Dan is a senior technology executive expert in Industry 4.0/digital technology and cybersecurity for manufacturing and engineering operations. He has delivered strategies that combine people, process, and technology to achieve business objectives while controlling cyber risk. He is passionate about harnessing and securing the power of digital technology to transform the reliability, productivity, and sustainability of end-to-end manufacturing operations and supply chains. His career has focused on architecting the next generation of technology tools and work processes across manufacturing and engineering, including interoperability across enterprise and process automation and engineering domains. Dan has also led global strategies and programs for OT (Operations Technology) cybersecurity across manufacturing and engineering operations. He is a Chemical Engineer with a broad and deep professional background, including process and systems engineering with IBM, engineering and manufacturing application support with Aspen Technology, manufacturing technology strategy at Hercules, leadership for plant to business integration initiatives within Rohm and Haas, direction of a consulting practice focused on process industry manufacturing excellence at CSC, and most recently accountability for manufacturing/OT cybersecurity and Industry 4.0/Digital Manufacturing transformation at Dow.