Ms Kass, a seasoned corporate and strategic planning and international business executive, brings over 25 years in networking and infrastructure data center global operations experience to this newly created role.

During her career, Ms Kass was the COO for eBay International, launching eBay into international markets. She has also held senior corporate, product marketing, and worldwide business operations positions at Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard.

Bill Vogel, CEO of Trilliant, said: Our appointment of Susanna reinforces Trilliant’s commitment to responsive customer operations through unified sales, marketing, field, and information service delivery. Susanna will manage North America as well as international business groups as regionally centered business operations are established in a global smart grid market.