VYCON® Taps 20-Year Power Quality Veteran to Direct North American Sales

Nov. 3, 2008
Los Angeles – November 3, 2008 — VYCON (http://www.vyconenergy.com), the designer and manufacturer of environmentally-friendly, high-speed energy storage flywheel systems, today announced the appointment of Dann McKeraghan as Director of Sales for North ...

Los Angeles – November 3, 2008 — VYCON (http://www.vyconenergy.com), the designer and manufacturer of environmentally-friendly, high-speed energy storage flywheel systems, today announced the appointment of Dann McKeraghan as Director of Sales for North America. McKeraghan joins VYCON from Eaton Corporation where he managed the Central Zone for Eaton's Powerware series of Uninterruptible Power Systems (UPSs) and associated power quality solutions for nearly a decade.

McKeraghan will be responsible for managing the sales of VYCON's newly released VDC and VDC-XE Direct Connect DC power systems that protect mission-critical power quality applications. These innovative clean energy systems bring environmentally friendly backup power to data centers, hospitals, broadcast studios, gaming centers and manufacturing plants.

During his 20-year career, McKeraghan has held key positions with power quality leaders such as Eaton, Exide Electronics and Power Distribution Inc. “We are excited to have Dann lead VYCON's sales efforts in North America. His experience and knowledge of the power quality market and proven track record of managing channel partners and sales growth will be a great asset to VYCON,” commented Frank DeLattre, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer for VYCON.

About VYCON

VYCON is an innovator in the design and manufacturing of technologically advanced flywheel energy storage systems that enable a highly reliable, cost-effective and “Green” energy storage solution for a variety of applications. VYCON's products are applied in the power quality markets to provide back-up power in mission critical applications and in the energy re-cycling markets for capturing and regenerating energy in crane, electric rail and distributed generation applications. VYCON is a publicly listed company on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange and is headquartered in Orange County, Calif.

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Amy Fischbach | Field Editor

Amy Fischbach is the field editor for the Electric Utility Operations section of Transmission & Distribution World. She worked for Prism Business Media (now Penton) for eight years, most recently as the managing editor of Club Industry's Fitness Business Pro magazine. She is now working as a freelance writer and editor for B2B magazines. Amy earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism from Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. She serves as the national vice president of the American Society of Business Publication Editors. She can be reached at [email protected].

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