PHOENIX, AZ - April 3, 2025 - Cognite, the global leader in industrial AI, today announced that it is strengthening its leadership team with the addition of three deep domain experts: Chirayu Shah, Chief Product Officer (CPO), Sandy Joung, Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), and Bill Owen, Chief Services Officer (CSO), positioning the company for accelerated worldwide growth.
- Shah is an experienced CPO with a strong 20-year global history in industrial data management and enterprise software leadership. Recent roles include serving as CPO at Honeywell and also as Head of Product Management, Digital Portfolio at Rockwell Automation where he was instrumental in establishing the Cognite partnership to advance digital innovation in manufacturing. Shah will be responsible for driving innovation and product strategies for Cognite's industrial software portfolio including core AI platform, Cognite Data Fusion, and Cognite Atlas AI™, Cognite's industrial agent workbench.
- Joung is recognized as a change agent and driving force in digital transformation, AI, and modern marketing. She possesses deep domain expertise with more than 20 years of experience in building brands and driving awareness and growth across multiple audiences. She recently served as the Chief Growth and Marketing Officer at Seeq and held leadership roles at Visa, PTC, and Zuora. She will lead the company's marketing strategy to propel Cognite’s brand and growth trajectory forward as CMO.
- Owen will spearhead Cognite's services and delivery team as CSO and drive unparalleled customer success. With more than 30 years of leadership in enterprise software and services, including his tenure as Global CIO for Blue Yonder, Owen brings a proven passion for customer service and delivery and a deep understanding of product development, professional services, and customer support across verticals worldwide.
“Cognite is building a world-class team with deep domain knowledge, contemporary technology skills, and an approach to teaming, unique to us," said Girish Rishi, CEO, Cognite. "Sandy, Chirayu, and Bill will further fuel our growth, scaling GenAI application to the data foundation. Sandy, Chirayu, and Bill cherish our old school values: relentless in our endurance, owning our charter, and always, always making an impact towards our stakeholders' urgent interests."
Cognite empowers industrial companies to make sense of their data to enable AI solutions and achieve rapid transformation. By leveraging Cognite’s unique combination of a trustworthy data and AI foundation and low-code AI agents, companies can now scale AI initiatives across the enterprise to realize unprecedented productivity, efficiency, and sustainability outcomes.
To learn more about Cognite's latest product release featuring extensible AI agents to cut complexity, see this press release.
About Cognite
Cognite makes GenAI work for industry. Leading energy, manufacturing, and power & renewables enterprises choose Cognite to deliver secure, trustworthy, and real-time data to transform their asset-heavy operations to be safer, more sustainable, and profitable. Cognite provides a user-friendly, secure, and scalable platform that makes it easy for all decision-makers, from the field to remote operations centers, to access and understand complex industrial data, collaborate in real-time, and build a better tomorrow. Visit us at www.cognite.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.
Media Contact
Michelle Holford
Vice President, Global PR
michelle.holford@cognite.com