Bill has over 30 years experience in pharmaceutical manufacturing and technology consulting and sales. He spent 10 years at Eli Lilly and Company and 20+ years at AspenTech in various engineering, sales and leadership roles. He is currently the vice president of manufacturing at Cognite, responsible for scaling the adoption of Cognite Data Fusion in North America at process and discreet manufacturers. Cognite Data Fusion enables employees at these companies to have faster insights and scale innovation across their enterprise by delivering diverse IT/OT and Engineering data contextualized with machine learning algorithms and utilizing a flexible data model.

Cognite is a global industrial Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) leader, with an eye on the future and a drive to digitalize the industrial world. We’ve created a new class of industrial software which allows asset-intensive industries to operate more sustainably, securely, and efficiently. Our core software product is Cognite Data Fusion (CDF), designed to quickly contextualize OT/IT data to develop and scale company solutions. We use technology like hybrid AI, big data, machine learning, and 3D modelling to get there. We serve oil and gas, power and utilities, renewable energy, manufacturing, and other heavy-asset industries. Our technology helps them operate through transitions, sustainably and to scale, and without sacrificing bottom lines. We believe data must be made accessible, insightful, and open. In other words, we help our customers make data do more. And with that pave way for a full-scale digital transformation of heavy industry. Founded in 2016, we now number 700 strong, including some of the best software developers, data scientists, designers, and 3D specialists in the field. Hailing from 50 nationalities, we’re talented, curious, and fun to be around.