John Keever is Chief Technology Officer of Telit IoT Platforms. He has more than 30 years of experience in automation software engineering and design. Keever was co-founder of ILS Technology in 2000 following eighteen years at IBM Corporation, where he last served as IBM global services principle responsible for e-Production solutions architectures and deployment. He has over 25 years of plant floor automation experience, and is the former world-wide development and support manager for Automation Connection, Distributed Applications Environment, PlantWorks and Data Collection hardware and software products. He served as lead marketing and solutions architecture at IBM, where he was responsible for General Motors, BMW, Chrysler, Tokyo Electron, Glaxo-Wellcome, and numerous other global manufacturing companies. Telit acquired ILS Technology in 2013 to form Telit IoT Platforms.