New Z-Wave Alliance board of directors announced

The Z-Wave Alliance has announced its newly elected board of directors for 2023, featuring representatives from across the connected home and IoT industry.

Effective immediately, the updated roster of roles and representatives is as follows:

Chairman of the Board – Jonathan Adams, Amazon

Vice Chairman of the Board – John E Osborne II, LEXI Devices

Treasurer – Kevin Kraus, ASSA ABLOY

Secretary – Avi Rosenthal, bluesalve partners

Executive Director – Mitch Klein, Silicon Labs

Director – Jennifer Doctor, Johnson Controls Inc.

Director – Stephen Haynes, Vivint

Director – Andrew Weir, ADT

Director – Gustaf Lonaeus, Alarm.com

Director – James Wang, LEEDARSON

Chair Emeritus – Jacob Alamat, Silicon Labs

The smart home industry has grown dramatically in the last two years. This has reflected in Z-Wave’s work too, experiencing milestones such as the availability of the Z-Wave Long Range (LR) certification, achieving 4,100 certified Z-Wave devices, and witnessing 90 million new devices enter the market since 2020.

Z-Wave Alliance also says that conversations concerning standards and protocols are at an all-time high. Amongst talk of one of the most anticipated new developments in the IoT, the Z-Wave Alliance proudly seats Jonathan Adams, a young and emerging technology leader at Amazon, at the head of the organisation. Furthermore, the Alliance continues to benefit from the knowledge and expertise from the collective board, which includes leaders who are founding participants of Project CHIP and who currently hold chaired positions within both the Thread Group and the Connectivity Standards Alliance.

“Recently, the universally sourced, industry-rallying battle-cry has been that of interoperability,” said Mitch Klein, executive director of the Z-Wave Alliance. “No other organisation has as much experience at the helm as the Z-Wave Alliance, which has operated with interoperability as a core value for the past two decades. If the freshly elected Z-Wave Board of Directors proves anything, it is that industry leaders and trend setters echo our sentiment and see the future of Z-Wave as bright and opportunistic.”

The new Z-Wave Alliance board of directors features a roster of leadership from companies at the forefront of IoT. Newly elected members bring fresh perspective, new ideas, and instantly add their background to the board’s decades of combined experience.

 

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