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About Me: Chris Purpura

I’ve always been very aware of the impact of new and enabling technologies on the way people work and live. My day job is as the head of Marketing for a wireless data communications company called Aeris Communications (see: www.aeris.net if you’d like to learn more). My interest in clean energy, energy efficiency, enabling technologies such as wireless data enabled devices like meters, and the role that grid modernization can have on our economy, our environment, and our global competitiveness is both professional and personal. I have four children who I’d like to make the world a better place for when they grow up, and I have a business to build that I believe can have a material impact on the speed and costs of rolling out smart devices faster.

For more about me professionally, here’s my Aeris bio:
Mr. Purpura, who joined Aeris in 2007, manages all marketing and product management activities for the company. He is also responsible for overall strategic direction of Aeris’s utilities solutions.

Mr. Purpura has more than 16 years experience in Internet, infrastructure software, and VoIP communications companies both private and public. Most recently Mr. Purpura led New Ventures and Strategic Alliances at Platform Computing, the leading provider of enterprise grid middleware. Mr. Purpura has also held various senior executive level positions across Marketing, Product Management, Strategy, and Alliances functions at GoldenGate Software, a leading data transaction middleware vendor; Cerebra, a leading Policy Engine vendor (acquired by WebMethods); and Aspect Communications, a leading Contact Center vendor. Mr. Purpura also served as Director of Product Management at Oracle where he led the initial market strategy and launch of Oracle’s Internet and Application Server products division.

Mr. Purpura recently spoke at CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment on the topic of “Surveying Prospects in the M2M Landscape” and has joined a panel of experts for the last two years at the M2M United Conference. He also spoke at the Next Generation Utilities Technology Summit 2008 (see www.ngusummit.com) on September 16th and is scheduled to speak at the Commercializing the Smart Grid: Technologies & Applications Summit on November 7th.

Mr. Purpura holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science degree from the University of California, San Diego, with a minor in Japanese Studies.