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Dr. Albert A Esser

Albert@AlbertEsserConsulting.com

Significant Career Contributions

Dr. Albert A. Esser joint fortu AG in March 2011 and currently holds the position of CEO. Before he was the CEO of Albert Esser Consulting, Inc. offering a wide variety of services in the technology sector. Dr. Esser started his Consulting career with AlbertEsser LLC, later acquired by Econdius, LLC. Dr. Esser was founding Interim President of the National Institute for Renewable Energy and was Chairman of the Sustainable Technologies Committee at Innovate Texas Foundation.

Prior Dr. Esser was Vice President Power and Infrastructure Solutions, Dell Inc. until 2009 where he was responsible for Dell’s Infrastructure Product line and Dell’s global Power and Cooling Initiative, enhancing Dell’s enterprise class IT solutions, providing insight gained from customers to the Server, Storage, Data Center Solutions and Services product leaders to maximize the value of the Dell solutions.

Formerly Dr. Esser was the Vice President Technology, Fluid Power Group, Eaton. Dr. Esser was before the Vice President Engineering, Eaton Corporation and in charge of Eaton’s Innovation Centers. He served on the Eaton Technology Council and was responsible for Eaton’s central research.

Prior to Eaton, Dr. Esser was the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President, Emerson Network Power, Emerson Electric. He served as Technology Business Leader, Network Power Group, on the Emerson Technology Council. As CTO, he was overseeing the global R&D and product development of Emerson Network Power, which has R&D locations in 6 continents. The product lines included UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply), Precision Air-conditioning, Telecom-DC Systems, Monitoring Systems and others. Concurrently Dr. Esser was also the VP Global Design DC-Systems and had direct global responsibility for the global R&D and Engineering of the Telecom DC-Systems Business.

During his Emerson Network Power tenure Dr. Esser was selected as a Founding Member and currently Member Emeritus of the GridWise Architecture Council (GWAC), sponsored by the DOE, a team of industry leaders who are shaping the guiding principles, or architecture, of a highly intelligent and interactive electric system, one ripe with decision-making information exchange and market-based opportunities.

Previously Dr. Esser held the position Senior Vice President Corporate Research at Hilti, Liechtenstein. The fields of Research he was responsible for included Work Science, Advanced Material Science and Analyses, Advanced Electronics and Systems, New Business Idea finding including business case studies, Engineering Services and others. He had global responsibility for joint research with Universities, Government and strategic partners.

Dr. Esser’s career with Emerson started as the Corporate Director Technology. In this assignment he was administering Emerson’s Strategic Investment Program aimed at highly visible technology based growth opportunities.

In Dr. Esser’s early career he held several positions with increasing responsibilities in GE. He started as Project Manager in GE’s Corporate R&D Center, Power Controls Program, and became Manager of this group. Dr. Esser had responsibility for GE’s Research in the field of Electric Motors, Drives, Power Electronics, and Advanced Controls for these fields. Projects included Hybrid Bus (for NYC), Locomotive Traction Drive, High Speed Starter/Generator, high power inverters and others. Dr. Esser then was appointed as Manager Imaging Subsystems, and later Global Manager at GE Medical Systems, MRI. He was one of GE’s first Certified Master Blackbelt and was part of the initial 6 Sigma effort in GE Medical Systems.

Dr. Esser started his career with Daimler-Benz as a Staff Scientist and member of the Corporate Technology Exchange Program. He was responsible for innovative power conversion for rail applications.

Dr. Esser received his Diplom-Ing. (MS) and Dr.-Ing (PhD) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Aachen, Germany in 1988 and 1992 respectively. He published a book on wireless transmission of electric power and signals for robots, over 10 papers, received an Outstanding Prize Paper Award jointly from the IEEE/Industrial Application Society and the IEE Japan (1993), received a post Doc scholarship from the German Research Foundation (DfG), holds 12 US patents and received numerous company awards including GE’s Dushman award, GE’s highest ranking team award.