Bill Simons
VP, Sales and Marketing

Bill has over 30 years of multi-tiered, sales and marketing leadership experience in the electric utility, computer, and telecommunications industries. Prior to joining tenKsolar, Bill led Cannon Technologies’ Sales and Marketing group as it grew sales from $20 million to over $100 million. Following Cooper Industries acquisition of Cannon, Bill headed New Business Development for Cooper’s Energy Automation Group, helping to define and position Cooper for the Smart Grid. Over his career, Bill has led numerous domestic and international sales and marketing organizations for Amperion and Enikia in the Broadband over PowerLine (BPL) industry, for Ariel and Mizar in the Digital Signal Processing (DSP) systems industry, Ciprico in computer storage and disk array industry, and ADC in telecommunications. Bill received his BA in Mathematics from DePauw University where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and earned an MBA from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College.