In addition to serving on Apparent’s board, Mr. William Vogel is a serial entrepreneur in renewables, smart grid and demand response. He was the founder and CEO of Trilliant Inc., a network that integrates real-time distribution networks with smart metering, demand response and customer information management.  Trilliant is owned by a consortium of investors of which include ABB, GE, Mission Point Capital and Vantage Point Ventures.  His areas of interest and area of expertise is renewable smart grids, or the unified management of distributed energy resources and demand response via standards-based control networks.