John Baier is Vice President of Solution Strategy at AVEVA.   He is part of the Portfolio organization at AVEVA which manages all products and solutions across the broad AVEVA industrial software portfolio.   John and his team lead the AVEVA Lighthouse Early Adopter Program, working with the AVEVA ecosystem of customers and partners to optimize customer value using our latest products and related technologies.   The goals of this program are to lay the foundation that empowers the connected industrial economy by helping customers achieve operational excellence and hit their sustainability targets.  

John came to AVEVA through the acquisition of OSIsoft in 2021, serving at OSIsoft since 2009 and 20+ years at Rockwell Automation prior to that.   He has held a variety of roles in software engineering, engineering management, product management, and software architecture.   He is the inventor of over a dozen US Patents in plant floor information management and factory controls and holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.