Paula Camporaso

Ms Paula Camporaso became Athena’s CIO in January 2019, later taking on the role as VP of Customer Success . Ms Camporaso has more than 25 years of experience in High Tech Manufacturing as an IT Leader and Enterprise Architect.

Paula’s IT / Industry experience includes an array of High Tech Industries including Manufacturing, Cloud Services and Consumer Products companies. Notable companies, where Paula was a VP of IT/ CIO include; LinkedIn, GoPro, View Dynamic Glass, Solyndra, Lockheed Martin and EMC. In said roles, Paula frequently functioned also in a Customer facing Sales capacity. From selling Technology Services, Requirements collection, Software Development and Support of same.

Beyond leading IT and Factory Systems, Paula has been the lead architect of multiple Product Innovations. Most noteworthy are; the development of the first ETL in 1998. This product (Commerceroute) was later acquired by Microsoft and launched as MS Biztalk in 2000. Likewise, the reengineering of a Tier 3 MES Product (Eyelit) to become a Tier 1 Industry 4.0 capable Application, enabling true automated manufacturing with multiple interoperable factories and zero downtime tolerance.