George Flammer
Chairman of the Board, Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer

George Flammer served as the vice president of engineering and chief scientist at Silver Spring Networks, leading the team that created the Smart Grid architecture and products which have been adopted by the public utilities market worldwide.  George also served as CTO of Metricom in the early 90’s where he led the development of UtiliNet, the first viable Smart Grid solution that evolved into Ricochet, the world’s first large-scale wireless internet service with a market valuation of $10 billion. George holds numerous patents in wireless communications.