Tellurex Adds Thomas Kinnear to its Board of Directors

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich., Oct. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Clyde E. McKenzie, Chairman and CEO Tellurex Corporation, has announced the appointment of Thomas C. Kinnear to its Board of Directors. The Board elected him to an open position on September 5.

Kinnear, the D. Maynard Phelps Professor of Business Administration and Marketing at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, was founding Executive Director of the internationally known Samuel Zell and Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the school. A longtime investor and friend of Tellurex, Kinnear brings an extensive background in the corporate and academic worlds as well as a great deal of leadership and success in the venture capital arena.

"We are excited to welcome Tom to our board" said Tellurex Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Clyde McKenzie. "He was an early investor in Tellurex. He stayed with his judgment about the long term prospects for Tellurex and built his position through the recession and on up to the present. His peerless academic background, his broad hands-on experience in the development of emerging companies and his active roles in the establishment and growth of capital markets that are driving the resurgence of the State of Michigan make him a singular and very important addition to our company's team of attentive and active directors."

Professor Kinnear noted, "Tellurex Corporation is known for product innovations and developments of its own and for successful collaborations with others. The company has demonstrated deep thermoelectric technology insight based on years of research into thermoelectric materials and module design and assembly. I'm pleased to be part of the committed and talented board of Tellurex as the company drives to high levels of successful commercialization of its innovative products".

About Tellurex Corporation

Tellurex Corporation is a Traverse City, Michigan-based company, pioneering thermoelectric products and applications while opening or broadening the markets for the technology. The company develops, assembles and markets its own products and extensively collaborates with others on engineering and design of medical testing equipment, wireless sensors, thermally controlled enclosures, small personal power generators and many other applications in both power generation and thermal management.  Tellurex Corporation is headquartered at 1462 International Drive, Traverse City, Michigan 49686. For more information call 231-947-0110 or go to www.tellurex.com.

SOURCE Tellurex Corporation