e5 Global Innovations
e5 Global Innovations develops simple, plug and play electronic Home Automation products that enhance any home environment.
- Stage Prototype Ready
- Industry Consumer Products
- Location Bethesda, MD, US
- Currency USD
- Founded September 2012
- Employees 1
- Website e5gi.com
Company Summary
e5 Global Innovations develops simple, plug-and-play electronic Home Automation products that enhance any home environment. Home Automation is a multi-billion dollar industry, experiencing exponential growth. Our family of devices can be used by anyone with access to a wall switch or an outlet with no learning curve. Customers who know how to plug a device into a wall outlet can use all of e5’s devices safely, easily, and effectively. This simplicity is our innovation.
The initial set of e5 products were conceived as retrofit devices for new and existing residential homes and apartments. We solve a common dilemma: expanding the control and function of the wall switch. These devices are not nice-to-haves but must-haves because they provide consumers the freedom, control and expandability of their analog wall switches – a technology that has largely gone unchanged since the introduction of electricity in the home. We developed these devices to address three key issues:
1) appeal to a broad consumer base,
2) offer simple solutions that don’t require maintenance or connection to network systems, and
3) offer solutions that use existing wall switches and power wiring in the home or apartment without the need for invasive renovation.
Very simply stated, our devices make Home Automation easy.
Team
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Founder & PresidentDarren W. Fritsch, PE is the Founder and President of e5 Global Innovations, with an extensive background in commercial building systems, home remodeling, and managing highly creative teams to provide complex solutions. His career began in the Architecture and Engineering field and his passion and acute business sense has developed elegant solutions for the built environment and the systems that enhance our daily lives.
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Andrew GolubFinanceAndrew Golub, CFO, is an experienced, hands-on strategic finance and operational executive with both a professional service and corporate environments background. His specialties include financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and modeling with solid managerial accounting oversight, tested cash management and solid presentation/communication ability.
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General CounselMr. Gohari spends his professional life at the intersection of capital markets, law and technology. As an entrepreneur, investor and lawyer, he's been involved with many early stage and middle market companies. In addition to corporate development, equity investments and placements, he is also a strategic advisor successfully guiding private sector clients and portfolio companies through early growth stages.
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