John Siemon

John is has been actively involved in the development of connection systems since graduating from college, starting with an engineering position at Teradyne from 1982 to 1985. He then joined the Siemon Company and was responsible for establishing its Development Engineering Group and R&D Laboratory. He currently holds the positions of Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Global Operations. Since taking Operations responsibility in 2002, Siemon has opened manufacturing and logistics locations in Mexico, China, Czech Republic, India and Brazil, and has implemented a unified global ERP platform for order processing, inventory management, planning and production control. All of these operations and systems have been certified to both ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 standards governing quality and environmental management systems.

Having served with distinction on industry standards boards since 1988, John has held a number of leadership positions, including Chairman of the TIA TR42.1 subcommittee responsible for commercial IT cabling (authors of TIA-568-B.1 and Building Automation Systems Cabling standard TIA-862); Chairman of the US advisory group on international cabling standards (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 25/WG 3; authors of ISO/IEC 11801); and Chairman for BICSI's Technical Information and Methods Committee (authors of the Telecommunications Distribution Methods Manual and others). He is chairman of the US Advisory Group on Interconnection of Information Technology Equipment (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 25) and Project Manager for Amendments 1 and 2 of ISO/IEC 11801. He is a named inventor on over 50 US patents in the field of telecommunications cabling.