WEST KINGSTON, R.I. — Power supply protection company American Power Conversion (APC) has appointed new members to its board of directors.
The two new members are John F. Keane, Sr., the founder and chairman of software developer Keane, Inc., and John G. Kassakian, a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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Keane will be a member of APC’s Audit Committee and Dr. Kassakian will be a member of APC’s Compensation and Stock Option Committee, the company said.
Keane founded his namesake company in 1965. Prior to that, he worked for IBM and was a marketing and management consultant for Arthur D. Little. A graduate of Harvard University and a recipient of a Harvard Business School MBA, he is a member of the Information Technology Association of America, where he has served as chairman, and is a member of the Mass High Tech Council. He is a member of the Board of the Center for Quality Management, and the Board of Overseers of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, as well as a director of PerkinElmer, Inc.
Kassakian, a professor at MIT since 1973, holds an undergraduate and multiple advanced degrees, including a Doctor of Science, from MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and won the IEEE Millennium Medal in 2000. Dr. Kassakian serves on the Board of Directors of Ault, Inc., a publicly traded company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is also a director of ISO New England Inc., the non-profit operating company for the New England electric utility network, and is on the Corporate Advisory Board of Tyco Electronics. Kassakian has contributed over 80 journal and conference papers in the area of power electronics and co-authored the book Principles of Power Electronics.
