John Taylor

Chief Executive Officer & Board Member

John Taylor is an experienced CEO, Executive Chairman, and Board Member who has built, advised and raised capital for technology companies focused on business software, digital media, live events, and payments.  John specializes in emerging growth companies poised to scale their operations and business and maximize overall value. He has secured multiple rounds of investment capital from venture firms and strategic investors and overseen mergers and acquisitions on both sides of the transaction.

John was the co-founder and CEO of Jatter, a payments and messaging company, and served as the Executive Chairman of Vendini, a leading online ticketing company that generated over $2 Billion in ticket sales that was acquired by AudienceView. As CEO of Ecast, John built the largest interactive, place-based media network in the U.S. with more than 10,000 connected, dynamically ad-served media devices in public venues.  John also held executive leadership positions at Macromedia (acquired by Adobe), Quokka Sports, DimensionX (acquired by Microsoft), Sun Microsystems (acquired by Oracle) and NCR Corporation. John earned his Bachelor’s degree in Applied Economics from Cornell University.

Mauritz Botha

Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer

Mauritz Botha co-founded XiO with Paul Sagues with a vision of bringing together operational technology and information technology and their application in industrial control systems into the connected world. Over the past 30 years, Mauritz has developed large-scale, highly secure industrial controls for multi-national companies. He co-founded numerous technology businesses, including Lontech and Sperolon, where he was the architect for intelligent residential demand-side systems and environmental sensing systems used in the mining industry. As co-founder and CTO of IMSI-Design, he established TurboCAD products as the dominant CAD application in the U.S. Mauritz holds a Bachelor of Science in Electronic Engineering from University of Stellenbosch, Hons. Bachelor of Computer Engineering from the University of Pretoria and a Masters of Electrical Engineering (cum laude) from the University of Potchesfstroom. He holds a patent on a machine vision system for industrial control and a number of patents pending associated with his work at XiO.

Peter Moy

VP of Engineering

As Vice President of Engineering at XiO, Peter Moy is responsible for design, development, engineering, and application of XiO’s hardware and software technologies. Peter is responsible for engineering the Soft-I/O Module®, an innovative product that makes configurable I/O possible and is at the core of XiO’s offering. In his previous role as Director of Engineering at Berkeley Process Control (BPC), he was responsible for software, electronics, mechanical design, product development, and systems engineering. He oversaw system development for projects in automated welding, semiconductor wafer handling, nuclear vessel inspection, and nuclear-spent fuel canister welding. Peter has a BSE in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University and a Master of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Mark Puckett

VP of Product Development

As Vice President of Product Development, Mark Puckett is responsible for translating customer needs and desires into XiO’s product offerings. Mark is responsible for the design and implementation of the XiO User Interface, the web-based portal where users interact with their control systems in a dynamic manner. He has a passion for designing systems that solve customer needs, are user-friendly, and adaptable. Mark has over a decade of experience as both a product and project manager for water technology companies, specifically the commercial, municipal, and agricultural irrigation technology business. Mark earned a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University.

Bryan Collins

VP of Operations

As Vice President of Operations at XiO, Bryan is responsible for developing integration between operations, accounting and finance, sales, and production, in order to drive superior business performance. Bryan is experienced working in a wide range of companies, from start-ups to big four consulting firms. In his previous role, he helped foster 10X revenue growth, resulting in an acquisition by a publicly held company. He holds a Bachelor in Economics from NMU in South Africa.