René Thomassen joined AVEVA (OSIsoft) in 2012 as a Centre of Excellence engineer in the PI System domain - helping enterprise customers roll out PI and achieve business value through smart solutions. Since 2021 he is part of the product portfolio organization, driving 'lighthouse' projects for innovative new products as a project leader and solutions architect.  Prior to joining AVEVA (OSIsoft), René built extensive experience in a power generation company, leading projects to roll out and scale out PI Systems globally - first from an IT perspective, and later from business side (economical & technical dispatch of power generation assets - one significant role he had was business project manager to build an international dispatching centre).