Hammersla named CEO of Utilidata

ED Hammersla is the new CEO of Utilidata Inc., replacing Scott DePasquale, who will remain chairman of the board.
ED Hammersla is the new CEO of Utilidata Inc., replacing Scott DePasquale, who will remain chairman of the board.

PROVIDENCE – Ed Hammersla is the new CEO of Utilidata Inc., replacing Scott DePasquale, who will remain chairman of the board.

DePasquale, who served as chairman and CEO since 2012 of the global software company, is taking on a new national security project in the Washington, D.C., area, according to a company press release.

Hammersla, with more than 40 years industry experience, was most recently president of Forcepoint Federal LLC and chief strategy officer of Forcepoint, a Raytheon joint venture focused on marketing cybersecurity products to government and commercial organizations. He led Raytheon Cyber Products prior to Forcepoint.

Hammersla began his career at IBM and has held leadership positions with Sterling Software, Informix Federal, NEC and Trusted Computer Solutions. He has also worked in the venture capital community as CEO of multiple startups.

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“This is a period of transformation for the utility industry – business models are evolving as utilities seek to integrate distributed energy resources, and many more connected devices to the power delivery system,” DePasquale said in a statement on Tuesday. “Security must be an integral part of how we improve and automate the power grid to cope with 21st century realities. Ed brings vast experience in scaling technology and cybersecurity solutions to the Utilidata team, and his deep operating experience bringing commercial products to market at Raytheon will surely help us maximize our recent partnership with them.”

Hammersla said Utilidata is “simply the best growth opportunity I’ve seen in decades.” He noted Utilidata’s broad portfolio of patents and “proven expertise at the pinnacle of the operational technology/information technology intersection of our industry.”

“The team at Utilidata has found a way to use a single technology to deliver two results: cost savings and cybersecurity,” Hammersla said in prepared remarks. “The same information that’s being used to save energy and enable utilities to operate more efficiently is also providing the visibility and contextual data necessary to secure the grid.”

Utilidata recently formed a strategic alliance with Raytheon to help utilities proactively detect, defend and respond to cyber threats.

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