Tom Wohlwender

Tom Wohlwender has a diverse work experience spanning over several years. Tom has held various roles in sales and business development in the industrial automation and IIoT sectors.

Starting in 1994, Tom founded and served as the Sales Director of the MES Enterprise Platform at Production IQ, where they managed the company's Enterprise MES software product. Tom was responsible for sales and marketing, focusing on real-time manufacturing data acquisition, production monitoring, factory performance management, and electronic machine remote monitoring. Tom successfully grew the company and sold it to Pentagon in 1999.

In 2009, Tom joined MAG IAS, LLC as the MES Business Development Manager, where they managed the sales and business development for the Infimatic software division. Tom oversaw the sales activity of the Freedom eLOG machine tool remote monitoring system, a real-time enterprise MES software solution for managing cell performance, increasing OEE, and maximizing production availability and manufacturing productivity. The company was later sold to Fives Group & 5ME.

In the same year, Tom also started working as the International Product Sales Director-SCADA at AirWay Technologies. Tom was responsible for managing all aspects of the company's industrial enterprise software and hardware automation cellular-based SCADA product, NOCvu. Tom handled the design, product development, sales, deployment, training, and maintenance of the product, which aimed to improve operating efficiency, power reliability, asset management, and network performance.

Tom then joined Advantech in 2016 as the IIoT North America Product Sales Manager. In this role, they were accountable for $11M in sales and business development for the company's four North American product divisions, which offered over 280 products. Advantech is a leading Industrial IoT Automation company with a yearly revenue of $1.3B.

Following their tenure at Advantech, Tom joined ADLINK Technology in 2017 as the Sales Director - IIoT Industrial Automation. Tom covered North American sales for Adlink's IIoT Division, which included products in Factory 4.0, industrial automation, AI robotics, machine vision, data acquisition, and Edge software solutions.

Tom's most recent work experience is with Everactive, where they started in 2021 as the Director of Sales. In this role, they are responsible for both direct and channel sales for this IIoT start-up. Everactive offers full-stack, real-time monitoring solutions to improve manufacturing and operational efficiency.

Overall, Tom has demonstrated expertise in sales and business development within the IIoT and industrial automation industries, with a particular focus on real-time monitoring solutions and software products.

Tom Wohlwender holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Kentucky. Apart from their formal education, they have obtained certifications in Challenger Sales Training from Challenger in March 2021. Additionally, they have pursued certifications in Nvidia GPU, Sandler Sales Training from Sandler Training, and Zig Zigler Sales Training from Ziglar, Inc, although specific details regarding the completion dates are not provided.