About ICONICS

Ted’s 25-year career features a broad range of success in industrial automation markets. Prior to joining ICONICS, Ted was the Director of Business Planning for the Software and Controls segment at Rockwell Automation, responsible for annual operating plans, portfolio management, and acquisition integration. Ted served in a variety of roles at Rockwell including Director of Global Business Development and Business Director, Automation Software. In these roles, his responsibilities included managing Rockwell's relationship with Microsoft and other partners, acquisitions, and business and product management for automation software. 

Prior to Rockwell, he co-founded two software companies. Incuity Software, Inc. developed enterprise manufacturing intelligence software and was acquired by Rockwell in 2008. DataWorks Systems was a system integration firm he co-founded in 1994 that deployed a variety of controls and automation projects in North America and South Africa.

Mr. Otsuka has a 25-year tenure with Mitsubishi Electric Nagoya. He was appointed as Vice President of Corporate Development for ICONICS in April of 2022, working at ICONICS headquarters in Foxboro, Massachusetts. At ICONICS, he is responsible for promoting the collaboration between Mitsubishi Electric Company (MELCO) and ICONICS promoting joint development projects. Mr. Otsuka started with Mitsubishi Electric as a software engineer working on GT Designer, an engineering software tool for GOT HMI panels, in Japan. He served as Senior Manager of GOT Firmware Development from 2016 and most recently served as Director of the Mitsubishi Electric Automation Inc, North Development Center from December 2020, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has a Master of Mechanical Engineering Degree from Nagoya University in Japan.

Rob leads the accounting, finance, customer service, legal, and MIS/IT functions for ICONICS. In addition, Rob oversees the compliance activities as part of Mitsubishi Electric. Rob earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Finance from Bryant University and brings over 20 years of finance and corporate accounting experience across a diverse range of industries. His multi-faceted background includes a substantial knowledge of administrative processes, business operations, and financial reporting for privately held, family-owned, and publicly traded companies, and he is accustomed to working across departments to initiate change processes that improve efficiencies, enhance reporting processes, and strengthen performance.

Mark leads the global growth of ICONICS. With a mechanical engineering degree from the University of Minnesota, Mark worked in servo motor design engineering at Electro-Craft Corp., then joined General Electric Company for 15-years. While working with GE, Mark focused on sales force management, marketing, P&L operations, and physical distribution of many of GE's industrial "business-to-business” operations.

While Gary has 30+years of exceptional professional experience, most recently, Gary worked for United Technologies as the Director of Product Management and Marketing helping define new products for the Video Surveillance and Card Access market. Gary has an MBA in Strategic Planning, Technical Management from the University of Dallas and a BS in Control/Computer Engineering from University of Texas at Austin.

Vojta manages and coordinates the ICONICS product development, research, quality assurance and new technologies. He coordinates and works closely with management to set product and technology strategies for ICONICS R&D. Vojta joined ICONICS in 1994 as a new Development Engineer; he was the first development employee and helped start the Pilsen, Czech development center. Through the years, Vojta has grown the office and as CTO assists in hiring new people and managing and creating high quality products. Vojta received his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree from the Department of Computer Graphics and Data Visualization in the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen.

Melissa oversees the Product Marketing, Marketing Communications, Marketing Operations, Technical Writing and Visual Marketing & Communications Departments Worldwide. Melissa joined ICONICS in June 2002 and has held several positions at the company starting in our Quality Assurance Department, and in 2004, became the BizViz Product Marketing Manager. Melissa has a BS in Computer Science and a minor in Management Information Systems from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI).

John supervises and mentors the US Applications Solutions team and drives new projects and QPS opportunities. John joined ICONICS in June 2008 as a Technical Support Engineer and in 2010 he transitioned to Applications Engineer. He made significant contributions to ICONICS and the US QPS team with his strong technical knowledge and work ethic and was promoted to North American Applications Solutions Supervisor in June 2013. John has his Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Roger Williams University.

Roberto is the International Applications Manager, responsible for providing quality professional services to our international customers. He joined ICONICS just after achieving his Master’s Degree cum laude in Computer Science in 2005. Roberto has a strong knowledge of ICONICS products both from an engineering point of view, and from an end user point of view. He has worked on projects in many different industries, including automotive, renewable, utilities, building automation, and manufacturing.