Mission

We help Energy and Manufacturing sectors operate with confidence by ensuring their operational data is reliable, accessible, and actionable.

A Message From Our Founder

Industrial companies invest heavily in technologies to drive digital transformation, yet many struggle to realize value at scale. The challenge isn't the technology itself. It's the absence of modern governance approaches needed to maintain and sustain these systems over time.

After over a decade working hands-on with PI Systems across oil & gas, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals, I witnessed this pattern repeatedly. Teams would deploy powerful technologies, only to watch trust erode, undermining operations, analytics, and AI initiatives. Without proper governance, even the best technologies fail to deliver on their promise.

I founded Tycho Data to change this. Our mission is to empower industrial teams with modern, automated governance that ensures their technology investments deliver sustained value—enabling confident decisions, accelerating digital initiatives, and building trust in the data that powers their operations.

Jie Chou
Founder & CEO

Leadership Team

Jie Chou, PhD

Founder & CEO

Formerly at OSIsoft (AVEVA), Jie brings over a decade of leadership across Product, Engineering, and Professional Services. He has partnered directly with Fortune 500 companies to design and deliver mission-critical industrial data solutions that drive operational excellence.

Tony Yu, PhD

R&D

Experienced software engineer with deep expertise in designing and architecting scalable platforms, ensuring Tycho Data's solutions are robust, secure, and built for industrial scale.

Team

John Veldhuis

Strategic Account Manager

Experienced strategic account manager focused on building trusted partnerships with industrial clients and ensuring successful implementation of Tycho Data's solutions.

Staff Software Engineer

Walter is a full-stack engineer driving product development with expertise in building user-centric, scalable industrial software applications.

Martin Bryant

Principal Solution Engineer

30+ year PI veteran and former OSIsoft & AVEVA trainer, field service engineer, and technical advisor. Nine-time PI World presenter who has led 100+ global installations and taught thousands of students through PI courseware he helped develop.

Advisors

Steve Walsh

GTM Advisor

Seasoned enterprise software executive with deep experience in industrial markets. Steve brings decades of expertise from Oracle and other leading enterprise software companies, advising Tycho Data on go-to-market strategy and scaling solutions for the industrials sector.

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