Kudelski Group announced the appointment of Hardy Schmidbauer as Senior Vice President, IoT, effective April 30th, 2020. In this role, Hardy Schmidbauer will assume overall management responsibility for the IoT business segment, reporting to André Kudelski, Chief Executive Officer of the Group. Hardy Schmidbauer is a seasoned executive in the wireless, semiconductor and IoT sectors, with a 20-year career spanning from project management to design engineering, marketing management, and product director, and was an entrepreneur. He played an instrumental role in the development of the wireless IoT ecosystem through management, R&D, and marketing roles in support of LoRa, LoRaWAN and other wireless protocols. Among the companies he worked for are Silicon Labs and Semtech Corporation.