VYCON Appoints 19-Year IT Sales Veteran as Director of Enterprise Accounts

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class="image-left"/>LOS ANGELES – June 20, 2011 — VYCON (www.vyconenergy.com), the designer and manufacturer of environmentally friendly, high-speed energy storage flywheel systems, today announced the appointment of Erik W. Brumbaugh as the Director of Enterprise Accounts. Brumbaugh most recently was a consultant/enterprise account executive at VISI Incorporated, where he helped lead the company's growth in its Data Center and Cloud service offerings.

As the Director of Enterprise Accounts, Brumbaugh will be responsible for promoting VYCON's VDC and VDC-XE Direct Connect DC power systems to Fortune 1000 companies as well as original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). VYCON's clean energy storage flywheel technology offers a greener and more reliable alternative for battery-based uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs) in mission-critical environments such as data centers, medical facilities, broadcasting studios, industrial plants and casinos.

During his 19-year career, Brumbaugh has held key sales and management positions with power quality leaders such as Venture Computer Systems, All Systems Installation, and APC by Schneider Electric - Critical Power and Cooling Services. "I look forward to bringing new clients onboard and expanding VYCON's business with strategic key accounts," commented Erik Brumbaugh. "Many data center and facility managers are eager to meet sustainability goals and VYCON's VDC technology is a reliable, cost-effective way to not only reduce a facilities' carbon footprint, but to maximize reliability and uptime while achieving a very attractive return on investment."

"We are excited to bring Erik on as our director of enterprise accounts," commented Dann McKeraghan, vice president sales for VYCON. "With his extensive experience and background in the IT and data center market and success in working with enterprise accounts, Erik will be a great asset to VYCON as we move forward on our growth plans."

Brumbraugh holds an MBA from the University of Saint Thomas, St Paul, Minnesota.

About VYCON

VYCONis an innovator in the design and manufacturing of technologically advanced flywheel energy storage systems that enable a highly reliable, cost-effective and "green" energy storage solution for a variety of applications. The company's REGEN flywheel systems, used in regenerative power applications such as container cargo handling crane applications and light electric rail, reduce power and energy costs to port and rail operators as well as provide a reduction in greenhouse gasses.

Key to VYCON's flywheel superiority and dependability is its ability to discharge and recharge very quickly when called upon during power outages. VYCON's fleet of VDC, VDC-XE and REGEN systems have logged a record million-plus discharge and recharge cycles –in very demanding applications that oftentimes call on the VYCON systems to discharge and recharge every two minutes. For more information on VYCON's innovative green power solutions, contact VYCON at 714-386-3800 or visit VYCON's web site at:www.vyconenergy.com.

MEDIA INQUIRES:

PJ Jennings
Jennings and Associates Communications, Inc
pj@jandacommunications.com
(760) 431-7466

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