1/5/2005
Amperion Adds Business Luminaries to its Board of Directors
Amperion, Inc., the leading provider of broadband over power line (BPL) equipment, is pleased to announce its new board of directors effective immediately. Veteran board members Philip Hunt, Chairman & CEO of Amperion, and John Kohler, former founding executive of Netscape, will be joined by the following new directors:
• Ralph Linsalata, Senior Vice President, Corporate Planning & Development for Novell. Mr. Linsalata has significant management experience and has held executive level positions with Cambridge Technology Capital Fund, Hill Holiday and Weiss, Peck and Greer Venture Partners and General Electric's VC subsidiary.
• William Melton- General Partner at GIV Venture Partners. He is also Chairman and Co-Founder of GIV Global Private Equity. For more than 25 years, Mr. Melton has been an entrepreneur building global technology companies. Mr. Melton was the original founder of VeriFone and an early investor in AOL.
• Warren V. “Pete” Musser- Managing Director of The Musser Group and Chairman Emeritus of Safeguard Scientifics. Mr. Musser has taken more than 50 companies public during his distinguished and successful career as an entrepreneur. Mr. Musser represents Telkonet, a strategic partner of Amperion.

"It's important to have the right leadership and expertise at each stage of a company's life cycle,” commented Philip Hunt, CEO of Amperion. “Our founding directors were tremendously beneficial to our early success, and we are grateful for the commitment and acumen they provided. As we approach a new phase of company maturity with plans for growth and market expansion, this new board will lend significant strategic guidance to our efforts. The members bring their knowledge, success and experience as well as their hindsight, because they are entrepreneurs that have actually been there in the trenches. It's going to be an exciting future at Amperion.”

Amperion recently announced it has raised over $10 million in a preferred equity financing. Amperion's customer base includes 25 BPL networks passing more than 20,000 households in North American and abroad.

About Amperion
Established in June 2001, Amperion develops networking hardware and software that enables the delivery of high-speed broadband data over medium-voltage (MV) power lines. Amperion's headquarters are in Andover, Massachusetts with an international base of operations in Manchester, England. The Amperion Connect product line is in full compliance with the FCC's report and order (R&O) for broadband over Power line equipment. Over the past three years, Amperion has established itself as the market leader in MV broadband solutions with product