Amperion Board of Directors
Mike Tomana, Chairman of the Board of Directors
Mr. Michael Tomana is the President and Chief Executive Officer at Redleaf Group and the Managing Director of RLI Partners. Previously, Mr. Tomana served as the Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary at the Redleaf Group.
His background includes over 25 years of business and legal experience with public and private companies. Mr. Tomana was the General Counsel at RedSiren Technologies Inc. and an Equity Partner at Thorp, Reed & Armstrong, LLP where he provided counsel to clients on corporate, commercial, and technology matters.
Mr. Tomana began his career at Thorp, Reed & Armstrong in 1982 and later joined National Intergroup, Inc., where he served until 1990 as Chief Counsel of the Operating Units of that company.
At Thorp, Reed & Armstrong and National Intergroup Inc., Mr. Tomana served as Counsel during numerous strategic mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures in the metals, technology, and distribution areas.
Mr. Tomana is a Director of LucidMedia and serves on its board. He received a Bachelor's degree from Yale University and a Juris Doctor degree from Boston College Law School.
Bill Melton, Director
Mr. William Melton is the Managing Partner of General Internet Ventures (GIV). For more than 30 years, Mr. Melton has been an entrepreneur building global technology companies. In the early 80s, he founded VeriFone, the transaction automation company that has made credit authorization terminals ubiquitous on retail merchant counters throughout the US.
In 1998, VeriFone was sold to HP for approximately $2.1 billion. In the early 90s, Mr. Melton joined as an early investor and Director of the Board at America Online (AOL).
Mr. Melton has also held positions as Chairman and CEO of Cybercash, a pioneer in e-commerce transaction systems, and, in 1994, he co-founded Transaction Network Services (NASDAQ: TNSI), a nationwide network dedicated to efficient transportation of financial transactions.
TNSI was sold to PSINET in 1999 for approximately $750 million. Mr. Melton currently serves on the boards of several privately held technology companies. He holds a Masters degree in Asian Studies and Chinese philosophy.
Milan Mandaric, Director
Mr. Milan Mandaric is the Owner and Chairman of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club in the UK. He is a successful international business man with investments in Europe and the US.
Mr. Mandaric has an extensive operational experience in the Contract Manufacturing industry. He was the founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sanmina Corporation, a leading independent supplier of backpanel assemblies, printed circuit board fabrication and contract assembly.
From its founding in 1980, Sanmina's revenues have grown to more than $10 billion. Prior to that, Mr. Mandaric founded Lika Corp. in the early 1970s and served as its Chief Executive until 1980, when he sold it to Tandy Corporation.
In 1989 Sanmina acquired SCI Systems, a much larger competitor, becoming Sanmina-SCI Corp one of the largest contract manufacturing companies in the world.
Mr. Mandaric also began branching out into investment banking operations with Behrman Capital and also became owner of the St. Louis Storm, a Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) franchise that ceased operations in 1992 when the MISL also folded.
After purchasing and selling a number of soccer clubs in the US and in central Europe, Mr. Mandaric has been focused in recent years on the UK. He is the former owner of Portsmouth Football Club and Leicester City Football Club, and the current owner of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club.
Nachum Sadan, Director and President and CEO
Mr. Nachum Sadan is responsible for the vision and strategic direction of the company, and the execution of its business operations. He is a serial entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in power engineering, computer networking and data communications.
At Amperion, he has turned around the company by developing a completely new communications platform based on innovative and patent protected technology, selling that concept to one of the largest utility companies in the US, and bringing it to commercialization. All on an extremely tight budget.
Prior to his position at Amperion, from 2003 to 2005 Nachum was Chief Operating Officer of Mintera Optical Networks, a pioneer in the development of 40Gbps optical transport products to large telecommunications carriers. Prior to Mintera, Nachum served as Executive Vice President of Technical Operations at Sitara Networks, delivering Quality of Service (QoS) products to large enterprise and service provider customers. During his period from 1998 to 2003 the company grew from a technology start-up into a high gross margin, revenue-producing business, serving major enterprise and telecommunications carriers worldwide.
Prior to Sitara Networks, Nachum was co-founder and Vice President Engineering of CommHome Systems and Bus-Tech Inc. (BTI) two networking startups that successfully sold. As a founding member of Bus-Tech, Nachum helped grow the company from 6 to 35 employees and increase product revenue from $1M to over $25M in 5 years until it was sold to Network Systems Corp in 1993. He delivered the first SNA to IP gateway to market and helped establishing strategic partnerships with IBM, Novell and Microsoft.
Nachum holds a number of patents in powerline communications and is a frequent speaker at IEEE, smart grid and clean energy conferences. He is a member of the MIT Enterprise Forum, MassNetComms, American Technion Society, Northeastern University Alumni Association and the IEEE Power Engineering Society, Communications Society and Computer Society.
He received a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University in Boston Massachusetts and a Bachelor of Science cum laude in Electrical Engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.