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Founder
“The vision is a connected enterprise — one that measurably improves performance, efficiency and sustainability.”
Pankaj Shrivastava has spent more than thirty years in industrial automation, and has worked it from every side — the plant floor, the system integrator, and the technology vendor.
He began as an instrumentation and controls engineer at a large fertiliser plant in India: five years on the operating side of a continuous process, where instrumentation either holds or the plant does not run. He then moved to the UAE as an automation project manager with a regional system integrator, delivering projects inside other people's operations and under other people's constraints.
The twenty-six years that followed were spent at Rockwell Automation, most recently as Director of Software, Control and Intelligent Devices — leading a team of domain experts across the Middle East, Turkey and Africa and delivering sustained year-on-year growth. The work covered the full breadth of the modern industrial stack: Industry 4.0 architectures, Industrial IoT, analytics and AI, process control, IT/OT convergence, SCADA, discrete automation and industrial SaaS.
It spanned discrete, process and hybrid applications — aluminium smelters, oil and gas, water, district cooling, rail, infrastructure, general manufacturing, and food and beverage, where continuous process meets discrete packaging. The constraints governing a smelter are not the constraints governing a bottling line, and knowing the difference is most of the job.
Alongside delivery he built the commercial infrastructure that regional industrial technology depends on — defining go-to-market strategy, establishing the ecosystem of distributors and system integrators across META, and working with strategic account teams on long-horizon plans for key regional and global customers.
He founded INOVIQ Technologies to bring that perspective to manufacturers without a product line attached. Having been the customer, the integrator and the vendor in turn, he knows which technologies genuinely earn their cost and which simply sell well — and INOVIQ exists to apply that judgement from the customer's side of the table.