GreenBeat 2009, The Conference on the Smart Grid

Ray Bell is the CEO and Founder of Grid Net, a hardware and software company that provides open, interoperable, policy-based network management software and WiMAX product designs for the Smart Grid. Ray Bell has over twenty-five years of experience from Oracle Corporation, Cisco Systems, SmartPipes (a company he founded) and Computer Power, where he has served in many advanced engineering, product development, product management and senior management roles. He has an extensive technical background and many years of expertise in designing, developing & deploying advanced networking management and control systems, security infrastructures, and distributed computing systems products.

Ray Bell is an expert in the fields of advanced metering, networking, internet protocols, security technologies, relational systems, web services, and he has significant experience in complex object oriented design & modeling and schema development. Ray Bell currently serves as the Chairman of OpenAMI, an open standards initiative in the utility industry for advanced metering and demand response systems. Ray Bell is presently a member of the IEC TC57 WG14 and IEC TC13 WG14 and he has made significant contributions to the DMTF and IETF during his career.