Summary: The lens of a product guy focused on Manufacturing In this week’s podcast, Ken Forster interviews Harinderpal Hanspal, Founder and Principal of Thing Company and thought leader on Open Manufacturing. Hans is a technology industry veteran and entrepreneur driving technology-enabled business and product transformations in technology, industrial, telecom and media companies. His technology and operations experience span over two decades of turning scrappy startup and corporate innovation ideas into growth-oriented and profitable businesses based on transactional and recurring revenue models. Hans co-founded Nurego in 2013 to help Industrial IoT platforms transform their legacy quote-to-cash systems to support subscription, pay-per-use, and pay-per-outcome revenue models for their IoT and software-enabled products and services. He sold the company to GE in 2017 and went on to lead GE Digital’s Platform Monetization and Customer Development strategy. Earlier in his career, Hans held global sales, product management, corporate strategy, and customer success leadership positions at several enterprise software and hardware companies, including Pivotal Software, VMware, and EMC Corporation (now Dell EMC). In his spare time, Hans leads Seattle’s 4100+ member IoT Hub Meetup group.
