Maciej Kranz

Kranz's book, Building the Internet of Things is on the New York Times' and USA Today's bestseller lists and was listed as one of the 10 business books every entrepreneur should read in 2017 by Fortune Magazine. The book was also selected as one of the 10 books for innovators and entrepreneurs to read by Economía y Negocios. It has been translated into 10 languages. In 2018, Kranz published Building the Internet of Things - a Project Workbook, a companion to his first book providing interactive steps in planning, implementing, and evaluating IoT projects.

Kranz led the Borderless Networks effort in 2009 and in 2012 became a General Manager of the Connected Industries Group where he drove Cisco's IoT internet of things (IoT) efforts.

Kranz joined Cisco in 1999, where he led marketing for Cisco's stackable ethernet switching business unit. He became Vice President of Marketing for the Wireless Networking Business Unit in 2006, during which time he drove the development of Cisco Motion, a mobility vision architecture.

Maciej Kranz (born 22 November 1964; Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish-American executive, New York Times bestselling author, angel investor, faculty member of Singularity University, and an expert in Internet of Things (IoT) technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, blockchain, and fog computing. He currently serves as Chief Technology Offider at KONE and is a frequent speaker in the fields of IoT and business practices in the tech sector.

Maciej Kranz was born on 22 November 1964 in Warsaw, Poland to Jan and Malgorzata Kranz. He studied at the Warsaw School of Economics, during which he served as National Committee Exchange Controller for AIESEC in Poland. Kranz later obtained his MBA at Texas Christian University.