Management
F. William Capp
President and Chief Executive Officer
Bill Capp has been Beacon Power President and CEO since December 2001. Prior to joining Beacon, Bill was the Telecommunications Group President of Bracknell Corporation, providing infrastructure for the telecommunications industry, with annual sales of $350 million and 30 regional offices in the U.S. and Canada. From 1997-2000, he served as President of York International's Northfield Division. From 1978-1997, Bill held numerous positions at Ingersoll-Rand. From 1992-1997, he was Vice President and General Manager of the Centrifugal Compressor Division, where he was responsible for over 700 employees. From 1989-1992, Bill was Vice President of Technology for The Torrington Company, a $900+ million manufacturer of bearings and precision components. Prior to joining Ingersoll-Rand, he worked for Ford's Truck Division in areas such as project engineering, systems analysis, and product planning. Bill received his B.S. degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Purdue University and his MBA and M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Michigan. He has also completed the Black Belt Training Program from the American Society for Quality.
Matthew L. Lazarewicz
Chief Technical Officer
Matt Lazarewicz joined Beacon Power in 1999 as Vice President of Engineering, and has served as our Chief Technical Officer since 2002. Prior to joining Beacon, Matt worked for General Electric Company in various capacities. He started his 25-year career with GE in the gas turbine division as a design engineer. After a transfer to GE Aircraft Engines, he progressed through a variety of positions in design, manufacturing, quality, marketing, and product support in both military and commercial applications. Most recently he served as a manager of program independent analysis from 1996 to 1999, and he was the mechanical design manager for the F414 engine used in the Navy front line F/A18 fighter. He won the GE Aircraft Engines "Engineer of the Year" and the Department of Defense "Excellence in Acquisition" Awards for his leadership of this project. Matt is a Registered Professional Engineer in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and received both B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as a Master's Degree in Management from MIT's Sloan School of Management.
James M. Spiezio
Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer
Jim Spiezio joined Beacon in May 2000 as Corporate Controller, and has been Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer since July 2000. He has over 30 years of diversified manufacturing and financial management experience. Prior to Beacon, Jim worked as a financial consultant from November 1999 to May 2000. Before this, Jim was the Chief Financial Officer at Starmet Corporation, a diversified metallurgical manufacturing company, from January 1993 to November 1999. While at Starmet he also served as president of a wholly-owned manufacturing facility for five years and held additional financial management positions including Corporate Controller and Manager of Planning and Analysis. Prior to joining Starmet, Jim held financial management positions with United Technologies Corporation, Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Group in accounting, cost and business analysis. Before Pratt & Whitney, he held financial management positions with General Electric Company in both the Power Systems and Apparatus Services business groups. Jim is a graduate of the Indiana University School of Business.
Judith F. Judson
Vice President of Asset Management and Market Development
Judith Judson was promoted to her current position and made an officer of Beacon Power in April 2010, after serving as the company's Director of Regulatory and Market Affairs since January 2008. She played a key role in the creation of tariffs within several deregulated electricity markets that now allow non-generation resources like Beacon's flywheels to participate, and she continues to lead the effort to help shape language in market rules and implement pay-for-performance-based compensation commensurate with Beacon's high-performance, fast-response technology. As head of asset management, Judith manages a team that is developing the company's merchant frequency regulation plants in the U.S. In that capacity she oversees site selection, plant development and interconnection, and is responsible for project management, budgets and schedules. As each plant is built, she will oversee operations and direct the regulation services bidding process so as to maximize Beacon's revenue and profit potential. Before Beacon, Judith worked for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 2003 through early 2007, where she rose to become the state's head energy and telecom regulator. As Chairwoman of the Mass. Department of Telecommunications and Energy, she managed a 150-person team to regulate the state's $11-billion energy industry and $4-billion telecom industry. Judith holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Kettering University.