Accio Adds New CEO

Ann Arbor, MI-based Accio Energy, a developer of technology for converting wind to energy without using turbines, announced yesterday that it has added Jennifer Baird as its chief executive officer. Baird most recently served as president and CEO of venture-backed Accuri Cytometers of Ann Arbor, a maker of affordable instruments for examining microscopic particles in the life sciences space. The Accio announcement notes that Baird will help drive the company’s next stage of growth and development.

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Erin Kutz has a background in covering business, politics and general news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Erin previously worked in the Boston bureau of Reuters, where she wrote articles on the investment management and mutual fund industries. While in college, she researched for USA Today reporter Jayne O’Donnell’s book, Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail. She also spent a semester in Washington, DC, reporting Capitol Hill stories as a correspondent for two Connecticut newspapers and interning in the Money section of USA Today, where she assisted with coverage on the retail and small business beats. Erin got her first taste of reporting at Boston University’s independent student newspaper, as a city section reporter and fact checker and editor of the paper’s weekly business section.