Jim Bland is the president and general manager of Tridium, a division of Honeywell Home and Building Technologies based in Richmond, Virginia. In this capacity, he is responsible for leading Tridium’s day-to-day operations and directing its growth strategies across the organization.

A 25-year technology veteran with broad leadership and entrepreneurial experience, Jim was the founder and CEO of SNAPDATA.IO, a Washington, D.C.-based designer and developer of sensors, data communications hardware and software and other products designed for the Internet of Things market. Over the previous 20 years, he served as the CEO of four different technology companies: CODi, Inc., a Harrisburg, Pa., developer of mobile accessories; CRIX International Association, an organization that leveraged technology to streamline new drug development and approval; Datalux Corporation, a Winchester, Va., producer of wireless computing products for mobile data markets; and Ergonomixx, Inc., a Chevy Chase, Md., developer of software and hardware for the Microsoft Natural Keyboard.

Jim also served as the vice president – strategic business development and marketing for Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a $4 billion technology integration corporation based in Reston, Va., as well as the managing director of Corstone Capital, a technology and government services management consulting firm headquartered in McLean, Va.

Fluent in English, French, German and Arabic, Jim worked early in his career in an international capacity, first as a commercial attaché at a U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia and later as a consultant with William Kent International where he managed all aspects of multi-country strategy development for major U.S. and European consumer products companies.

Jim is a graduate of Wake Forest University, receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree in Politics and French. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship, studying in Vienna, Austria, as well as a scholarship to the Université d’Orléans, France. He received his Masters of Business Administration from Harvard Business School with a concentration in Finance and Competitive Analysis.

An avid tennis player and runner, Jim serves on numerous business boards and councils, including as a member of the Indian CEO High Tech Council, co-chairman of the Commonwealth Virginia Electronics Industry Steering Committee, director on Wells Fargo Bank’s Commercial Advisory Board, advisory board member of the Loudoun County Economic Development Commission, member of the Baltimore-Washington Venture Group and member of the Northern Virginia Technology Council. He is a member of the Harvard Club of Washington, D.C. and volunteers with KidzOnLine, a nonprofit educational organization working on digital divide issues with Washington, D.C. youth.

Uday Kelkar is VP of product engineering, responsible for Internet of Things (IoT) software and hardware products. Uday joined Tridium from Videojet, Danaher, where most recently he was the Director of Cross Platform Software development for Industrial Printers and Product Identification Systems. An experienced engineering leader, Uday has held executive and senior management positions within the high-tech industry in Nokia Maps (Nokia Here), Motorola Mobile Device, Johnson Controls and Videojet-Danaher.

Uday brings to Tridium an extensive background in data/voice networking, wireless, cellular telecommunication, control systems, big data technology and platform software development, as well as lean agile global engineering leadership experience. He is extremely driven and focused to make open IoT platform a reality.

Working Experience

June-2011 to Present: Managing Director, Tridium Asia Pacific
June-2009 to June-2011: Business (LoB) Director, Homes AP, Honeywell
May-2002 to May-2009: Engineering Director, ECC Global Design Centre, Honeywell
Aug-2000 to May-2002: Customer Technical Service Manager, Applied Materials (China)
April-1997 to July-2000: Production Manager, Proctor & Gamble (China)

Education

Aug-2006 to Sep-2008: CEIBS (China Europe International Business School), EMBA
Aug-2000 to Feb-2001: Applied Materials Global Training School, (CA, USA)
Oct-1997 to May-1998: Engineering College of Proctor & Gamble (China)
Sep-1994 to April-1997: Tianjin University, Master in Mechanical Engineering
Sep-1987 to July-1991: Shengyang Polytechnic University, Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering

Mike Luscombe joined Tridium in 2010 and currently leads global market development activities, including partnerships and acquisitions as well as leadership of the services business. With over 20 years of IT, telecom and software experience his strengths lie in delivering new technologies to market and opening new geographic and vertical markets. Prior to Tridium, Mike served for seven years the GM of an early stage cloud services company that delivered hosted virtual desktops. He has worked in several early stage technology companies as well as fortune 100 companies such as GE where during his ten year tenure he held progressively responsible positions in market development, business development and product management. Mike holds Bachelor of Science degrees from Western Michigan University and Metropolitan State University in Denver.

Jonathan Rodriguez is Tridium’s Director of Product Marketing, supporting the product management team as they bring new products from the ideation phase through development and commercialization. He joined Tridium in 2011 to guide efforts on Niagara energy management products. He then served as the product manager for the core Niagara Framework, with a focus on bringing the next generation to market. Jonathan has previous experience with product management and software development in the data center power quality and energy management industry. He holds Bachelor’s degrees in Computer and Electrical Engineering along with a Master’s degree in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University. He completed his MBA at the UNC-Chapel Hill Kenan-Flagler Business School.

Kevin Smith is Tridium’s Chief Architect. He provides technology strategy and direction for all of Tridium’s products to the architecture and engineering teams. For more than 25 years, Kevin has led technology organizations and endeavored to develop highly secure, data-focused software solutions for a wide variety of customers. He's the author of seven technology books on topics such as cybersecurity, big data analytics, semantics, software engineering and enterprise architecture. He's a frequent speaker at industry conferences on the subjects of building automation, the IoT and cybersecurity. Kevin received a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary. He received a Master’s degree in Computer Science, along with post-graduate certificate degrees in Software Systems Engineering and Information Systems Security from George Mason University.

Roger has been in the Building Controls market for over 30 years and is a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Building Controls Industry Association. He also served for four years as the Chairman of the Building Controls trade association.

Now Vice President and Managing Director, EMEA region of Tridium, the global leader in open platforms, application software frameworks, automation infrastructure technology, energy management and device-to-enterprise integration solutions. Tridium’s Niagara software technology and applications have fundamentally changed the way devices and systems connect, integrate and interoperate with each other and the enterprise via the web. Tridiums’ European headquarters are in the UK.

Prior to working at Tridium Roger worked with Johnson Controls where he was responsible for their European Products division and previous to that he was globally responsible for York International’s Building Controls Group based in various locations including the US and Europe.