Our Leadership

Frank H. Kleinhammes has over 30 years of executive level technical management and leadership experience in start-up and high growth companies.  He served 15 years as a Senior Advisor for Data Engineering and Data Science for the Energy Planning division at Southern California Edison.  Prior to SCE, Frank served in executive management roles including Vice President of Emerging Technologies for Tickets.com, Senior VP of Business Development at Q4Bis and Vice President of Creative Services for ETM Entertainment Network.  Frank founded IVidea, Inc. in 1996 and is the creator and inventor of Media Styler, a multimedia software that won best product award by Microsoft in 1995. Frank has a unique combination of technical knowledge and business acumen.  He had active roles in structuring and closing company funding initiatives (series A, B, IPO/acquisition) and has an impressive record of defining and implementing business development goals, strategies and tactics.  In his last three positions, he participated in the development of strategic plans and business models that positively influenced major product and service offerings.  Frank studied Economics and Business Engineering at the RWTH University in Aachen, Germany before he came to the United States in 1984.