Mr. Ruh, age 55, brings to the Board a track record of success in managing the digital transformation of a large industrial company. He also possesses a wealth of expertise in advanced software and industrial internet solutions, including cloud based platforms, analytics, and information technology/cybersecurity, developed over the course of a thirty year career in IT.. Mr. Ruh is the chief executive officer for GE Digital as well as the senior vice president and Chief Digital Officer (CDO) for GE. Prior to joining GE, Mr. Ruh was vice president at Cisco Systems, Inc. (2004 2011) where he held global responsibility for developing advanced services and solutions. Mr. Ruh has also held executive management positions at Software AG, Inc. (2001 2004); The Advisory Board Company (2000 2001); Concept 5 Technologies (1996 2000); and The MITRE Corporation (1984 2000). In addition to his executive management roles, Mr. Ruh played an instrumental role in establishing the Industrial Internet Consortium by bringing together government, academia and industry leaders to establish standards, best practices and processes for the industrial internet. Mr. Ruh is an author and a frequent speaker on such topics as emerging business models, cloud computing, analytics, mobile computing, agile development, large scale distributed systems, and machine to machine communications. He has a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in computer science from (California State). 

 Chemical Engineering, Polymers.