Jessica Poliner joined relayr in February 2022 as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and also serves on the board of directors for relayr, IoT Financial Services, and Munich Re’s IoT Advisory Council. Jessica brings over fifteen years of leadership experience working in global diversified industrial companies and has a strong track record of growing businesses. She adds global acumen and cognizance to the role, having lived in the USA, Argentina, India, Panama, Belgium, and Germany. Jessica is a people-first leader, committed to building talented, capable, and engaged teams with a customer-focused approach that delivers exceptional performance. She has led businesses ranging from approximately $200M to $1.5B in annual revenue.

Before joining relayr, Jessica served as Managing Director and President of Molding Solutions, a business of Barnes Group, Inc., leading approximately 2,200 global employees across 12 manufacturing locations. Prior to Barnes, Jessica served as the General Manager and Vice President for the Marine, Rail and Air businesses of Thermo King, based in Brussels, Belgium. Before joining Thermo King, Jessica held leadership roles at Caterpillar, Inc., where she served in positions of increasing importance in general management, marketing, sales, operations, distribution, and aftermarket and connected solutions and lived around the world. During her tenure at Caterpillar, Jessica demonstrated her ability to deliver business results during some of the most challenging and uncertain conditions. Jessica began her career as a lawyer, where she focused primarily on corporate law and mergers & acquisitions.

Jessica holds a Juris Doctorate (J.D.) from Marquette University Law School and a Bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University. In 2021 she completed her Certificate of Management Excellence at Harvard Business School. Jessica is passionate about diversity and inclusion and is co-author of a published book on the subject. In her spare time, Jessica is an outdoors enthusiast, seeks the sunshine, and runs more than the occasional marathon.

Patrick Weiler joined relayr in January 2022 as Chief Operating Officer (COO) of IoT Financing Services, relayr’s Financial Services business, where he has also been serving on the board of directors since May 2021. Patrick brings over twenty years of leadership experience working in global industrial, financial services, and consulting companies. His background spans from strategy development, organic and inorganic growth programs, over change and turnaround projects, to standing up new businesses. An Engineer by trade, Patrick has always been a firm believer that technology and innovation are the drivers for establishing a competitive edge, but it’s the people who make the sustainable difference.

At relayr, Patrick is helping to establish the company as the leader in delivering and orchestrating data-driven equipment-financing and as-a-service models. With a growing multi-disciplinary team of finance and industrial engineering professionals, his goal is for relayr to be the first and only entity in Europe and the US to have the full stack capabilities to operate EaaS models at scale.

Besides being “invested” in high-end audio, Patrick is an outdoor enthusiast for everything that has to do with mountains or water, has wheels, or can glide.

Andrei Ciobotar joined relayr in 2017 as Director of Analytics. A former CTO and co-founder of the AI startup Neokami, acquired by relayr, he brought with him a wealth of knowledge and expertise. Today, in his role as CTO, Andrei is the driving force behind the success of relayr's three engineering disciplines - cloud development, edge development, and artificial intelligence. A computer scientist by trade, Andrei firmly believes that automation has the potential to address some of the critical global challenges as well as allow us to shift from routine tasks to creative ones. Besides playing drums and being passionate about music, Andrei has developed a deep interest in cinema and video games.

Cindy Rubbens joined relayr in September 2019 as Director People. With extensive experience in the startup scene in the UK and Germany, Cindy is now responsible for people operations, workplace, and culture at relayr. Coming from a tech family, she is not only continuing the tradition but also supporting progress in an exciting field of technology - Industrial IoT. A lifelong learner herself, Cindy believes in the importance of giving back to the community and regularly takes part in panel discussions and meetups on HR topics. In her free time, she grows her own urban garden and makes outstanding pancakes.

John brings fifteen years of experience developing hardware and software products used by many customers. Before joining relayr, he spent eight years at Microsoft, serving in various management positions, and gathered extensive experience at FinTech start-ups in Berlin. John is experienced in leading complex teams through growth and technical delivery with a strong focus on talent development and coaching. John also is an inventor with eight patents for battery and the camera technologies, a frequent public speaker at conferences, and an author of numerous publications. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) – the world's largest non-profit technical group responsible for advancing engineering and science.

Bruno serves as our Vice President, Global Finance, leading the global finance, controlling, and accounting functions. He qualified as a UK Chartered Certified Accountant in 1994, and he has spent most of the past thirty years working in publicly listed software companies in a variety of roles. As a fluent French and German speaker, Bruno has always approached his role from a global perspective. He also has lived in the UK, Cyprus, Germany, and now Spain. When he is not passionately supporting relayr, Bruno enjoys participating in sports with his main passion being futbol.

Lou is an accomplished global technology executive with many years of experience in the use of innovative solutions to improve top and bottom-line growth in industrial companies. For the past 25 years, Lou has focused on driving the adoption of business transformation and digitalization initiatives to increase customer business value and drive business outcomes across various industrial segments. Lou is passionate about where technology meets strategy by exploiting the transformative potential of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). He is also nearing completion of his first book and enjoys climbing the occasional mountain.

Florian brings over 15+ years of industrial experience working in publicly listed companies such as Linde Engineering and Thyssenkrupp AG. Within relayr, Florian has served in the Value Creation Advisory team and also as a Customer Success Director, responsible for relayr's EMEA key accounts. In June 2022, Florian assumed the role of Vice President, EMEA Sales and is focused on expanding the offerings in the region to include the Equipment as a Service (EaaS) business model. Florian is a passionate customer advocate, and he enjoys a good challenge. He holds a degree in industrial engineering and has been interested in mechanical engineering since the beginning of his career.

Krishna Yarramasu joined relayr in June of 2019 and currently serves as Vice President, Strategy. In this capacity, Krishna focuses on supporting the organization in the development and execution of its Corporate Strategy, planning and execution of Strategic Initiatives, and development of Strategic Partnerships.

Krishna and his team have supported the organization on an array of near-term, key initiatives. In the past, he and his team have helped the organization rationalize its technology stack, developed relationships with and solutions for strategically important accounts, revamped relayr's customer journey, set up its Market Research function, scaled organization-wide objective setting systems, and helped developed capabilities for enabling Equipment as a Service.

Krishna started his career as a Management Consultant. He has several years of experience in advising executives across a variety of industries, including Insurance, Banking, Technology, and Retail, in topics related to Global Growth, Product Development, Go-to-Market Strategy, Portfolio Management, FinTech, Blockchain / Distributed Ledgers, M&A, Financial Modelling, and Agile Development. He has worked across North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and the Caribbean.

Krishna believes strongly in relayr's mission; his belief is that the right combination of leading vision and pragmatic execution can result in tremendous change across industrial markets. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He always enjoys discussions on gaming, geopolitics, history, VR / AR, and tennis.