AEB Adds Ex-Evergreen CEO

Wilmington, MA-based startup Advanced Electron Beams announced today that it has hired as its new CEO Richard Feldt, who left his position as chief executive of Marlboro, MA-based Evergreen Solar late last week. Advanced Electron Beams is working on technology that uses high-speed electrons in industrial functions that traditionally require water, heat, or chemicals. Feldt replaces the company’s former CEO Mitch Tyson, who will continue to serve as chairman of Advanced Electron Beam’s board.

Author: Erin Kutz

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.