Board of Directors
AMSC's Board of Directors is comprised of six outside directors and one internal member. Greg Yurek serves as the Board chairman and John Vander Sande serves as lead director.
- Audit Committee
John Wood, Chairman
David Oliver
John Vander Sande
- Compensation Committee
Peter Crisp, Chairman
Richard Drouin
John Vander Sande
Vikram Budhraja
- Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee
Richard Drouin, Chairman
Peter Crisp
John Wood
Gregory J. Yurek
Gregory J. Yurek, age 61, co-founded American Superconductor in 1987 and has been chief executive officer since December 1989, president since June 2005 and chairman of the Board since October 1991. Dr. Yurek also served as president from March 1989 to February 2004, as vice president and chief technical officer from August 1988 until March 1989 and as chief operating officer from March 1989 until December 1989. Prior to joining American Superconductor, Dr. Yurek was a professor of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT for 12 years. He is a director of Nanosys, Inc. Dr. Yurek has been a director of American Superconductor since 1987.
John W. Wood , Jr.
John W. Wood, Jr., age 64, served as chief executive officer of Analogic Corporation, a leading designer and manufacturer of medical imaging and security systems, from 2003 through 2006, and is currently a consultant. Prior to joining Analogic, he held senior executive positions over a 22-year career at Thermo Electron Corporation. Most recently, Mr. Wood served as president of Peek Ltd., a division of Thermo Electron Corporation, and as a senior vice president of the parent company. He previously served as president and chief executive officer of Thermedics, a subsidiary of Thermo Electron. Mr. Wood is a director of ESCO Corporation. Mr. Wood has been a director of American Superconductor since December 2006.
John B. Vander Sande
John B. Vander Sande, age 64, co-founded American Superconductor. He is the Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Material Science, emeritus, at MIT specializing in the microstructure of materials and was associate dean and acting dean of engineering at MIT from 1992 to 1999. He was founding executive director of the Cambridge-MIT Institute from 1999 to January 2003. Dr. Vander Sande has been a director of American Superconductor since 1990.
David R. Oliver, Jr.
David R. Oliver, Jr., age 66, has been executive vice president of European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company North America (EADS NA) since January 2008. Mr. Oliver served as chief operating officer of the defense division of EADS NA for most of the four years preceding January 2008 except when he was running the EADS portion of the capture effort for the Air Force Tanker program (one of the largest Defense programs ever completed). Before joining EADS NA, Mr. Oliver was stationed in Baghdad as Director of Management and Budget for the Coalition Forces. Prior to that, he served as the United States’ Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology. Mr. Oliver also previously held management positions at both Westinghouse Electric and Northrop Grumman. In the Navy, he commanded both diesel and nuclear submarines as well as two submarine groups in the Cold War. His last Navy appointment was as Principal Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition. Rear Admiral (retired) Oliver’s military decorations include the Defense and Navy Distinguished Service Medals as well as six awards of the Legion of Merit. Mr. Oliver has been a director of American Superconductor since September 2006.
Richard Drouin
Richard Drouin, age 76, is counsel at McCarthy Tétrault, a Canadian law firm. Until December 2006, he was chairman of Abitibi Consolidated, the world’s largest newsprint manufacturer. Mr. Drouin was the chairman and chief executive officer of Hydro-Quebec, a public electric utility based in Canada, from April 1988 to September 1995. He is a director of Gesca and President's Choice Bank, chairman of the board of Stonebridge Financial and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation. Mr. Drouin has been a director of American Superconductor since 1996.
Peter O. Crisp
Peter O. Crisp, age 75, served as vice chairman of Rockefeller Financial Services, Inc. from December 1997 until September 2004. From 1969 to 1997, he was a general partner of Venrock Associates, a venture capital firm based in New York. Mr. Crisp served as a director of United States Trust Corporation until August 2004. He is currently a director of several private companies. Mr. Crisp has been a director of American Superconductor since 1987.
Vikram S. Budhraja
Vikram S. Budhraja, age 60, has been president of Electric Power Group, LLC, a Pasadena, California-based consulting firm that provides management and strategic consulting services to the electric power industry, since January 2000. From 1977 to January 2000, Mr. Budhraja served in several key senior management positions at Edison International, the parent company of Southern California Edison, including: president of Edison Technology Solutions; senior vice president and head of the Power Grid Business Unit of Southern California Edison; and vice president of System Planning, Fuels and Operations of Southern California Edison. He chairs the Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions (CERTS) and worked with the U.S.-Canadian Power Systems Outage Task Force that was formed to investigate the root causes of the August 14, 2003 power blackout in the Northeast. Mr. Budhraja has previously served as a director of several organizations, including the California Independent System Operator Corporation and SoftSwitching Technologies. Mr. Budhraja has been a director of American Superconductor since March 2004.
