Smart Hydrogen appoints Plug Power Board members

Plug Power announced on Thursday the appointment of Andrew Dimitri and Dennis V. Pivnyuk to the Company's board of directors by Smart Hydrogen which invested $217 million in Plug Power in 2006. The appointments complete the slate of Class B directors to Plug Power's 11-member board.

Dimitri is a principal and CEO of ExImWare, Inc., a privately held company that develops web-hosted trade, procurement and risk management software solutions and services for commodity companies, primarily in the agri-commodity industries.

Prior to leading ExImWare, Dimitri was a principal and COO of KLG, a boutique advisory firm serving global financial services and securities firms including Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Fidelity Investments, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and NYSE Euronext. Before KLG, Dimitri served as managing director and COO of Global Information Technology for Credit Suisse, where he led the financial and business management function of the investment bank's global information technology organization.

Dimitri earned a bachelor of science from Babson College in Wellesley, MA, and an MBA with a concentration in general management and entrepreneurial studies from Harvard University.

Dennis Pivnyuk is a business development manager for Interros Holding Company, where he focuses on hydrogen and the commercialization of fuel cell technologies and products in the Russian market. Interros is a principal, along with Norilsk Nickel, in Smart Hydrogen, a joint venture formed to participate in the global hydrogen economy.

Prior to joining Interros, Pivnyuk was deputy director general for the Khrunichev Space Center, one of Russia's most successful aerospace enterprises. While there, he established and led the external relations and corporate communications for the company. He holds a bachelor degree from Lomonosov Moscow State University and an advanced degree with a concentration in financial management from Financial Academy (formerly Moscow State Financial Institute).

Dimitri and Pivnyuk were appointed directors by Smart Hydrogen to replace Lisa Rosenblum and Sergey Batekhin, who is leaving to become CEO of Norilsk Nickel.

Source: Fuel Cell Today