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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.