Tim Bass is a Marketing and Product Strategy principal with an accomplished career as engineer, market analyst, technology leader and product champion. He has built his expertise as a product leader and innovator developing flagship products for industry leading technology companies including Sony, Samsung, Lenovo, Ericsson and Itron. Tim possesses a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering along with executive programs in innovation, strategy and leadership from Kenan Flagler School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Product Management Institute. His passion for analysis and problem solving began playing chess at the age of three where he learned to apply logic, creativity, and strategic thinking into winning positions, and has evolved into an opened minded, strategic approach to weaving market and customer requirements with emerging technologies for innovative product solutions. Having delivered Cellular IoT devices, platforms and network solutions for Gas, Water and Electricity markets, Tim currently serves as Trilliant Trilliant's Global Solution Manager for Water and Gas focused on empowering Utilities and Smart Cities with Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solutions to meet their smart network, connected device and data digitalization evolution. In our complex world of information overload, Tim is acutely focused building open, reliable, flexible, and scalable solutions that navigate, and power data driven decision making.