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Interval Data Systems, Inc. was founded because of a need in the
marketplace to understand energy usage on an operational,
maintenance, and cost reduction basis. Cofounders Bill Gnerre and Greg Cmar
started IDS in the fall of 2003 with the belief that in the near
future, all facilities managers will use data to manage energy
consumption and costs. And EnergyWitness™ was born.
It has been impossible for facilities organizations to effectively
manage their utilities and building operations costs because there
has been very little factual information available to base decisions
on. Costs associated with utilities, building control systems, and
their associated equipment has been impossible to monitor due to the
lack of available data. Of the data that does exist, only one to two
percent is used—the rest has been thrown away because it was too hard and time
consuming to deal with.
EnergyWitness provides a
360-degree view of a facility/campus that contains all the facts
about operations, replacing today's guesswork with actionable
information. This new approach to Enterprise Energy Management
Systems (EEMS) separates
IDS from traditional EEMS providers
such as metering and building automation companies. EnergyWitness
is not an extension of these traditional systems nor a competitor; rather it is a
system that encompasses them and provides complimentary capabilities.
IDS solutions will enhance the value and improve returns from energy
investments as well as extending equipment life, reducing
operational energy costs, and creating a positive cash flow. In addition to complementing
installed metering and building automation systems IDS introduces an entirely new set
of capabilities, applications and financial benefits never thought
possible.
Management Team
As leaders of the company, the IDS management team brings extensive
software development and building/utilities operational experience.
Their expertise in energy systems and software technology provide an
unmatched ability to deliver EEMS products and services.
Bill Gnerre, Cofounder and Chief Executive Officer
With twenty-plus years of enterprise sales, marketing, and
entrepreneur experience, Bill leads the overall company management
and growth activities working with customers, partners, and
investors. Bill has an exemplary record of bringing enterprise
software applications to market through his expertise in market
identification and segmentation, early-stage sales, and user
adoption of technology.
His previous roles include being a partner at Monadnock Associates,
a consulting organization specializing in assisting startup software
companies; cofounder of ChannelWave Software, a partner relationship
management systems provider; director of sales & marketing at Wright
Strategies, an early PDA data collection application vendor; and
product marketing roles at Formtech and Computervision, both vendors
of CAD technologies. Earlier in his career Bill worked in various
mechanical engineering positions.
Gregory Cmar, Cofounder and Chief Technical Officer
Greg is one of the most knowledgeable people on the planet when it
comes to energy systems and how interval data can be used to manage
them. He brings 30 years of experience in facility operations,
energy conservation, energy analytics, energy auditing, monitoring
and control systems, and utility billing, as well as database,
application and automation technologies to IDS. Greg leads the
product definition effort and defines the overall software
architecture. He also leads the energy
management services team.
Prior employment includes being a cofounder and director of
engineering at ForPower, an energy conservation consulting firm;
engineering manager at Coneco, an energy services company and
subsidiary of Boston Edison; vice president of Enertech Systems, an
energy monitoring and control systems contractor; and various roles
at Johnson Controls, the Massachusetts Energy Office, and Honeywell.
Greg holds patent #5,566,084 for the process for identifying
patterns of electric energy, effects of proposed changes, and
implementing such changes in the facility to conserve energy.
Kevin Fuller, Executive Vice President and General Manager,
Utility Billing
Kevin is responsible for marketing and product development at IDS,
and oversees the utility billing business. He brings over 25 years of
technical and marketing experience in database, data warehouse, OLAP,
and enterprise applications, and has a passion for applying
technology to solve real business problems.
Before joining the IDS team, Kevin spent 15 years working for
vendors of relational database, data warehousing, and OLAP
technologies in both marketing and customer support roles where he
developed a strong appreciation of how businesses used data to their
advantage. More recently, he cofounded Softgoods Development, and
worked for enterprise software and Internet-based companies ranging
from advanced analytics to e-commerce to financial services.
Raffi Manjikian, Chief Operations Officer
Raffi is responsible for managing the company's day-to-day financial
operations, corporate compliance, HR, and vendor relations. Having
spent more than 20 years in senior management roles, Raffi has been
driven to answer the question, “How are we doing?” with a clear
focus on high customer expectations and the metrics to back it up.
Prior to joining IDS, Raffi was president and COO of AdvantaCare,
Inc., a JCAHO software vendor that was acquired privately in 2003.
Previously, he was the director at several prestigious university
based healthcare programs in Boston. Raffi is a graduate of Drake,
Harvard, and Boston University.
Jim Zahka, Vice President, Sales and Business Development
Jim is a technology-oriented sales veteran with over 20 years of
experience. He is responsible for directing IDS’s sales strategy,
developing a world-class sales organization, and the acquisition and
development of client accounts.
Before joining the IDS team, Jim was a sales management, operations,
and process consultant. Previously, he was the senior vice president
of sales at AMR Research where he increased sales productivity 42%
in a down market, and was vice president of sales at Knowledge
Impact and Applix, where he revamped the sales organization and
increased sales from $6M to $20M, and planned and executed a
turnaround strategy to gain market share in the Customer
Relationship Management market, respectively. Jim holds a degree in
accounting from Lehigh University, and an MBA from Boston College.
Founded
September 26, 2003
Contact Information
Interval Data Systems, Inc.
104 Summer Street
Watertown, MA 02472
617-744-1091
617-744-1092 (Fax)
info@intdatsys.com
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