about two-thirds of Americans (68 percent) have never heard the term “smart grid” and 63 percent don’t know what a smart meter is.
—EcoDog founding CEO Ron Pitt told me the company’s energy monitoring device has been installed in the new “eco-savvy” homes at Rockrose at the Foothills, a planned development near Carlsbad, CA.
—Helix Wind (NASDAQ OTC Bulletin Board: HLXW), the San Diego cleantech that makes wind turbines, named Scott Weinbrandt as CEO, replacing co-founder Ian Gardner. Gardner also left the company’s board.
—San Diego’s West Wireless Health Institute named former Johnson & Johnson executive Don Casey as CEO. It’s been a year since the Gary and Mary West Foundation created the nonprofit research institute with a $45 million donation.
—Carlsbad, CA-based wireless chip design company MaxLinear could raise as much as $81 million in its IPO in the next couple of weeks, if underwriters exercise all their options. The company will offer 5.43 million shares at between $11 and $13 a share.
—San Diego-based Memjet, which is developing new inkjet printer technology, named former General Atomics CFO Mark Legg as its chief financial officer.
—Fallbrook Technologies, the San Diego company commercializing more-efficient transmission, said it will develop a new design for an automotive air conditioner compressor with Hodyon of Austin, TX. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
Author: Bruce V. Bigelow
In Memoriam: Our dear friend Bruce V. Bigelow passed away on June 29, 2018. He was the editor of Xconomy San Diego from 2008 to 2018. Read more about his life and work here.
Bruce Bigelow joined Xconomy from the business desk of the San Diego Union-Tribune. He was a member of the team of reporters who were awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for uncovering bribes paid to San Diego Republican Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham in exchange for special legislation earmarks. He also shared a 2006 award for enterprise reporting from the Society of Business Editors and Writers for “In Harm’s Way,” an article about the extraordinary casualty rate among employees working in Iraq for San Diego’s Titan Corp. He has written extensively about the 2002 corporate accounting scandal at software goliath Peregrine Systems. He also was a Gerald Loeb Award finalist and National Headline Award winner for “The Toymaker,” a 14-part chronicle of a San Diego start-up company. He takes special satisfaction, though, that the series was included in the library for nonfiction narrative journalism at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
Bigelow graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1977 with a degree in English Literature and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1979. Before joining the Union-Tribune in 1990, he worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles and The Kansas City Times.
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