Veteran Microsoft Leader Kinzer to Lead Strategic Operations at Microshare
For Immediate Release
December 12, 2019 – PHILADELPHIA – With demand for its aggregated IoT data offering exploding globally, Microshare® Inc. on Monday announced that veteran Microsoft real estate, M&A and change management leader Barney Kinzer would join the Philadelphia-based data solutions company as Director of Strategic Operations.
Kinzer, an Integration Director with Microsoft’s M&A Venture Integration group, spent 22 years at Microsoft and has also held senior leadership roles in Microsoft’s corporate real estate & facilities group, including global M&A real estate integration practice leader, Puget Sound Portfolio and Campus Planning leader, and head of real estate planning and delivery for Microsoft’s field portfolio across the Americas.
“Attracting veteran talent like Barney to Microshare is a direct reflection on the unique position Microshare has carved out in the multibillion-dollar global market for IoT data insights,” said Ron Rock, Microshare CEO and Co-Founder. “Barney’s broad Microsoft background with large real estate portfolios, enterprise operations, and technology strategy will help us bring cost savings, efficiencies and sustainability to our growing global client base.”
Microshare provides Digital Twinning and Data as a Service solutions at scale to large corporate clients in facilities management, health care, infrastructure, transportation and other sectors. In the past year, the company has expanded its operations in Europe and the Middle East and forged strategic partnerships with Microsoft Azure, Arrow Electronics, Kerlink and other key technology players.
“I’m incredibly excited to help Microshare deliver on its ambitious and transformative vision for commercial real estate,” said Kinzer, who will split his time between Seattle and Microshare’s Philadelphia and London locations. “I’ve been hearing Prop Tech IoT promises for years and can see how Microshare is right now uniquely capable of delivering on those promises.”
During his Microsoft corporate real estate tenure, Kinzer led teams responsible for supply/demand and occupancy planning for the Puget Sound campus which at the time was 10M square feet across 100+ buildings; planning, transactions, and construction for the North and South America field portfolio of 4M square feet across 140 sites; and planning, transactions, construction, and facilities management for the Eastern US Regional portfolio of 1.4M square feet across 45 sites. During his M&A tenure, he led the complex separation and transition program when Microsoft sold the Mediaroom global business to Ericsson in 2013, the Nokia India integration in 2014, and due diligence and post-merger integration for 25 other M&A transactions over 9 years.
Prior to joining Microsoft, Barney spent seven years with Xerox in corporate real estate and corporate finance. He earned a B.S. in Finance and an MBA in Real Estate and Finance from Penn State. He holds a CoreNet Global Senior Leader in Corporate Real Estate (SLCR) designation
Microshare’s pre-configured Digital Twinning solution kits operate separately from sensitive corporate IT networks, enabling clients to securely create a Digital Twin of key physical assets using IoT data to track performance, garner operational intelligence, and collect risk and sustainability metrics. The kits include sensors, LoRaWAN network connectivity, dashboards, alerts, and simple step-by-step instructions that can be installed by non-technical personnel and start producing data on Day One.
About Microshare: Microshare® is the leading data management solution for the IoT era. Microshare leverages data across multiple platforms, providing actionable insights with privacy, security, audit and confidentiality so that our clients can save money, rationalize strategic spending decisions and create new data sharing revenue streams.
For More Information: Contact Michael Moran, mmoran@microshare.io