Our Team
Sanjay Kumar, Senior Principal
Sanjay Kumar is a Senior Principal with Siemens’ Industrial IoT practice. His career started with plant automation division of EDS and progressed through implementation of several manufacturing, quality and supply chain systems. He led the Verizon…
Dave McCarthy, Research Director
Dave McCarthy is a Research Director within IDC’s worldwide infrastructure practice focusing on edge strategies. In this role, he provides both qualitative and quantitative analysis of distributed computing paradigms that extend beyond centralized datacenter and cloud…
Troy Wilson, Marketing and Strategy for Siemens Digital Industries Software
Troy Wilson has given many presentations on the subject of IoT and Cloud solutions for businesses. He is a 4 year veteran of the automotive industry. He is the team marketing and strategy manager for Siemens…
Pat Boland, Co-Founder & Managing Director
Pat Boland is a founder and joint Managing Director of ANCA, a world leading manufacturer of CNC tool grinders. Mr. Boland has made an invaluable contribution to the Australian manufacturing sector for over 40 years, leading…
Florian Raschbichler, Head of Support
Florian serves as the head of the HiveMQ support team with years of first-hand experience overcoming challenges in achieving reliable, scalable, and secure IoT messaging for enterprise customers.
Ryan Ayers
Ryan Ayers has consulted a number of Fortune 500 companies within multiple industries including information technology and big data. After earning his MBA in 2010, Ayers also began working with start-up companies and aspiring entrepreneurs, with…
John Livingston, CEO
John Livingston is the CEO of Verve. He leads Verve's mission to protect the world’s infrastructure. He brings 20+ years of experience from McKinsey & Co. advising large companies in strategy and operations. John's committed to…
Kevin Niemiller, Solutions Architect
Kevin is a Solutions Architect at Losant. He uses his factory floor background in automation and systems integration to develop the Losant platform by connecting new software, hardware, and cloud products. When he’s not working, Kevin…
Andy Schmidt
Andy has been in the online content world for over 10 years as a freelance copywriter, technical writer and translator, covering different topics - finance, energy and also sustainability. What is he doing when not writing?…
Jim Yost, Manufacturing Solutions Consultant, IFM
Jim focuses on partnering with organizations to turn “IoT” and “Industry 4.0” concepts into tangible business outcomes. Leveraging a decade of experience with Operational and Information technologies, he works with major manufacturers to identify opportunities for…
David Goddard, Head of Digitalization
David Goddard is Head of Digitalization for Hitachi ABB Power Grids and is responsible for driving the company’s digital evolution. He was previously with Cisco Systems in various executive leadership roles, most recently being responsible for the global…
Bill Bither, CoFounder and CEO
Bill is an experienced software entrepreneur, and the founder of Atalasoft, an enterprise software company that sold to Kofax (now Lexmark). Prior to Atalasoft he worked in aerospace manufacturing.