{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Russ Agrusa from ICONICS","description":"Check out episode 570 of &quot;Cool Things Entrepreneurs Do&quot; as Thom talks to Russ Agrusa, the founder and CEO of ICONICS.&amp;nbsp; Don't miss the announcement up front about the soon to be new name of this podcast! &amp;nbsp; Russ Agrusa is the Founder, President and CEO of ICONICS, Inc. (www.iconics.com), a world-leading software developer of open-connectivity and standards-based visualization software, HMI SCADA, and MES solutions for energy, manufacturing, industrial, and building automation. With more than 375,000 installations worldwide, ICONICS counts 70 percent of Global 500 companies as its customers. &amp;nbsp; Agrusa has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo and an M.S. in Computer Science from Boston University. His career began in Pittsburgh, PA, at Westinghouse Electric Corporation, where he developed real-time software for fossil and nuclear power plants. He next joined the Foxboro Company in Massachusetts, leading human machine interface (HMI) product development for the Foxboro Intelligent Architecture series distributed control system, before starting ICONICS in 1986. &amp;nbsp; Wanting to take advantage of the emerging PC-based automation market, and to create off-the-shelf HMI and SCADA software for factory automation, Agrusa recognized that OPC was central to the future of automation and led ICONICS to produce the first commercially available HMI\/SCADA, &quot;OPC-to-the-Core&quot;-based product. ICONICS has greatly contributed to the success of the OPC Foundation (www.opcfoundation.org), with Agrusa himself serving as a member of the foundation\u2019s Board of Directors, as well as its marketing chairman. &amp;nbsp; ICONICS, a group company of Mitsubishi Electric and a six-time winner of the Microsoft Partner of the Year award, is global software solution provider of web-enabled IoT, OPC UA, and BACnet-certified SCADA visualization, analytics, and mobile software solutions. &amp;nbsp;  https:\/\/thomsinger.com\/podcast\/ICONICS &amp;nbsp; ****************** ","author_name":"Making Waves at C-Level","author_url":"http:\/\/www.thomsinger.com\/podcast","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/14853890\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/item\/14853890"}