universal connectivity strengthens critical infrastructure against power outages while helping businesses become more operationally productive and energy efficient. Blue Pillar’s management team brings decades of successful leadership experience in the energy, IoT, cybersecurity and industrial automation industries. Tom Willie, CEO of Blue Pillar, brings over 15 years of visionary leadership, entrepreneurial success, and product innovation to Blue Pillar and is an avid evangelist and active change agent for the transformation of the global energy ecosystem from the utility down to the consumer.  As CEO of Blue Pillar, he is leading the company’s efforts to bring disruptive change by using energy network of things solutions to make the world’s facilities and critical infrastructure more energy efficient, resilient, and self-sufficient.   Prior to joining Blue Pillar, Tom was the CEO of CURRENT Group where he was recognized as a visionary in the Smart Grid energy industry.  While at CURRENT, he oversaw the successful launch and deployment of numerous product offerings that became de facto standards in smart metering and smart grid communications.  While leading CURRENT, he also served as the Vice President/Vice Chairman of PRIME Alliance AISBL, a nonprofit industry trade group focused on the development of a new open, public and non-proprietary communications solution which is now being used extensively by utilities all over Europe.  Tom was recognized as a Top 50 Smart Grid Pioneer in 2013 by Smart Grid Today and CURRENT won numerous industry and product awards before being acquired in 2013.    Mr. Witter was the founder of TriA Solutions LLC, which merged with Blue Pillar in 2007. Prior to joining Blue Pillar, Brad held the position of CTO for NNC Group — a software-led “reverse logistics” company acquired by Stericycle in 2005. Prior to that he led the engineering and field teams at Advanced Interface Solutions, Inc., an Invensys/Wonderware distributor. During his time at AISI, he led many energy SCADA projects including a generator test cell for Caterpillar. Mr. Witter began his career as a controls engineer with Caterpillar where he was responsible for designing and implementing turn-key power plant SCADA systems. Mr. Witter holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering at Purdue University. VP OF FINANCE & BUSINESS OPERATIONS Jeff joined Blue Pillar as Vice President of Finance and Business Operations in December 2014.  Jeff brings over 16 years of finance, business development, and operations experience from the energy and semiconductor industries to the Blue Pillar team. Prior to joining Blue Pillar, Jeff served as Vice President of Development for KDC Solar (2013-14) and Executive Vice President for SPI Solar (2008-13).  At KDC and SPI, he was responsible for worldwide business development and international project financing initiatives. Jeff played a key role in securing a $750M debt financing commitment from China Development Bank for KDC Solar.  From 2007 through 2008, Jeff served as Director of Finance for Vista Point Technologies, a Flextronics subsidiary and a leading provider of components to the telecommunications industry. Previously, from 1998 through 2007, Jeff held various management and leadership roles in finance for Intel Corporation.  During this time, he served in Intel China from 2002 through 2007. Jeff spent time as a factory finance manager in Shanghai, PRC, manufacturing controller for a $500 million start-up factory in Chengdu, PRC, and as China country Controller in Beijing, PRC. Mr. Reichel is a co-founder of Blue Pillar & is currently responsible for the customer delivery organization of Blue Pillar.  Eric brings over 17 years of experience in operations, product management and sales roles with energy technology companies.  Eric also worked for Cisco Systems in their Emerging Technology Group and was involved in the sales & rollout of enterprise energy management systems to large retailers and Fortune 100 companies including Walgreens, Google and NetApp.  Prior to Cisco, he was at Encorp Inc., where he was a product manager, and assisted in strategic planning following the merger with Envenergy, whose building integration gateway product was later acquired by Cisco.  Mr. Reichel holds a B.S. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from the University of Washington. Who We Are Blue Pillar’s mission is to connect the Energy Things™ that power our world. Through our platform we make the world’s energy information available in real-time. This universal connectivity strengthens critical infrastructure against power outages while helping businesses become more operationally productive and energy efficient. Blue Pillar’s management team brings decades of successful leadership experience in the energy, IoT, cybersecurity and industrial automation industries. Tom Willie, CEO of Blue Pillar, brings over 15 years of visionary leadership, entrepreneurial success, and product innovation to Blue Pillar and is an avid evangelist and active change agent for the transformation of the global energy ecosystem from the utility down to the consumer.  As CEO of Blue Pillar, he is leading the company’s efforts to bring disruptive change by using energy network of things solutions to make the world’s facilities and critical infrastructure more energy efficient, resilient, and self-sufficient.   Prior to joining Blue Pillar, Tom was the CEO of CURRENT Group where he was recognized as a visionary in the Smart Grid energy industry.  While at CURRENT, he oversaw the successful launch and deployment of numerous product offerings that became de facto standards in smart metering and smart grid communications.  While leading CURRENT, he also served as the Vice President/Vice Chairman of PRIME Alliance AISBL, a nonprofit industry trade group focused on the development of a new open, public and non-proprietary communications solution which is now being used extensively by utilities all over Europe.  Tom was recognized as a Top 50 Smart Grid Pioneer in 2013 by Smart Grid Today and CURRENT won numerous industry and product awards before being acquired in 2013.