Participant Overview
Bob Chiste
President & CEO
Comverge, Inc.
Robert M. Chiste has served as Comverge, Inc.’s Chairman, President and CEO since September 2001. From 1998 - September 2001, Mr. Chiste was a private investor and co-founded three technology start-ups: TriActive, Inc., a provider of hosted systems management solutions, FuelQuest, Inc., an on-demand software provider for the fuel industry, and iMark, Inc., an internet industrial products auction company. From 1994 - 1997, Mr. Chiste served as Vice Chairman, President and CEO of Allwaste, Inc., a publicly-traded provider of industrial, energy and environmental services, until its acquisition by Philip Services Corp., where he served as President of the Industrial Services Group from 1997 - 1998. From 1986 - 1994, he served as President and CEO of American National Power, Inc., a successor to Transco Energy Ventures Company, an independent power company and a subsidiary of publicly-traded Transco Energy Company. At Transco Energy, he also served as Sr. Vice President of Strategic Planning from 1986 - 1988 and headed its corporate venture capital activities from 1986 - 1994. Mr. Chiste currently serves on the board of directors of publicly-traded Franklin Credit Management Corporation, a specialty lender, as well as private companies AisRe, FuelQuest, Inc. and TriActive, Inc.