Nicolas Windpassinger

Nicolas Windpassinger has spent more than fifteen years in the computer networking industry, and he now serves as Global Vice President of Schneider Electric’s EcoXpert™ Partner Program. The program brings together the technologies and expertise of the world’s leading technology providers to build the future of intelligent buildings and the Internet of Things, delivering smarter, more integrated, and more efficient solutions to customers.

The work has earned recognition. Under his leadership, the EcoXpert™ Partner Program received a 5-Star rating in CRN®’s 2017 Partner Program Guide, an honor reserved for the small group of companies that offer solution providers the strongest partnering programs in the channel.
Nicolas himself has been named to The Channel Company’s Top Midmarket IT Executives list, which honors vendor and solution provider leaders who have shown a real commitment to the midmarket. The same year, the company named him one of its “100 People You Don’t Know But Should” in the IT channel for 2017.

He holds a telecommunications engineering degree from INSA, the French engineering school ranked first worldwide in Engineering, Technology, and Computer Sciences in the 2015 Shanghai Academic Ranking, and he completed additional computer science coursework at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

His career spans the full IoT value chain and a wide range of companies, from an early-2000s startup, ToutOPhone, to the telecommunications giant Nortel Networks-Avaya, to the major IT systems integrator Spie. Along the way he has lived in Australia, Singapore, Switzerland, the United States, and France.

What drives him is a genuine fascination with both technology and people. As he puts it: “If someone asked me what I feared most, I would say routine, for the trouble it causes. If someone asked me what I want, I would answer, just two things: to discover and to act. After all, what is more exciting than discovering ideas, people, and the things around us?”

In Digitize or Die, Nicolas takes apart the digitization phenomenon piece by piece, from the underlying technologies to the business models, from digitally fluent organizations to the strategies that set them apart. The book examines the real potential of the IoT and how to prepare for it, opening up a world of possibilities and showing you how to lead your marketplace rather than be left behind by it.