Fred Thiel

Futurist, Digital Transformer, CEO
Thiel Advisors

Fred Thiel has over 30 years of experience leading and advising companies and investors in the technology, data communications, Internet, IoT/M2M (Internet of Things/Machine to Machine), automation, Big Data, digital media and software industries. Serving in many leadership roles, early on as a corporate CEO/senior executive and now as an advisor to CEOs and boards of directors, Thiel has helped drive rapid growth and generated hundreds of millions of dollars in shareholder value by focusing on transformational value creation, innovation and a keen understanding of how trends and disruptive technologies affect businesses and industries.

He is a technology and industry visionary and frequent speaker at global events and conferences on IoT and its impact on our future lives, business models, industries and society. He also lectures on innovation, strategy, disruption and transformational growth to MBA classes at both the University of Southern California (USC) Marshall School of Business, and the University of San Diego (USD).

Thiel is a longtime partner and advisor to Private Equity (PE) firms. He is currently a Senior Advisor to both Graham Partners and Inverness-Graham Investments, and an Industrial Advisor to EQT Partners, which is an elite network of 250 current or former executives of major international corporations who provide board-level advice and guidance in ongoing investment deals.

Thiel has helped companies transform business models and leverage the disruptive trends affecting industries globally. He helps companies evaluate, develop and execute strategies to transform operating businesses and product lines, drive innovation initiatives and create new product lines and business models that drive growth and create value.

He has developed visionary concepts and products, most recently to help companies develop and execute strategies for collaborative autonomous systems, intelligent sensor systems, predictive maintenance, and intelligent fleet/asset management solutions.

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Main Conference Day Three: Building Blocks For The Future Of Optimized Service - Friday, April 21, 2017

Monday, March 4th, 2019

2:20 PM GUEST SPEAKER: Leveraging Iot’s Collaborative, Predictive Smart Systems To Minimize Service Calls, Optimize Profits And Create New Business Models For Growth

• Imagine a future where products collaborate and even predict their own need for maintenance, optimizing uptime by leveraging scheduled maintenance intervals, and thereby minimizing disruptive unplanned downtime and repairs?

• Taking that a step further, imagine if the field service organization could leverage that product’s operating data to provide insight back to its customers as a value-added service?

• And beyond that, imagine taking the operating data from multiple points of service, benchmarking it across an entire enterprise or industry to gain the insight to optimize a single-point, single-location plant or operation?

Mr. Thiel will discuss what you should be considering when deploying collaborative, predictive business tools and moving to business models where field service can generate revenue from operational data.