Apogee Interactive Inc. Expands Business Team; Craig Frank and Eric Shewbridge Join Senior Staff.

ATLANTA -- Apogee Interactive Inc., a leader in strategic online solutions for the energy industry, today announced the expansion of its senior technical staff and client services team with the addition of Craig Frank as senior applications engineer and Eric Shewbridge as regional account manager.

"We're experiencing continued growth in the application of our Web-based tools by utilities looking to strengthen their customer self-service options, improve customer satisfaction, and increase end-use energy efficiency," said Susan Gilbert, president of Apogee Interactive Inc. "We're delighted to add the caliber and depth of technical and industry expertise Craig and Eric bring to our new product development and client services," Gilbert said.

As senior applications engineer, Craig Frank will advance the development of Apogee's next generation of analysis engines behind the company's online energy management, data presentment and demand side management applications. Frank brings to Apogee nearly 25 years of energy industry experience, starting at one of the largest investor-owned utilities in the U.S., FPL (Florida Power & Light. NYSE: FPL). His responsibilities there spanned energy efficiency, power quality and electrotechnology programs as well as key account management and marketing program development. He later became energy services manager for the Pennsylvania Rural Electric Association and Allegheny Electric Cooperative. Following that, he founded Frank Solutions, Inc., a consulting firm for cooperatives and industrial firms, and for the past four years has served as marketing services manager for Central Georgia EMC.

Frank is a graduate of Auburn University in Industrial Management and Information Systems, holds a master's in business administration from the University of South Florida and is a member of the Association of Energy Engineers and Association of Energy Services Professionals.

As regional account manager, Eric Shewbridge will lead Apogee's client service activities in the mid-states region, with an emphasis on investor-owned utility accounts. After completing five years of service in the U.S. Navy supervising power plant operations and maintenance on a nuclear powered submarine, Shewbridge began his career in the energy industry as an engineering consultant to investor-owned utilities that own and operate nuclear power plants. Among the companies he worked for was a large investor-owned utility, Duke Engineering & Services (a division of Duke Energy, NYSE: DUK).

During Shewbridge's 18 years as an energy consultant, he served as a senior engineer, project engineer and project manager for multiple power plant operations, training, and modifications projects. Shewbridge then joined Parsons Corporation as project manager and for seven years directed large facility design and construction project teams for various infrastructure initiatives for BellSouth Telecommunications, the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Postal Service, and Fulton County (metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia) Public School System.

Shewbridge holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy and is a registered professional engineer in Georgia.

APOGEE Interactive, Inc. (www.apogee.net) is a leading provider of online solutions for the energy industry. Headquartered in Atlanta, Apogee has helped pioneer interactive media and online applications at more than 300 utilities nationwide since 1994. Today, Apogee's Web-based energy efficiency, energy education and energy management content and tools reach millions of energy consumers daily. The company's clients include a wide range of investor-owned, municipal and cooperative utilities such as American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP), Entergy (NYSE: ETR), FPL (NYSE: FPL), TVA, LCEC and Jackson EMC. The company also provides eLearning systems, call center programs and demand response platforms to utilities and their trade associations.