Thursday, July 07, 2011

Clean Energy Investor Alert; Recent Frankfurt Listings; City Wind Mills Ltd. (CYW.F) hires Chief Executive Officer of its U.S. subsidiary

MANCHESTER, United Kingdom - July 7, 2011 (Investorideas.com Newsire) - City Wind Mills, Ltd. (Frankfurt: CYW) (www.citywindmills.com) today announced that Roland J. Bopp joined the company, effective May 23rd 2011, as Chief Executive Officer of its U.S. subsidiary, City Windmills Inc. Mr. Bopp is also a member of the Advisory Board of the parent organization. The appointment of Mr. Bopp is a strategic response to City Windmills� expansion into the important North American small electric wind turbine market in the government and commercial sectors.
Mr. Bopp has broad senior corporate and operating experience in premier technology/ engineering, electronic systems, renewable energy and telecom service organizations. He brings more than 20 years of executive leadership in major as well as early stage and emerging organizations in North America, Europe and Asia. Roland Bopp has a proven track record of building rapidly growing businesses, increasing profitability and creating shareholder value in several industry sectors and under various business conditions.
His most recent position was Chairman, President & CEO of the Americas for Deutsche Telekom Inc., a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom of Germany. Over a period of three years he led the successful expansion of the business via both organic growth and through acquisitions. Prior to that, he was managing director of Mannesmann, a $ 20 billion engineering and telecom service company. While at Mannesmann North America, Mr. Bopp was instrumental in expanding the business from $ 300 million to over $ 3.0 billion over a fifteen year time span.
"Mr. Bopp brings tremendous business acumen and strong contacts in government and industry to this position. His successful business development and execution abilities are well known in the industry" said Peter Kazimirski, CEO of City Windmills . "His understanding of the industry and customer requirements is welcomed and should lead to a significant increase in the company�s global footprint."
"I am very pleased to be joining City Windmills' senior management team at this strategic moment of the company and am looking forward to executing the company�s business strategy in North America." said Roland Bopp.
About City Windmills Ltd.
City Windmills integrates the two notions of powerful energy production from wind and proximity to the end user. Blending the concepts of aerodynamics, architecture and advertisement, City Windmills are electric turbines wind designed to be attached to buildings or in their vicinity and produce green energy on the spot rather than miles away as is the case for large wind farms. With City Windmills, buildings and other structures will not only consume electricity, but produce it on-site. With City Windmills, corporations now have a system to produce green energy, reduce their electricity bill and advertise their concern about the environment.

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