Anes Hodžić is Vice President Digital Transformation and Internet of Things (IoT) at Digital Transformation Office of Airbus Group. He is responsible for strategy and execution of IIoT initiatives across Airbus divisions and drives Digital Transformation of the company on the Group level. He is an execution driven professional with a strong entrepreneurial mindset, strategic thinking, passion for digital disruptions and new business creation. He managed strategic corporate projects, led customer engineering of electric and self-driving cars, and has board of directors’ experience.He joined Airbus in 2017 after 12 year working journey with BOSCH from R&D trainee to general manager of connected services business unit. He possesses wide industry experience in Automotive, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics, and Aerospace.Anes holds a doctoral (Dr.-Ing.) and a diploma degree in electrical Engineering / Telecommunications from the Technical University Berlin, Germany and an executive MBA degree from Ashridge Business School, UK.On joining the IOTA FoundationFuture cross-industrial deployment of Industrial Internet of Things use-cases requires innovation solutions for data exchange, transactions management, and process traceability. Distributed ledger technology (DLT) provided by IOTA and its recent developments, can be an important game changer for novel business models and IoT enabled use-cases, focusing on providing value-add in industrial context and beyond.It is my pleasure to join the advisory board of IOTA foundation. I’m looking forward to help IOTA team driving the revolution of IIoT by enabling disruptive industrial use-cases and new big data driven business models.We are very excited to have Anes as an advisor to the IOTA Foundation. His experience with digital transformation within big industrial companies coupled with his deep expertise in the field of Industrial Internet-of-Things will be a great asset for the Foundation in the IIoT.Welcome Anes Hodžić to the IOTA Foundation was originally published in IOTA on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.