Mr Hutter replaces Gary Zuiderveen, who has been named to the new position of vice president of financial reporting and will continue to serve as the company’s controller and principal accounting officer.

Sidney Hinton, president and CEO of PowerSecure International, said: We are fortunate to have attracted an individual of Chris’s caliber. While at ADVO, he successfully undertook a variety of projects of ever increasing scope and exhibited an extraordinary range of talents, not least a proven ability to address the interests and sensibilities of Wall Street.