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Kudelski Group Appoints Hardy Schmidbauer to SVP, IoT (MESA)

The Kudelski Group announced the appointment of Hardy Schmidbauer as Senior Vice President, IoT, effective April 30th, 2020. In this role, Schmidbauer will assume overall management responsibility for the IoT business segment, reporting to André Kudelski, Chief Executive Officer of the Group.

Hardy Schmidbauer is a seasoned executive in the wireless, semiconductor and IoT sectors, with a 20-year career spanning from project management to design engineering, marketing management, and product director, and was an entrepreneur. He played an instrumental role in the development of the wireless IoT ecosystem through management, R&D, and marketing roles in support of LoRa, LoRaWAN and other wireless protocols.

Among the companies he worked for are Silicon Labs and Semtech Corporation.

His initial responsibility will be to expand the strategic plan for the Kudelski Group’s IoT business in order to foster growth and sales while building upon the Group’s current achievements in this sector.

“We are very pleased to welcome Hardy Schmidbauer to the Group. Throughout his career, he has sharpened his ability to define, achieve, market solutions, and lead teams to an IoT environment. This will be highly beneficial to us in our willingness to further leverage the full potential of this segment for our Group, said André Kudelski, Chief Executive Officer of the Group.

Hardy holds an MBA from Santa Clara University and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Oregon State University. He is an American citizen and has spent several years in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, in Neuchâtel, with his family. He currently lives in Morgan Hill, California, and will relocate to Phoenix.