Capstone Turbine Corporation Names Robert C. Gleason As Senior Vice President, Program Management

CHATSWORTH, Calif., March 28, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Capstone Turbine Corporation ( www.capstoneturbine.com) (Nasdaq:CPST), the world's leading clean technology manufacturer of microturbine energy systems, today announced that it has named Robert C. Gleason to the position of Senior Vice President, Program Management effective April 6, 2011.

Darren Jamison, Capstone's President and Chief Executive Officer, announced the creation of the new position during the Company's February earnings call. Capstone created the new position to ensure the timely execution of the Company's critical cost reduction programs, reliability improvement initiatives and Department of Energy (DOE) programs.

The Company currently has three major new product development efforts underway: one for a Flexible Fuel microturbine to run on agricultural syngas, one for an externally fired solar powered microturbine and another to increase the output of the C200 microturbine to 250kW and utilize the new C250 as part of a new multistage high efficiency C370 product.

"Rob is a great addition to the Capstone Leadership Team and brings a wealth of experience and solid accomplishments in leading high tech program management organizations," stated Mr. Jamison. "Rob will be able to immediately contribute to the organization by prioritizing and driving all of our critical programs and ensuring their successful completion and on-time performance."

Prior to joining Capstone, Mr. Gleason spent more than 17 years in program management, project engineering and business development in high technology companies. Most recently, he worked for Parker Hannifin Corporation in Irvine, California and Kalamazoo, Michigan where he held management positions at several divisions and introduced the first Program Management Office within Parker Aerospace. Prior to joining Parker, he was a project engineer for Aero-Motive Company in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Mr. Gleason holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Western Michigan University and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP)® from the Project Management Institute.