Board Members

Shawn Stover

– Haier

Yoon Ho Choi

Head of IoT Business Planning & Partnerships
Digital Appliances / Samsung Electronics – Samsung

As part of the IoT Business Group in appliances, Yoonho leads investigations with goals of expanding the hardware business to include services, commerce and data businesses. He heads cross-industry partnerships globally and is intimately involved with strategic investments to help accelerate the digital transformation. Yoonho brings a unique set of expertise that includes running a start up, mobile telecommunications and product strategy consulting.

Katherine Shin

– Trane
  • Katherine Shin is the Vice President of Customer Experience for the Residential HVAC and Supply business of Trane Technologies, where she leads design and development of critical customer experiences for B2B and B2C channels, data science and advanced analytics, customer insights and research, as well as the connected home strategy and digital deployment for the business.
  • Previously Katherine led the digital business for the Residential HVAC and Supply business, where she drove digital transformation and external partnerships to enable an agile-mindset within the business and implement strategies to drive digital adoption of connected solutions
  • Katherine also previously led strategy and business development for the energy services, controls, and digital business of the commercial HVAC business unit, and has held various roles throughout her 12 years at Trane Technologies in strategy, marketing, innovation, business development, program management, and digital/connected products.
  • She actively participates in many networks to expand her learning and professional development, including ASHRAE, HARDI, women’s network, AMA, United Way, and is in a mentoring program for minority women business professionals in the NOVA region.
  • Katherine resides in the Northern Virginia area with her husband Alan, and dog Minnie.

Andrea Corda

– Electrolux

Experienced Senior Leader of Technology with a demonstrated history in the Consumer goods industry. Skilled in Product and Technology Development as well as Innovation Management. Graduated in Technology with a Master Degree in “Electronics” from Polytechnic of Milan and a Master in “Technology and Innovation Management” from University of Bologna. Currently in charge of Group Technology and CTO at Electrolux.

Mustafa Uğuz

HCA Title
Corporate Title – Arçelik

Mustafa Uğuz was born ,Turkey, in 1981.  He  received B.S. degree  and M.Sc.  from Middle East Technical University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department ,Ankara, Turkey. In his Ph.D. study , he has been at Middle East Technical University, Informatics Institute. He has studied on cybersecurity ,cloud computing, ubiqutious computing and smart grids. His Ph.D. thesis is about the smart  grid transformation   in  Turkey. Since 2004 he has been working for Arçelik as a Technical Leader. Mustafa Uğuz administered and managed several research programs and product development projects in academia and private sector, funded by the Turkish State Agencies,TUBITAK, EU H2020 and Industry. He was  assigned  by TUBİTAK  as a member of TUBİTAK Display Technologies Focus  Expert Group .For the time being  he is the chairman of TOBB Digital Transformation Task Force. He is the chairman of TOBB R&D Centers and University-Industry Collaboration Commision and  the  Executive Board Member of ECİD (Turkish Electronic  Devices Manufacturers Association). He is  also the Arçelik representative at DIGITALEUROPE , APPLIA and EEBUS  in Brussels.