Management Team

John P. Yeros, Chief Executive Officer and Board Member

John P. Yeros, Chief Executive Officer and Board Member

Mr. Yeros was named CEO of IGSolutions in June of 2009 after successfully completing a comprehensive business/market analysis of the Smart Grid market sector on behalf of both FirstEnergy (FE) and First Communications, Inc. (FC). After a thorough review of the findings, implications and assessment of the potential market scope for smart grid-related products and services, FE and FC decided to establish IGSolutions under Mr. Yeros’ strategic leadership.

For the past twenty years Mr. Yeros has devoted his business energies to various segments of the high technology arena, including healthcare, Internet-related software development and computer hardware manufacturing and service delivery. He was Founder, Chairman& CEO of Medix Resources from 1988 until 2000; in this capacity he transformed a start-up healthcare software development firm into a public entity with a market cap of $450 million. With a similar entrepreneurial flair, Mr. Yeros founded HyperSpace Communications in 2001 and completed a public offering in 2004; during his tenure the company acquired Idaho-based MPC Computers, Gateway’s Professional Services Division and, as the MPC Corp., eventually had more than a thousand employees and $500 million in revenue by 2007.

Prior to undertaking these varied entrepreneurial ventures Mr. Yeros had a highly successful career in the securities industry starting as a account executive with Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith in New York in 1977 and culminating in key management roles with E. F. Hutton, Hanifen Imhoff Inc. and B. C. Christopher Securities where he last served as Regional VP was overseeing three offices in the Rocky Mountain Region before launching Medix Resources in 1988.

Academically, Mr. Yeros has a B. S. degree in education from Wichita State University.