Philipp Sutter has an MS in Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and spent most of his professional life in the pharmaceutical industry. He is the owner of OctaveSoft GmbH in Basel, Switzerland. With more than 25 years of PI System experience, he has been involved internationally in various PI System implementations, upgrades, mergers, in the definition of global enterprise PI systems and AF structures, as well as the implementation of standard and custom interfaces and tools around the PI System infrastructure. He is a long-time member of the vCampus and PI Square community, and a PI System champion. He is involved every day in helping his customers gain the most value out of their PI Systems.