Rob is the Founder and CEO of EnterpriseIoT, a company focused on building the Internet of Humans & Machines with a distributed Edge Computing system that uses the power of Digital Twins to deliver value to business & society. Prior to EnterpriseIoT, Rob served as the CTO at Hitachi where he created the Lumada Industrial IoT platform and Asset Avatar digital twins that power manufacturing operations. Before Hitachi, Rob held leadership roles at Microsoft including Azure IoT and Windows Mobile.

Prior to Microsoft, Rob spent his career as an entrepreneur, executive, architect, developer, strategist and writer of bestselling books on mobile, wireless and embedded technologies. A pioneer of the mobile revolution, he drove the development of the mobile app ecosystem and co-founded the world’s first cloud-based, mobile device management (MDM) company. He’s routinely ranked as one of the top IoT experts in the world and he started his career in the M2M business during the early days of wireless where he brought unintelligent vending machines to life.

Rob serves on the boards of SmartCitiesWorld and Kapios Health.