Management Team
Ray Bell, Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Ray Bell has over twenty-five years of experience from Oracle Corporation, Cisco Systems, SmartPipes (a company he founded) and Computer Power, where he has served in many advanced engineering, product development, product management and senior management roles. He has an extensive technical background and many years of expertise in designing, developing & deploying advanced networking management and control systems, security infrastructures, and distributed computing systems products.
Ray is an expert in the fields of advanced metering, networking, Internet protocols, security technologies, relational systems, web services, and he has significant experience in complex object oriented design & modeling and schema development. Ray currently serves as the Chairman of OpenAMI, an open standards initiative in the utility industry for advanced metering and demand response systems. A graduate of U.C. Berkeley, Ray is presently a member of the IEC TC57 WG14 and IEC TC13 WG14 and he has made significant contributions to the DMTF and IETF during his career.
Andres Carvallo, EVP and Chief Strategy Officer
Andres is responsible for the company’s branding, messaging, partnerships, marketing, commercialization, support and solutions efforts worldwide. Andres has more than 24 years of experience in the energy, telecommunications, computer, and software industries. Having held executive management positions since 1992, he has been responsible for the successful development and commercialization of over 40 products, in companies ranging from start-ups to market leaders such as Philips Electronics, Digital Equipment Corporation, Borland, and Microsoft.
Prior to Grid Net, Andres was chief information officer at Austin Energy, the 9th largest public power utility in the nation. At Austin Energy, he was responsible for the utility’s technology vision, planning, development and operations. While at Austin Energy, Andres defined and promoted the term “Smart Grid”, was the chief architect of the first Smart Grid to be fully deployed in the U.S., became the premier Smart Grid industry thought leader, and led a comprehensive, highly lauded technology transformation of the utility. Andres has made many industry-wide contributions: he was a contributor to the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act’s Title XIII Smart Grid: Sections 1301 -1309; he served as a key advisor and contributor to NIST and EPRI in the creation of the Smart Grid Interoperability Standards; and he has advised the DOE, FCC, EPA, and NERC in their Smart Grid policy initiatives. Andres received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Kansas with a concentration in Robotics and Control Systems. Andres has also completed executive management programs at the University of Idaho, Stanford University, and The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.