April 30, 2021
CTO Appointment
INTEREL, the global leader in providing award-winning Internet of Things & Energy Management solutions for smart buildings, is pleased to announce that Timothee Cruse has joined the company as its new CTO. In his role, Timothee will direct the company's R&D efforts to continue and accelerate INTEREL’s history of providing innovative class-leading solutions for its customers across hospitality, multi-dwelling units, senior living and student accommodations.
Timothee joins INTEREL from Amazon Web Services, where he led the prototyping business for the ASEAN region and served as Principal IoT architect. He previously held C-level roles in technology companies and brings with him significant hands on experience in cloud and embedded systems. Timothee also holds an MBA from INSEAD with a focus on Entrepreneurship and Blue Ocean Strategy.
Florian Gallini, CEO of INTEREL, said "I couldn’t be more thrilled about the great products and services we have in the roadmap for this year, and I have no doubt that under Tim’s leadership, our team will supercharge our already leading smart building solutions. The features that the team will launch on the new EOS platform over the next months are further reducing the total cost of ownership of our solutions, solving real business problems and include several groundbreaking innovations.”
Timothee commented:
“The smart building industry is growing very quickly and INTEREL’s core technologies is already leading in this space. I’m excited as ever to be part of what INTEREL will bring to the market and help accelerate and grow our R&D team. One plan: stay continuously on top of our game to deliver the best products and services for our customers!”
About INTEREL
INTEREL creates intelligent sustainable environments and is on a mission to empower companies that create smart living experiences, to use their and the world’s resources more efficiently by connecting utilities, things, and people through the best technology ecosystem. INTEREL’s smart building ecosystem consists of a beautifully crafted hardware portfolio of smart thermostats and room control devices, powered by INTEREL OS and its integrations. Together these products and services provide customers and partners a solution to retrofit, merge and virtualize, what otherwise would be several difficult to manage, siloed CAPEX investments. With 500.000 devices installed, INTEREL solutions have created smarter and more sustainable buildings in over 45 countries across the world.