Gary Chandler

Company: QiO Technologies Ltd

Title: Commercial Director

Gary Chandler is Commercial Director at QiO, a fast-growing Industry 4.0 software company that provides customers with advanced analytical applications to unlock trapped productivity and improve safety. His passion is in exploring how recent Industry 4.0 software technology advances can help industrial engineers to explore and experiment with data from any source, to create predictive models and derive insights to drive better business outcomes across the entire lifecycle of a product.

Gary has over 20 years’ experience engineering real-time embedded software control systems for safety critical applications, predominantly in aerospace. Having developed Digital Strategy within a large industrial, he is now focused on delivering Industry 4.0 technologies to other large industrials to help them generate value in realization of their Digital Roadmap.

As Chief Engineer on the fuel control system for the Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 Engine used on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Gary introduced a fundamental change in the way engineering was practiced and lead the business transformation in deploying a Lean Product Development approach to engineering. Following the success of this strategy, Gary moved into a business development role - tasked with leveraging the benefits of Lean Product Development in other market verticals, including the Nuclear Sector in 2011.

With the emergence of Industry 4.0 technologies, Gary is actively engaged in ensuring businesses get started quickly in exploiting the transformative opportunities and don’t get left behind.