Itron is the world's leading end-to-end solution provider to the global energy and water industries. We serve more than 8,000 customers across 130 countries and provide the critical knowledge, insight and technology that enable the responsible management, delivery and use of our precious water and energy resources. At Itron, we are dedicated to supplying flexible products and services for measuring, optimizing and analyzing utility information.

Itron is a trusted partner to the global utility industry—and through acquisitions and mergers, has been for more than 100 years. Throughout our rich history, we've designed products using our innovative technologies and extensive industry experience to deliver solutions that solve significant business challenges. Over the decades, Itron's innovation has transformed the way world-wide water and energy utilities manage their resources, streamline operations and serve their customers. Today, by combining high-end metering, advanced communications, powerful software tools and consulting expertise, Itron is uniquely positioned to help utilities meet the significant challenges facing the industry—from strains on supply and aging infrastructure to increasing populations and consumer demand—these issues require real solutions rooted in reality.

To help solve these unique industry challenges, Itron offers new thinking and proven products so that utilities around the globe can deliver fresh water and reliable energy to customers, while also engaging and empowering consumers to control their usage and costs. Itron's broad product portfolio includes electricity, gas, water and heat meters; data collection and communication systems, including, automated meter reading (AMR), advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), smart grid and prepaid metering solutions; meter data management and related software applications; project management, installation, and consulting services. Itron delivers strong value to our customers today, and our solutions will continue to ensure resource sustainability for generations to come.

Just as the challenges facing utilities in today’s marketplace are infinitely variable, so are our products and solutions. Itron offers utilities a mix of products to help them meet the pressing business challenges of today and tomorrow. Applying what we’ve learned from working on the leading edge of utility innovation for the past 100 years, we are building on our experience, global presence and breadth of solutions to help utilities shape their future – a smarter future.

Some of our key capabilities include:

• Intelligent electricity, gas and water meters, manufactured by Itron to reliably and accurately measure and provide usage information
• Data collection and communication systems, ranging from automated meter reading using handheld computers or mobile collectors mounted in vehicles to advanced metering network infrastructure to efficiently and precisely collect and transmit meter information
• Smart grid infrastructure and applications, modernizing the electricity grid to support distribution automation and renewable energy sources, and enable integration of electric vehicles and solar resources
• Prepayment solutions, designed with customer control and utility cash flow in mind, pre-paid metering provides the balance between customer use and electricity payment
• Meter data management and related software applications and analytics, providing robust and sophisticated tools to turn meter data into actionable information
• Professional services, offering knowledge, resources, experience and customer focus to help our customers install and operate their systems to gain maximum system performance and return on investment

From hardware and software to services and support, the breadth and depth of our portfolio is unrivaled in the industry, spanning the entire energy and water value chain. Regardless of the business challenge—whether it’s collecting more detailed and timely meter data or intelligently managing and analyzing it—Itron has a highly integrated suite of products and services to help utilities of all sizes and in all locations of the world prosper and thrive.

To know more about Itron, start here: www.itron.com.

Philip Mezey, Itron President and CEO

Philip Mezey was appointed president and chief executive officer and named to Itron’s board of directors on January 1, 2013. Mezey has served the company in several capacities during his career at Itron, most recently as chief operating officer for Itron’s global Energy segment, with responsibility for the operations of Itron’s electricity and gas businesses around the world. He also previously served as senior vice president and chief operating officer – Itron North America, group vice president and general manager, as well as senior vice president for Software Solutions. Upon Itron’s acquisition of Silicon Energy in 2003, Mezey joined the company as managing director of Software Development for Itron’s Energy Management Solutions group.

Prior to joining Silicon Energy in 2000 as vice president, Software Development, Mezey was a founding member and served 12 years with Indus, a provider of integrated asset and customer management software. Mezey earned his BA degree in history from the University of California, Berkeley.