Haroon Rashid

Having worked in Product Marketing and Product Management roles at Siemens and Schneider Electric, Haroon Rashid joined the solution development and solution marketing at Phoenix Contact in 2011, as Industry Manager for Transportation infrastructure. He also assumed responsibility for Building Automation when Phoenix Contact embarked upon the journey into the Building Automation Vertical. Currently, working as Senior Business Development Manager for Smart Buildings and Smart Cities, Haroon is focused on developing go to market strategies, identifying and developing repeatable solutions, and establish technology collaboration with IoT companies. Haroon has also been one of the founding members of Pennsylvania Automated Vehicle Coalition, senior member of IEEE and chairs/leads the Industry Value Proposition committee at Phoenix Contact. This committee is focused on Digitalization, Industrie 4.0 and Industrial IoT business. Apart for smart building solutions, Haroon has also been engaged with Tunnel and Railroad solutions. Haroon holds a bachelors in electrical engineering and a master in business administration. He has presented as SME at conferences including Global ITF, Oracle Open World, CharIN, IAEI and Smart Building events.

Internet of Things Community Advisory Board: The function of the IoT Community, is to focus on the adoption & application of IoT in commercial environments, seeking to understand & contribute to applying the technology or overcoming the wide variety of barriers, inhibitors, and technical & operational issues. As a member of the Advisory Board, Haroon provides impartial input and guidance to the overall vision, strategy and execution that is helping to shape the current and future direction for the IoT Community, as well as the broader IoT industry.