Brion Carroll

VP Global Business Development, Retail PLM, PTC

Brion Carroll is the VP, Global Business Development in the Retail Business Unit at PTC. Brion has over 35 years of experience in the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and related industries, with the last 17 years focused in providing PLM to the Retail & Consumer market. Prior to joining PTC, Mr. Carroll was founder, CEO and President of Aptavis Technologies Corporation, the company that developed the industry leading FlexPLM product, acquired by PTC in 2005. Previously he founded and served as CEO of Life Cycle Solutions, Inc, a globally renowned PDM/PLM industry consulting firm from 1992, and held various technology roles at GTech and Computervision since 1980.

He has authored numerous articles and white papers and is an advisor to industry on technologies that improve operational efficiency, enable collaborative work environments, and provide real-time information visibility; and most recently the emerging Internet-of-Things (IoT) technology in Retail & Consumer market and the industry transforming Material Exchange.

Mr Carroll has a Bachelor of Science in Business Management, and an MBA with a concentration in Global Management from the University of Phoenix.

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I've been leading effort in the Product Lifecycle Management space since I brought the first product to market in 1984. Now we are making waves in how our FlexPLM product connects direct to factory production using ThingWorx and Kepware. Check it out at the Retail Booth at LiveWorx.