Yong leads AVEVA’s global sales effort to help customers achieve their digital transformation through the alignment of their people and process. AVEVA™ Unified Operations Center achieves this by unifying all relevant systems and processes and visualizing them through a single pane of glass. Beginning his career in Ann Arbor, Michigan as a software engineer, Yong later migrated to Australia where he co-founded a global IT consulting firm servicing the finance and government sectors. After selling the business, Yong then returned to his roots in automation where he led Schneider Electric’s global business development in mining-related software solutions for 12 years before joining AVEVA (then OSIsoft) as a regional manager for the Pacific market.