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Tigo Announces Kevin Kilkelly as Vice President of Sales for the AmericasTigo, the Flex MLPE pioneer, today announced that Kevin Kilkelly joined the company and will assume the position of VP of Sales for the Americas. Kilkelly, an experienced renewable energy executive, will lead Tigo's commercial team and sales efforts throughout North, Central and South America, where he will manage the development of new business opportunities and oversee Tigo's customer engagement processes for both direct and indirect sales channels. "I am delighted to be joining Tigo," said Mr. Kilkelly. "I am particularly excited as their innovation in the field of smart and affordable Module Level Power Electronics (Flex MLPE), is poised to be a significant game changer in the solar industry. Tigo is truly leading innovations through its cloud based, scalable, and Rapid Shutdown technology. I'm looking forward to tackling the challenges ahead." Kilkelly has more than 15 years of executive and sales management experience in renewable energy and wholesale distribution. Prior to joining Tigo, Kevin held various executive positions at Unirac and SolarWorld as well as nearly 10 years at General Electric in operations, quality and as a P&L manager. Kilkelly has a Bachelor of Science from the United States Military Academy, West Point, and a Master of Business Administration from Duke University. "Kevin's proven leadership and understanding of the photovoltaic market make him a natural fit to service and respond to the needs of our national accounts and distribution channel partners," said Zvi Alon, CEO of Tigo. "His experience and proven track record of providing solutions to customer's most complex challenges will help position our customers for more reliable energy production and long term financial sustainability." About Tigo Serving the MLPE market for years led Tigo to envision and deliver the Flex MLPE architecture, cornerstone of the PV industries' effort to convert every PV module to the IoT. After years of research, development, testing and certification, Tigo brought the revolutionary TS4 platform (the smartest modular MLPE) to market. Tigo's first and revolutionary new concept to fully support the Flex MLPE architecture. Tigo's modular TS4 platform can be selectively deployed with different functionalities per module at different price points utilizing Predictive IV (PIV) technology to maximize energy harvest at minimal cost. The TS4 platform comes in integrated solution and retrofit/add-on solution. Flex MLPE offers customers, suppliers, and financial communities the solution that improves return on investment at each level and guarantees to reduce the O&M cost over the life time of any project. Tigo has operations in the USA, across Europe, Japan, China, Australia and the Middle East. Tigo is online at http://www.tigoenergy.com/
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