Apache Storm and vertica error

I am trying to use Apache Storm inorder to push data onto vertica using VerticaJDBC driver,

 but facing the following error as below, ERROR org.apache.zookeeper.server.NIOServerCnxnFactory - Thread Thread[main,5,main] died java.lang.RuntimeException: java.io.NotSerializableException: com.vertica.jdbc.VerticaConnectionImpl at backtype.storm.utils.Utils.serialize(Utils.java:81) ~[storm-core-0.9.2-incubating.jar:0.9.2-incubating] at backtype.storm.topology.TopologyBuilder.createTopology(TopologyBuilder.java:106) ~[storm-core-0.9.2-incubating.jar:0.9.2-incubating] at com.wordcount.example.HelloStorm.main(HelloStorm.java:21) ~[bin/:na] Caused by: java.io.NotSerializableException: com.vertica.jdbc.VerticaConnectionImpl at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject0(ObjectOutputStream.java:1183) ~[na:1.7.0_51] at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.defaultWriteFields(ObjectOutputStream.java:1547) ~[na:1.7.0_51] at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeSerialData(ObjectOutputStream.java:1508) ~[na:1.7.0_51] at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeOrdinaryObject(ObjectOutputStream.java:1431) ~[na:1.7.0_51] at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject0(ObjectOutputStream.java:1177) ~[na:1.7.0_51] at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject(ObjectOutputStream.java:347) ~[na:1.7.0_51] at backtype.storm.utils.Utils.serialize(Utils.java:77) ~[storm-core-0.9.2-incubating.jar:0.9.2-incubating] ... 2 common frames omitted .

Is there any way to change the code of this  com.vertica.jdbc.VerticaConnectionImpl to implement Serializable.

or any other work around or have anybody tried to do the same??