LEXI, the company behind the industry’s most comprehensive IoT platform that’s transforming how enterprises and consumers manage and automate their Smart Spaces, is pleased to announce the addition of a new member to its Advisory Board. Brett Bonner, Former Vice President of Research & Development/Operations Research at grocery retail giant, Kroger, brings significant experience and wisdom from the retail and logistics space to contribute to LEXI’s multi-protocol endeavors.
“We are thrilled to have Brett join LEXI’s Advisory Board! He is a tremendous addition to our team of experienced investors and advisors and brings a unique perspective given his experience researching and developing IoT systems and solutions for retail. Brett is a well-known leader in the IoT space, making his appointment a strategic and integral part of our company’s growth.” – Scott Cahill, CEO, LEXI
About Brett Bonner
Brett Bonner was formerly the Vice President of Research & Development/Operations Research at The Kroger Co., America’s largest grocery retailer. For nearly 14 years, Brett focused on creating sustainable competitive advantage by inventing advanced technologies and developing projects for retail and logistics that individually had at least a $50 million contribution.
Before joining Kroger, Brett served 25 years at Federal Express in various positions, including Technical Fellow, Managing Director of Scanning Technologies, and VP of FedEx Internet Technologies. During his time at FedEx, he invented and developed many diverse systems and his profit contribution for such systems exceeded $600 million per year.Brett formerly served on the Zigbee Alliance Board of Directors, the TechPoint Advisory Board and others throughout his industrious career. His FAST Alerts system was featured in Popular Science and on national TV shows, won a 2015 CIO 100 award, and ranked #3 in InfoWorld Elite 100 for QueVision for 2014. He was awarded the 2013 Franz Edelman Laureate for Achievement in Management Science and 2010 Planet Retail Innovator of the Year. Brett is a named inventor on 33 US patents from Federal Express and Kroger.
“I’m looking forward to being part of the success at LEXI. The comprehensive LEXI IoT Platform is innovative and robust with an exciting future to span applications across a variety of industries, including retail. This team’s expertise is deep and proven, and I look forward to contributing insights garnered from my own background with IoT systems and solutions to guide LEXI into a prosperous future within the IoT.” – Brett Bonner
About LEXI®
LEXI offers the ultimate gateway to the IoT universe. Our intelligent IoT platform is flexible, future-proof, and designed to empower companies to easily and intuitively add and manage Smart Devices for the home, building, city and agriculture. Our executive team is involved at the board level within leading global standards bodies that are charting the course for the connected future. Built by design to work with ALL leading ecosystems*, ALL major wireless protocols** and to bridge competitive third-party products, our Universal IoT Gateway is unrivaled, the LEXI Mobile App is comprehensive yet uncomplicated, and our U.S.-based cloud services were built by us from the ground up, enabling LEXI to deliver truly unique functionality at up to 90% cost savings over all our competitors. Learn more about the LEXI IoT Edge-to-Cloud Platform and other intelligent advantages at lexi.tech.
*Supports Amazon Alexa®, Google Home®, HomeKit®, IFTTT® & Samsung SmartThings®
**Far-reaching and future-ready: 900MHz, Bluetooth, LoRaWAN, Wi-Fi, Zigbee, Z-Wave plus OTA to BLE Mesh, Thread and Matter
Media Contact: Caroline Gick – LEXI Marketing/PR, pr@lexi.tech
