ONZO Strengthens North American Focus

LONDON and DENVER, September 14, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

Opens Office in Denver; Hires Key Industry Leaders 

ONZO, a global provider of data science-based energy analytics solutions for the utility industry, today announced that it has opened a headquarters office in Denver, Colorado, to support its rapidly growing North American operations. The new office is located at 1644 Platte Street.

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ONZO has been an industry leader since 2007, providing energy analytics solutions in the U.K. and European utility markets as well as a number of pilots with large U.S. utilities. "Since our platform leverages meter data to provide very granular insights into customer energy behavior - and given that there are now more than 50 million smart meters installed in the U.S. - it just makes sense to broaden our reach more deeply into North America," commented ONZO CEO Spencer Rigler.

ONZO also announces that Tom Van Denover has been hired as Executive Vice President of North American Sales and Operations. Van Denover has more than 30 years of experience selling and marketing to utilities for mission-critical solutions. His executive leadership skills and in-depth knowledge of end-to-end utility operations have helped several key companies in the utility space achieve high levels of market success. Some of these companies include Elster Solutions, Itron, Tropos Networks, Comverge, KEMA Inc., and Convergent Group.

"I've been involved with helping utilities leverage technology to meet their evolving business goals for many years," said Van Denover. "One of the biggest challenges now faced by utilities is making the important transition to a new way of doing business and a new way of engaging with their customers. I'm very excited about my new role with the ONZO team as we bring our highly personalized customer insight and engagement solutions to North America's regulated and deregulated markets."

Also joining the North American ONZO team are Bruce Gordon (Vice President, Eastern Sales), Ginger Juhl (Vice President, North American Marketing), Deitrea (Dee) Martir (Director of Technical Solutions, North America) and James Osborne (Vice President, Western Sales).

Gordon brings ONZO a strong track record of sales and marketing success in utility and energy markets, with over 28 years of experience spanning utility customer engagement, AMI, smart grid, demand response, demand management, cyber-security, energy trading, CRM and data management.

Juhl is a well-known marketing professional in the utility smart grid space. She had marketing and communications expertise to many of the industry's leading technology consulting, systems integration and product development companies for more than 25 years.

Martir is an accomplished and innovative professional with a unique combination of business and technical experience and a track record focused on listening to what's being said by clients and delivering the best possible business solutions.

Osborne has over 22 years of consulting and industry experience and a track record for delivering solutions for CRM, GIS, asset management, outage management and meter data management.

About ONZO  

ONZO is a global leader in consumer energy data and analytics. ONZO combines the science of energy analytics with load disaggregation, lifestyle behavior analysis and probabilistic forecasting to give utilities and their customers unprecedented insights into how, where and when energy is used.  Leveraging granular smart meter data, ONZO's patented algorithms result in richer, highly accurate, customer-specific insights that help utilities improve customer engagement and energy efficiency, while reducing churn and creating new revenue opportunities. Visit Onzo.com and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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