alpha-En Corporation announced that veteran investment banker Jim Kilman has been appointed to its Board of Directors, expanding the board to four directors effective immediately. Mr. Kilman is Chief Executive Officer of KielStrand Capital. He retired earlier this year as Vice Chairman of Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley, having spent a total of 32 years in senior investment banking roles, including earlier stints at Goldman Sachs, ABN AMRO and PaineWebber.  Mr. Kilman will serve on the Audit and Compensation Committees of the Board.  He also serves on the boards of privately held Modular Space Corporation, and of privately held Lebenthal Holdings LLC. He serves on the board of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival in Cold Spring, NY, and on the Finance and Investments Committee of the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, NY.  He is Treasurer of his Yale College Class, and has previously been active on the Parents Association Boards at Bucknell University and Carleton College.