ICP Solar welcomed a new and important member today. He’s David Johnston, former VP Operations at Ballard Power and Chief Operating Officer at Ballard’s Stationary Power Division. “DJ” (as I have nicknamed him) has led many energy companies operations and has joined ICP as Chief Operating Officer. He’ll be taking over all operational aspects of the company while I am freed to be involved in financing, innovation, corporate vision and “helicopter” views, which as CEO I need to be. A CEO can’t drive the vision if he’s stuck on the ground floor. I need to be on top of the ladder seeing what lies ahead for our company. Freedom is what comes to mind when I describe my feeling today when it was announced internally at HQ. David is part of the “A-team” I am building to deliver on our mission to be “The customer’s choice in power solutions based on solar technologies”. And now I can write as many solar blogs as I can think of because that’s what I will be relegated to? Well maybe not so fast..
Coincidentally, ICP received confirmation today of its largest OEM contract ever. We took on a “goliath” competitor. Yet our innovation, value-proposition and quality-management team were our “modern day sling” which won the customer over. Team ICP, the best is yet to come…
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