Over the last two decades, Joel Avrunin has built his career as a business leader and industry-recognized technical expert in metrology with his progressive leadership roles in sales, marketing, business development, and key account management at Teledyne (LeCroy Corporation), Honeywell (Metrologic), Faro Technologies, and Danaher (Tektronix). As a RF/analog design engineer, he found himself drawn to sales and joined the commercial team at Tektronix, where he turned product innovation into commercial success, managing both sales teams and applications engineers. Today he applies that wealth of experience and his unique perspective at Picarro, leading a team that creates and sells solutions using optical spectroscopy to provide timely, trusted, and actionable data for industrial monitoring via a compliance as a service model. He loves to travel and always keeps his eyes open for new running routes and hiking trails when he’s traveling. Joel holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA in Organizational Leadership from Towson University.