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Ideal Power Announces Executive Management Team Changes and Corporate Restructuring to Support Recent Progress with PPSA™ and B-TRAN™ TechnologiesAUSTIN, Texas, April 16, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ideal Power Inc., (NASDAQ:IPWR), an innovative power conversion technology company, has announced new executive management team changes as part of a strategic restructuring to support operational progress with the company’s two primary technologies. Effective today, Ideal Power has realigned into two separate operating divisions: Power Conversion Systems to focus on its Power Packet Switching Architecture (PPSA™) and B-TRAN to develop its Bi-directional bi-polar junction TRANsistor (B-TRAN™) solid state switch technology. In conjunction with the corporate restructuring, the following executive management changes were made:
“Our progress with PPSA commercialization and B-TRAN development during the last two quarters now warrants an organizational restructuring within the company as a whole,” said Ideal Power Chairman and newly appointed CEO and President Dr. Lon Bell. “By separating leadership of the two divisions, we will increase our optionality for strategic partners while providing focused management for our two critical corporate assets. “Each of our proprietary technologies addresses a large but distinct business opportunity and requires a specific strategy, organizational structure, investment business case and operational infrastructure to accelerate development and commercialization. With B-TRAN making significant progress and PPSA orders ramping again, the company and board have decided to add expertise at the board level, reorganize our resources and develop separate strategies for optimal uccess with each technology. The company and board of directors thank Dan for his leadership during the past five years and look forward to supporting him in his new role with our B-TRAN division,” concluded Bell. “I am excited and energized to be the commercial lead for the new B-TRAN division,” said former Ideal Power CEO and newly appointed B-TRAN Chief Commercial Officer Dan Brdar. “Separating B-TRAN into its own division will accelerate maturation of our technology and the development of the B-TRAN prototype engineering samples for customer evaluation,” concluded Brdar. “I look forward to jointly collaborating with Uwe Uhmeyer and together overseeing the PPSA division,” said Ideal Power Chief Financial Officer Tim Burns. “It is encouraging to see orders accelerating for our power conversion systems with both new and existing PPSA customers. Furthermore, the recent growth in our order backlog and sales pipeline is an encouraging sign,” concluded Burns. About Ideal Power Inc. Ideal Power’s patented Bi-directional Bi-polar Junction Transistor (B-TRAN) semiconductor technology is a unique double-sided bi-directional AC switch expected to deliver substantial performance improvements over today's conventional power semiconductors. B-TRANs offer the potential to improve efficiency and system economics of a wide variety of power converter applications including electrified vehicle traction drives, energy storage applications, photovoltaic (PV) inverters and wind converters, variable frequency (VFD) motor drives, and AC and DC power control applications. For more information, visit www.IdealPower.com. Safe Harbor Statement Ideal Power Investor Relations Contact: |