SPE Education Day

Steve has worked in the electronic connector and cable assembly industry for over 35 years. During this time, he has held positions in field sales, business development, and product management. He has experience in both connector and cable assembly development, including flat-ribbon cables and associated connectors, high-speed cable assemblies, and value-add products. Steve has supported many large-scale Tier One customers in the commercial and industrial markets. During his 19-year career at Phoenix Contact, he has held roles as a specialist and product marketing manager and is currently the Director of Product Marketing for the Device Connector business unit.

In the last decade, Guadalupe has held roles in R&D, product design, and product management for Automotive and Industrial connectivity solutions, focusing on Single Pair Ethernet technology. She has also been awarded three patents for the innovative design of automotive Ethernet connectors. In her current role, Guadalupe is a subject matter expert for high-speed device connectivity, promoting new technologies for data communications and helping customers select the right data transmission technology for their applications.

For the past 30 years, Arnold has supported sales, marketing, training, and product management in the field of industrial automation at Phoenix Contact. In the most recent decade, he has predominantly focused on the Process Automation arena, including the APL Project, and Single Pair Ethernet for Factory and Process Automation.

Arnold has worked for Phoenix Contact on three different continents, and he is constantly inspired by what he considers a truly great learning experience. Arnold has also published several technical articles about APL.

Haroon has been responsible for marketing, product, and business development for over 30 years. He joined Phoenix Contact in 2011 as an Industry Manager for Transportation Infrastructure.

Haroon is currently responsible for the business development of smart cities and smart buildings, where he identifies and reduces product gaps, growing business through strategic and tactical efforts. He chairs the Smart Cities Center of Excellence at the Global IoT Community, and the Phoenix Contact Industry Value Proposition Committee on the Digitalization Team. Haroon has presented as SME at conferences including the International Transportation Forum, (ITF), Oracle Open World, CharIN, and more.

I joined Telebyte 35 years ago and became President in 1999. It has been an exciting time, especially the last three years, as I have led the strategic direction of the company towards investing in the development of Single Pair Ethernet (SPE) testing solutions. Our strategic growth has been focused on helping customers accelerate deployment, shorten time to market, achieve standards compliance and more. We have invested our resources in developing tools such as cable qualifiers for testing existing field cables and laboratory equipment for testing and debugging SPE/APL switches and sensors. In a very short time, Telebyte has become the “Industry Standard” in Ethernet-APL Conformance and Interoperability testing in the Process Automation market segment.

Ken started at Phoenix Contact in 2007, focusing predominantly on networking solutions for the Industrial Automation market. During his tenure, Ken has supported the specification of various Ethernet products, bringing his expertise to bear in many challenging applications. Ken's extensive Ethernet and Networking knowledge and trainings have enabled and enlightened hundreds of Phoenix Contact distributors and customers, contributing to the exemplary growth of the Ethernet switch line.

Steve has worked in the electronic connector and cable assembly industry for over 35 years. During this time, he has held positions in field sales, business development, and product management. He has experience in both connector and cable assembly development, including flat-ribbon cables and associated connectors, high-speed cable assemblies, and value-add products. Steve has supported many large-scale Tier One customers in the commercial and industrial markets. During his 19-year career at Phoenix Contact, he has held roles as a specialist and product marketing manager and is currently the Director of Product Marketing for the Device Connector business unit.

For the past 24 years, Joel has supported connector design-in and the product management of connectors primarily for electronic device OEMs, spanning a wide variety of industries and applications. For the last three years, Joel’s responsibility has focused on industrial-grade communication connectivity incorporated directly on a PCB design and the associated field connectivity supporting that communication to and from industrial devices. As Ethernet continues to lead industrial networking, Joel is currently responsible for managing copper solutions (RJ45s, M8s, M12s, Single Pair Ethernet, etc.), as well as fiber.

In the last decade, Guadalupe has held roles in R&D, product design, and product management for Automotive and Industrial connectivity solutions, focusing on Single Pair Ethernet technology. She has also been awarded three patents for the innovative design of automotive Ethernet connectors. In her current role, Guadalupe is a subject matter expert for high-speed device connectivity, promoting new technologies for data communications and helping customers select the right data transmission technology for their applications.

Jason has been with Phoenix Contact since 2006, accumulating over seventeen years of experience in Industrial Automation. Starting as an engineering intern and advancing through various positions supporting Industrial Wireless to wired Ethernet systems, he is currently a Senior Market Development Manager with a specialized focus on Ethernet-based automation. Jason is passionate about the emerging trends of Single-Pair Ethernet and Advanced Physical Layer technology and is excited to introduce these topics to the automation marketplace.

For the past 30 years, Arnold has supported sales, marketing, training, and product management in the field of industrial automation at Phoenix Contact. In the most recent decade, he has predominantly focused on the Process Automation arena, including the APL Project, and Single Pair Ethernet for Factory and Process Automation.

Arnold has worked for Phoenix Contact on three different continents, and he is constantly inspired by what he considers a truly great learning experience. Arnold has also published several technical articles about APL.

Prior to his current role at Phoenix Contact, Chris spent nine years working with building automation system integrators in Southern California and Southwest Florida. As an outside sales rep for these firms, Chris saw the industry slowly shift from serial MSTP networks to the IP Ethernet networks that connect all DDC controllers. This migration has brought increased speeds and versatility in network building, along with new challenges, including increased cost, network security, and network ownership. Chris enjoys exploring the ever-evolving automation landscape and sharing how Phoenix Contact can utilize SPE to help our customers.

For the past 15 years, Nate’s primary focus has been supporting industrial water-tight interconnect for signal, power, and data cabling. Ruggedized Ethernet spans from basic RJ45s enclosed in IP65+ housings to the development of new circular interfaces, i.e., 10 Gbps M12 X-code (IEC 61072-2-109), M8 D-code (IEC 61076-2-114), and Single Pair Ethernet (IEC 63171-5) that fuel mass adoption in the market. Nate is currently responsible for Phoenix Contact’s broad portfolio of industrial connectivity products that mount in a cabinet, bring a cable through an enclosure, or connect to field devices.

Michael has worked in engineering sales and project management for the past 27 years. His extensive experience in industrial and building automation, as well as in the ICT sector, has enabled him to make great contributions in improving IoT and device connector solutions. In addition to his role at Phoenix Contact, Michael is an enthusiastic missionary of SPE technology and is involved in various working groups at the Single Pair Ethernet System Alliance.

Haroon has been responsible for marketing, product, and business development for over 30 years. He joined Phoenix Contact in 2011 as an Industry Manager for Transportation Infrastructure.

Haroon is currently responsible for the business development of smart cities and smart buildings, where he identifies and reduces product gaps, growing business through strategic and tactical efforts. He chairs the Smart Cities Center of Excellence at the Global IoT Community, and the Phoenix Contact Industry Value Proposition Committee on the Digitalization Team. Haroon has presented as SME at conferences including the International Transportation Forum, (ITF), Oracle Open World, CharIN, and more.

Andy has driven connectivity sales growth through design-in efforts at factory automation device OEMs for the last 20+ years. Now, as a Solutions Engineer and Market Development Manager at Phoenix Contact, he serves as a technical and sales resource for Ethernet applications and connectors. Leveraging his extensive knowledge, he helps our customers optimize their automation connectivity solutions and supports our sales teams in the field.

Grant Vandebrake has over a decade of experience in industrial controls, networking, and security, six of which have been spent working specifically with critical infrastructure industries. Grant started with Phoenix Contact in 2013 as a solutions engineer, programming PLC applications for customers primarily related to SCADA. From there, he started working on secure remote SCADA networking for utilities and process customers. In 2019, Grant completed the SANS course for industrial control systems security and received his GICSP certification. Currently, Grant supports network and security application design in critical infrastructure markets for Phoenix Contact globally.