Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Vycon Appoints New Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director

Yorba Linda, CA -- The Board of Vycon, Inc, the AIM listed, designer and manufacturer of high-speed flywheel based energy storage systems, is pleased to announce that Craig T. Glynn has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer and as an Executive Director of Vycon, with immediate effect. Mr. Glynn succeeds Dennis Whittler, who is retiring and has stepped down as a director of Vycon. Craig Glynn brings to Vycon twenty-three years of extensive hands-on experience in financial management and reporting, financial and strategic planning and mergers and acquisitions. Craig most recently served as Chief Financial Officer for Hilex Poly Co. LLC (‘Hilex’), a plastics manufacturer with annual sales of $500 million, eleven manufacturing facilities and approximately 2,500 employees. Craig was instrumental in the re-capitalisation of Hilex, with private equity backing, and the subsequent purchase of the company’s largest domestic competitor, financed primarily with debt. Link.