GreenBeat 2009, The Conference on the Smart Grid

Pilgrim Beart is Chief Executive Officer of AlertMe. He is responsible for strategic leadership of the business. Pilgrim Beart has 20 years experience in ground breaking, high-technology companies and has founded three businesses as well as holding senior roles at a number of other companies. Most recently he was Vice President of Research & Development at Splashpower where he was responsible for creating and protecting the core technology of the wireless power company. After graduating with a degree in Computer Engineering from City University, London, Pilgrim Beart began his career in Oxford, designing computer boards for Solid State Logic. After six years working in Silicon Valley in the 1990’s for the likes of Atari and Chromatic Research (now AMD), in 1999 Pilgrim Beart headed back to his home town of Cambridge. Here he founded two companies: activeRF Ltd., an early implementer of asset-location systems, using a variety of short range RF technologies and antenova Ltd., a manufacturer of innovative mass market antenna technology that provides WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity to mobiles and laptops.