Gerd Fromm graduated as a Computer Scientist Engineer in 1998 and joined Roche in the same year as an IT Specialist where he was responsible for Manufacturing IT Systems like Novell Netware, Windows clients and Plant Systems. He started working with the PI System in 2006. In 2008 he moved to the position of Solution Architect for Integration Systems where he designed network architectures for manufacturing plants in Roche. Later in 2013 he became a Business Analyst professional. 2018 Gerd led the implementation of a global PI Platform which holds the PI data of all production plants in a well organized global AF structure and in 2020 he took over his current position as Global IT Product Manager for OSIsoft PI Systems and Applications.