Second Wind Inc. is a private company whose mission is to advance the use of wind data to make wind energy more profitable for owners, painless for operators and practical for consumers. The company develops ground-breaking hardware and software products related to wind data. About half of all wind turbines installed in the US in the last decade use Second Wind software. That is approximately 15% of all wind turbines. The company’s software monitors more than 6000 turbines and 4 gigawatts of wind-generated electricity worldwide.
The company was founded in 1980 by Walter Sass and Kenneth Cohn. Recently, Inc. magazine ranked Second Wind on it’s first-ever list of the fastest-growing 5000 private companies in the US. Second Wind’s ranking was based on the company’s 27% revenue growth from 2003 to 2006. In December 2007, Second Wind secured $4 million in second-round financing from Good Energies, a leading global investor in the renewable energy and energy efficiency industry.
On July 17, 2008, Second Wind announced that Mark Haller and Jonathan Winer were joining the company’s board of directors. Both gentlemen bring a wealth of experience in the energy industry to the company’s board of directors. Mr. Haller brings with him more than 25 years of experience in the renewable energy industry from positions across the country and in Germany. He is currently with Haller Wind Consulting.
Mr. Winer brings to the board a multi-faceted background of experience in the wind power and renewable energy industry. He is the current executive VP with Essex Hydro Associates and is responsible for the operation, administration, and finance of ten hydro projects. They will be joining Walter Sass, President of Second Wind, Susan Giordano, General Manager, and Jean-Louis Brenninkmeyer, Managing Director of Good Energies, on the company’s board of directors.
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