Charlie Kindel
Control4 Corp., a Salt Lake City automation and networking systems company, has appointed Charlie Kindel as senior vice president of products and services. Kindel has 30 years of experience as a builder of consumer and developer products, platform technologies and partner ecosystems, including 21 years at Microsoft and five years at Amazon. Most recently, he created and led the Alexa and Echo Smart Home efforts at Amazon. At Microsoft, he served as general manager of the Windows phone developer experience. Kindel succeeds Eric Anderson, who announced his retirement plans earlier this year after serving as the company’s product and services executive since 2012.