As director of global transportation research and design, Smith is responsible for developing product and marketing plans for NI’s automotive customers. Smith and his team are responsible for identifying the customer applications to drive growth around NI’s leading software-defined platform and aligning the global team to execute on the growth strategy. His experience and leadership have been focused on developing and delivering results driven through strategy built on disruptive technology and informed by customer needs.
Since joining NI in 1996 as an applications engineer, Smith has held key leadership positions in sales, engineering, product strategy, corporate development, and marketing. Smith has helped drive numerous strategic product and operational innovations during his time at NI. Most recently Smith led NI’s embedded systems and Industrial Internet of Things business.
Smith is a thought leader on topics such as the Internet of Things, 5G communications, and autonomous vehicles. is a He has been recognized as Top Embedded Innovator by Embedded Computing Design received an R&D 100 Award and was recognized by the IIC for his Industrial IoT contributions.
Smith holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of California at Santa Barbara and a master’s degree in applied physics from Stanford University.
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