PRESS RELEASE: Techniche appoints Tom Caldwell as Chief Technology Officer
Techniche Limited (ASX:TCN), a global technology company, today confirmed the appointment of Tom Caldwell to the position of Chief Technology Officer, effective April 1st, 2019. He will also lead the Techniche global engineering team which supports the Statseeker and Urgent platforms.
Statseeker is a leading provider of highly scalable network management solutions and Urgent delivers a SaaS cloud asset management solution. Both technologies have a proven track record in delivering solutions to some of the largest global Fortune 100 enterprise companies in the world.
Caldwell is a seasoned networking and software industry executive with a track record of innovation and building software businesses at Cisco, Microsoft, Rockwell and other leading technology companies. Tom has also founded and led a number of successful startups that focused on bringing new innovation to market including technology areas such as distributed cloud computing architectures, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and large scale SaaS software services. Prior to joining Techniche, his startup named CyberFlow Analytics, was acquired by Webroot where in the transition he served as senior director of engineering. Previous to that Tom served in a number of executive engineering roles at Cisco from January 2000 until March 2011.
“Tom brings a wealth of experience and knowledge that will be instrumental in ensuring the successful delivery of our future software technology platforms and solutions to create new market opportunities,” said Karl Jacoby, Techniche Chairman and CEO. “His leadership in AI and scalable Cloud Software Architectures will help us drive a new vision that is transformational in how our customers manage and monitor their critical assets, including IoT.”
A native of California, Caldwell has a master’s degree in computer science from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly).
“This is an incredibly important time in the evolution of how IoT assets, especially those attached to physical infrastructure are being managed by global enterprises, with many changes on the horizon being driven by cognitive AI technology,” said Caldwell. “I’m excited to join Techniche, including Statseeker and Urgent, because the portfolio of software companies has a well-earned reputation among its customers for scale and quality, a reputation that makes it possible for Techniche to expand in new technology directions.”
About Techniche: Techniche Limited (ASX: TCN) is a listed software company headquartered in Brisbane, Australia. We are building a new platform utilising our asset management and network management applications that addresses the need to manage the increasing amount of IP enable operational assets (OT) on a network, particularly in light industry, where asset reliability and availability is critical. Techniche has offices in San Diego, USA, Milton Keynes, UK and Brisbane, Australia as well as support teams across the globe. www.tcnglobal.net