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Kevin Schultz serves as CTO and leader of the Technology and Innovation Office within Emerson's Test & Measurement business group (formerly NI). In this role, he is responsible for driving T&M's long-term, sustainable differentiation through disruptive, customer-focused innovation and the development of foundational architectures and technologies. Kevin joined NI in 1991 as a design engineer, contributing to some of the company's most innovative architectures and products in data acquisition, embedded control, conditioned measurements, precision, and RF spaces. He is the inventor or co-inventor of 25 technical patents, representing his work driving strategic innovation, development, and execution. Prior to taking on the role of CTO, Kevin has served as the R&D Senior Vice President over multiple R&D divisions, including Platform R&D, Segmenting R&D, RF R&D, and Data Acquisition and Control R&D. Throughout his career, he has partnered closely with NI's business leaders to deliver the differentiated technologies and products required by NI's customers. Kevin holds MS and BS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University and St. Cloud State University, respectively. He is a member of the Dwight Look College of Engineering Advisory Council at Texas A&M University.

As vice president and general manager of the Test and Analytics Software business, Rudy Sengupta is responsible for driving differentiation and resiliency through software and recurring revenue growth for Emerson's Test & Measurement business group (formerly NI). With almost two decades of experience at NI, Rudy has held multiple progressive leadership positions in engineering, product management and strategy. Most recently, he served as vice president of Product Management and Software Growth Strategy, focused on software portfolio transformation and product strategy across a broad product portfolio of RF, precision, conditioned measurement, communication, data acquisition hardware and application software. Prior to that, Rudy held multiple leadership and engineering roles within the R&D organization defining new FPGA-based measurement and control instrumentation and driving execution. Rudy holds a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, with a technical focus on embedded systems and communication networks. He is still engaged with the University as a member of the Electrical Engineering Advisor Board.

Massimiliano Banfi serves as Senior Director of Global Services at NI, Test & Measurement Business Group of Emerson, leading a worldwide team focused on designing, developing, and delivering service offerings that drive customer success in the realm of new technologies, products, and solutions. With a commitment to accelerating innovation, Max oversees support services, hardware services, field service, education services and services portfolio management. Max joined NI in 2001as an Application Engineer and performed in multiple roles, ranging from Systems Engineering, Program Management to Engineering Management bringing a wealth of knowledge to the global services arena. Max holds a master's degree in Aerospace Engineering from Politecnico of Milan. He is a TSIA Advisory Board Member.