Philip Mezey was appointed president and chief executive officer and named to Itron's board of directors on January 1, 2013. Mezey has served the company in several capacities during his career at Itron, most recently as chief operating officer for Itron's global Energy segment, with responsibility for the operations of Itron's electricity and gas businesses around the world. He also previously served as senior vice president and chief operating officer — Itron North America, group vice president and general manager, as well as senior vice president for Software Solutions. Upon Itron's acquisition of Silicon Energy in 2003, Mezey joined the company as managing director of Software Development for Itron's Energy Management Solutions group.

Prior to joining Silicon Energy in 2000 as vice president, Software Development, Mezey was a founding member and served 12 years with Indus, a provider of integrated asset and customer management software. Mezey earned his BA degree in history from the University of California, Berkeley.

Tom Deitrich has held the position of executive vice president and chief operating officer since October 2015. Deitrich has more than 20 years of experience in global operations at leading technology firms and has held a number of executive management positions where he led business-level strategies that transformed and significantly improved business results. He has extensive experience in product management, research and development, supply chain management and business development in several industries, including industrial equipment, telecommunications and semiconductors.

Before joining Itron, Deitrich was senior vice president and general manager for Digital Networking at Freescale Semiconductor. Prior to Freescale, Deitrich worked for Flextronics International, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications and General Electric Corporation.

Joan Hooper joined Itron as senior vice president and chief financial officer in June 2017. She has more than 30 years of experience in finance and accounting leadership roles. Most recently, Hooper served as the CFO of CHC Helicopter, a helicopter services company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia from 2011 to 2015. Prior to CHC, she held several finance executive positions at Dell, Inc. from 2003 to 2010, including vice president and CFO for its Global Public and Americas business units, vice president of corporate finance and chief accounting officer. Hooper also was CFO of FreeMarkets, a provider of procurement tools and services, which she helped take public in 1999. In addition, she held a variety of senior finance positions at AT&T.

Hooper holds a bachelor's degree in business administration with a concentration in finance from Creighton University. She also has an MBA with an emphasis in finance and international business from Northwestern University.

Sarah Hlavinka has more than 25 years of experience as a senior advisor and business executive with broad-based experience and legal background in the information technology, service, manufacturing and healthcare industries. She joined Itron in August 2018 as senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary where she oversees Itron's legal activities, from corporate governance to risk management.

Prior to joining Itron, Hlavinka served as executive vice president, general counsel and secretary at Xerox Corporation. Prior to Xerox, Hlavinka was as executive vice president, general counsel and secretary at ABM Industries Incorporated, a leading provider of integrated facility services, for nearly 10 years. Previously, she served in various legal roles in companies, including Fisher Scientific International, Benchmark Electronics, Hewlett Packard Company and Cooper Industries.

Hlavinka received her law degree from the University of Texas School of Law. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Texas A&M University. She serves on the Texas A&M University College of Liberal Arts Development Council.

Michel Cadieux has worked in human resources his entire career — more than 30 years — for global technology and manufacturing companies, including Betz Laboratories, the Hudson Bay Company, ING Bank of Canada, Advanced Micro Devices/ATI and Freescale. Before coming to lead Itron's worldwide HR department in 2014, he was senior vice president at Freescale Semiconductor in Austin, TX.

Throughout his career, Cadieux has demonstrated exceptional ability as an agent of change and a strategic business partner, helping companies to scale, grow and globalize.

At Freescale Semiconductor, Cadieux joined the company at a time when it was faced with serious financial pressure and he led the restructuring and reinvigorating of the workforce, which was a contributing factor in 2008 to a return to public markets and growth.

Cadieux holds a bachelor's degree in psychology and personnel, and a certificate in business administration from the University of Ottawa. He also completed the managing human resources program from Queen's University's Executive Development in Ontario, Canada.

Chuck McAtee was named vice president of Information Technology in May 2005 and named chief information officer in January 2006. He joined Itron in July 2004 as IT director of the electricity metering business. Before joining Itron, McAtee was director of IT for Schlumberger Electricity Metering in charge of operations in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, France and Taiwan. He spent 18 years with Schlumberger, serving in numerous roles including IT operations manager for its resource management services, which included water, electricity and gas businesses. During his tenure, he helped lead the standardization and implementation of common enterprise resource planning systems across the company. In addition to his management experience, he has served in various technical roles related to applications development, system architecture, database administration and system integration. McAtee earned his bachelor's in computer science with a concentration in business administration from Clemson University.

Ken Gianella was named Itron’s vice president of Investor Relations in August 2018. He has over 20 years of experience in various finance and operational roles as well as a deep understanding of critical infrastructure solutions for utilities and cities. Previously, Gianella held several senior finance roles at Silver Springs Networks, including interim CFO from June 2016 to March 2017. Gianella was an executive at smart city provider Sensity Systems Inc. and has also held roles at KLA-Tencor Corporation, Allegheny Energy, Inc. and Adelphia Business Solutions Inc. Gianella has a B.S. in business administration from Duquesne University and an M.B.A. from the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh.

Marina Donovan has more than 20 years of global technology marketing and public relations experience with a background in data security, networking and mobile. She joined Itron as vice president of global marketing & public affairs in January 2018. Prior to joining Itron, she was vice president of marketing for Silver Spring Networks, where Donovan led all aspects of outbound marketing including branding and corporate positioning, demand creation, events, product marketing, public relations and web properties. Prior to joining Silver Spring, she held executive marketing positions at IronKey by Imation, Syniverse, VeriSign and RSA Security. Donovan holds a Bachelor of Arts in public relations from San Jose State University.

Carl Porter was named president of Itron's Gas business line in November 2015. Since 2001, Porter has served as vice president of sales, marketing and delivery for Gas in North America. Porter has dedicated his career to developing innovative solutions to address utility challenges and ensure the safe and reliable delivery of natural gas.

Porter has more than 40 years of experience in the gas industry, working for 30 years at North American utility companies and serving as the president and CEO of a public utility prior to joining Itron.

Gavin van Tonder was named president of Itron's water business line in 2013. Originally from South Africa, van Tonder started his career as a process chemical engineer working for Sasol Oil Company. In 1989, he joined Schlumberger Oilfield Services in South Africa and has worked and lived in Italy, Scotland, Singapore, Vietnam, India, China, UK, Australia and Malaysia in the oil, gas, electricity and water industries. Since 2010, van Tonder has worked as Itron's vice president of global marketing and systems for water and heat. Gavin has more than 12 years of global experience in the water industry and has worked with a wide variety of oil companies and water utilities, providing solutions, systems and products to enhance their efficiency.

Mark de Vere White was named president of Itron's electricity business line in 2013. Most recently senior vice president, energy, North America, de Vere White was responsible for sales, product marketing, professional services, regulatory relations and customer operations. De Vere White has dedicated his career to working with utility and Fortune 1000 customers, focusing on sales, marketing, delivery and ongoing support of business critical operations and integrated enterprise solutions. He has led his teams with an unyielding drive to deliver customer value and success at all levels.

Prior to joining Itron, de Vere White was in charge of consulting, support, hosting and account management at Silicon Energy. Before Silicon Energy, de Vere White was one of the first employees at market-leading CRM software provider Kana, where he held executive positions overseeing account management, consulting and support teams. De Vere White started his career in marketing, consulting and direct marketing in New York City.

De Vere White received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania, graduating Summa Cum Laude/Phi Beta Kappa.

Catriona Fallon brings more than 20 years of finance, investor relations, and corporate strategy and development experience to her role at Itron, which she assumed as part of the Silver Spring Networks acquisition in January 2018. At Silver Spring Networks, she was Chief Financial Officer, and prior to that served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Marin Software Incorporated, an enterprise marketing software company. Prior to joining Marin Software, Catriona was the Vice President of Finance and Chief of Staff to the CFO for Cognizant Technology Solutions, a business and technology services company. She has also held several leadership positions at Hewlett-Packard Company, including Vice President of Strategy and Financial Planning, Director of Investor Relations, and Director of Strategy and Corporate Development. Catriona also served as an equity analyst covering media and technology companies at Citigroup Investment Research and has held roles with Piper Jaffray & Company, McKinsey & Company, and Oracle Corporation. Catriona received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A. in Economics from UCLA.

Simon Pontin was named Chief Technology Officer in January 2011. Pontin joined Itron (then Schlumberger Electricity) in 1989 after graduating from Aston University in England with a degree in electromechanical engineering. He showed natural leadership in his first role, participating in the design of various solid-state metering developments in the United Kingdom. In 2006, he took the helm in developing Itron's smart grid solution, OpenWay®. Today, as CTO of Itron, Pontin is uniquely equipped to ensure that Itron's technology helps utilities solve some of their most pressing challenges.

Bruce Douglas was named senior vice president and general manager of Software and Services in January 2015. Douglas is responsible for architecting Itron's software and services strategy, and for integrating this important aspect of our business into Itron’s existing electricity, gas and water solutions. He works closely with the Electricity, Gas and Water businesses to integrate new Software and Service offerings as value-added components of the Itron solution portfolio. Under his guidance, Itron is broadening its technology portfolio with value-added software and services, and deliver true business outcomes to our utility customers around the globe.

Douglas brings with him over two decades of insight at both global, multi-national corporations and smaller start-ups. His entrepreneurial mindset and international, strategic and customer-centric experience has helped him build and grow software- and services-related businesses at CIBER Inc., Oracle, Sun Microsystems and Neogent Inc., among others.

Sharelynn Moore has more than 20 years of experience in the energy and technology sectors. In July 2017, she was named senior vice president of networked solutions. In this role, she is responsible for Itron’s networking platforms and smart cities strategy, globally.

Previously, Moore served as vice president of global marketing and public affairs. She has also served in a variety of product- and marketing-related roles during her more than 15 years at Itron. In previous assignments, Moore focused on the strategy, management and marketing of Itron's Automated Meter Reading (AMR) solutions, network technologies and enterprise meter data management software.

Prior to joining Itron, Moore held marketing and product management roles at Avista Corporation and Micron. She holds a bachelor's degree in business from the University of Idaho and an MBA with an emphasis in IT from Gonzaga University.

Greg Richards assumed the role of senior vice president of Product Development at Itron in March 2018. In this role, Richards oversees a global team of highly skilled engineers, architects, program managers and software developers with a common goal of bringing high quality products to Itron’s customers faster and at a superior total cost of ownership. Previously, Richards served at Itron’s vice president of DevOps.

With his nearly 30 years of experience in the technology industry, Richards is leading the development of innovative new solutions and services that will help cities around the world manage and use water and energy more resourcefully.

Prior to joining Itron, Richards served as vice president of Americas Technology Services for Hewlett Packard. Richards joined Hewlett Packard in 2011 after holding leadership positions at Oracle/Sun, including managing director of Professional Services for the Asia Pacific region.

Richards holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Montana State University and a Masters Certificate in project management from The George Washington University.