Andreas brings 8 years of financial markets and business development experience to the team. He spent 5 years at Deutsche Bank in structuring, sales, and trading of complex financial instruments. He also played professional golf on the Canadian PGA Tour during the 2008 season before co-founding Locality Media. Andreas graduated with a BSBA from Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business.

Edward J. Stempinski has more than 15 years of high-profile experience as a market-, technology- and operations-oriented executive bridging business and technology within the energy industry. Ed has been an inventor or key contributor to numerous commercially viable technology products and services solutions and has contributed to driving dramatic top-line growth for every organization he has worked for since 1996.

Stempinski is currently the CTO, co-founder and Chairman of the Board for Locality Media, committed to providing local governments and their agencies with advanced, easy-to-use technology solutions to help continually improve the transparency, efficiency, and ultimately the health, safety, and welfare of the communities they serve. Ed also serves in an advisory role for NirvanaSoft, providing strategy advice on Smart Grid market operations for energy and utility clients. Stempinski worked with NirvanaSoft from 2005 until the founding of Locality Media.

Upon joining NirvanaSoft in 2005, Ed served as Director of Client Services focusing on organizational scalability through the application of standardized project management processes and implementation methodologies to ensure repeatable and predictable performance. Between 2005 and Q3 2009, Ed was lead on four large scale client implementations, fulfilling varied roles: from sales, marketing, account and project management to coding, testing, documentation, benchmarking, scalability design and execution to production support. Three years after Ed’s arrival, NirvanaSoft attained “leader in its solution category” status, earning Utilipoint’s “No. 1 Rated Complex Billing Solution for the Energy Industry” award at CS Week in each of the last two years (2008 & 2009), outperforming two publicly traded, multi- billion dollar competitors: Oracle and Itron.

Prior to joining NirvanaSoft, Stempinski served as a key contributor in “advanced development and market innovation” at Excelergy, a privately held, multinational software and services business for energy markets. In three of the four years that Ed worked for Excelergy, the company was “awarded a coveted spot in the Red Herring 100 list of companies likely to change the world with its innovative technology and leadership”. While at Excelergy, Stempinski had the distinction of building the prototypes for the Italian government’s energy exchange (GME: market operations & GRTN: transmission grid), as well as Excelergy’s “Hedge Direct” solution for ENEL’s (Italy) Grandi Cliente business. Ed played a role on the implementation teams for both Italian projects and rounded out his international energy market exposure at Excelergy with significant Dutch energy market work for two Netherlands-based regional/municipal utilities.

Earlier in his career, Stempinski worked in the Utilities Division at Systems & Computer Technology Corp. During his tenure, he was a direct report to the President, leading the company to the No. 1 market position in terms of utility Customer Information Systems (BANNER) sold and implemented, and growing customer care and billing segments from $8 million in revenues, 12 client installations and 70 employees upon Ed’s arrival in 1996 to $124 million, 220 client installations in 6 different countries and 680 employees upon Ed’s departure in 2001. To this day, the BANNER base remains one of the largest utility CIS installed footprints worldwide and is currently part of the ABB family of energy market solutions.

Additionally, Ed has been a featured speaker at Oracle’s renowned Open World conference presenting on the “Evolution of Electronic Business” at San Francisco’s Moscone Center. Ed’s unique competence is in devising and successfully implementing large-scale, high-transaction-volume solutions aimed at bringing function to dysfunctional multi-market-participant eco-systems through standardization, interoperability and ROI-centric business process improvement.

Bill Mahoney is a senior advisor for Locality Media and has been CEO of SCRA since 2005.

SCRA (SCRA.org) is a non-stock, tax-exempt applied R&D company, operating under a public charter for knowledge-based economic development in South Carolina.

The company is an emerging global leader in targeted applied research and commercialization services markets. SCRA takes discoveries and prototypes out of labs and off of benches and gets them into production and widespread use.

SCRA performs that work under contracts with mission-oriented federal agencies (e.g. DoD, DHS, DoJ, DoE) and about 200 corporations around the world, as well as through a globally recognized seed capital and startup support program, SC Launch.

Over the last 5 years, as a business, SCRA has grown from $78M in annual revenue to approximately $150M, and total value of AR&D contracts under SCRA management has grown from $235M to over $1.3B.

Regarding its public charter, SCRA has in 26 years of operation contributed over $13B to the South Carolina economy, and helped create nearly 20,000 hi-tech, knowledge- based jobs.

During Bill’s tenure, SCRA has not only achieved the business growth mentioned above, but has also received national best practices recognition from the defense industry for its two Navy-Industry Technology Centers of Excellence.

In the same timeframe, SCRA’s SC Launch program has received leadership awards for technology-based economic development from the Southern Growth Policies Conference, the National Society of State Technology Institutes, Entrepreneur magazine, and the International Economic Development Council. In 2008, Bill was named by TechJournal South magazine as one of the Top 25 Technology Leaders in the Southeast US.

During the roughly 35 years prior to SCRA, Bill led companies commercializing “first-of-a-kind” solutions in telecommunications, electronic publishing, automatic remote monitoring, and other applied systems markets, many of them energy-related.

Bill is a Harvard graduate and former member of the US National Rowing team.