Russel Fadel

Mr. Russel Fadel, President & General Manager of ThingWorxTM at PTC Inc.spoke on the topic of "Smart and Connected Products in the Internet of Things".

The industry is in a phase of profound upheaval. Globalization, networking and modularization are transforming value creation - not only in production and delivery processes, but also in business models and thus also in early development and downstream service phases. Under the heading Product & Service Advantage, PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC) supports customers of all sizes in industries with discrete manufacturing along the entire product lifecycle. PTC's solutions transform product creation and service operations end-to-end from the early stages. PTC was founded in 1985 and today has approximately 6,000 employees serving more than 27,000 customers worldwide.

Russel (Russ) Fadel is President and General Manager of ThingWorxTM, a PTC business. In this position, Fadel is responsible for growing ThingWorx's business. Prior to the acquisition by PTC, Fadel was Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of ThingWorx, provider of an award-winning platform for running Internet of Things applications with powerful, easy-to-use capabilities to integrate with business applications or build your own. Prior to founding ThingWorx, Fadel was Chief Executive Officer and a founding member of Lighthammer Software Development. Prior to Lighthammer, Fadel co-founded two other successful companies in the software and hardware space. Russ Fadel studied mechanical engineering at Duke University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree.

Status: Beginning of 2014