Marc Strub

Head of OT, IT & ISM · Renata (Swatch Group)

Head of OT, IT & Information Security Management at Renata (Swatch Group). I own the plant mandate — governance, risk, and the systems that keep a battery factory running — and I still design and ship what sits inside it. Twenty-plus years from shop-floor PLCs and SCADA to production platforms — MQTT/EMQX messaging, DuckDB analytics, and investigation UIs quality and production actually use. Hire me when uptime, OT isolation, and forensic trust beat another slide deck.

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Experience

Renata (Swatch Group)

Oct 2023 – Present

Head of OT, IT & ISM (Information Security Management)

Own Renata's OT, IT, and ISM end-to-end — risk posture, access models, and change discipline that hold up in audits and on the night shift; accountability stays with the role, not a vendor deck.

  • Ship ADDA on HLL2 — forensic battery-defect analytics from VALTR/MQTT ingest through DuckDB warehouse to a floor investigation UI quality and production rely on under pressure.
  • Design and operate the production MQTT/EMQX backbone — broker topology, OT boundary, and access so PLCs/SCADA feed analytics without flattening security or inviting downtime.
  • Lead OT/IT integration and industrial IAM decisions that survive real incidents — not paper programs that never touch the plant.
  • Apply IEC 62443 thinking to systems that ship — secure IIoT that respects a running factory, not parallel compliance theatre.
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Selected Projects

Cut time-to-root-cause for battery defects on Renata HLL2 — VALTR/MQTT ingest, DuckDB warehouse, investigation UI on the factory floor

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MQTT / EMQX Architecture

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Keep OT isolation intact while PLCs, SCADA, and analytics share production data over a live EMQX backbone

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Skills

  • Security & Governance OT Cybersecurity · Information Security Management · Industrial IAM · Secure IIoT · IEC 62443
  • Industrial & OT MQTT · EMQX · OPC UA · SCADA · PLC · IIoT · OT/IT Integration
  • Data & Databases DuckDB · DuckLake · MotherDuck · PostgreSQL · MongoDB · Schema Design · SQL
  • Data Engineering Apache Spark · Python · Streaming · ETL / ELT · Forensic Analytics
  • Application & Platform Next.js · React · TypeScript · Netlify · CI/CD · Serverless
  • AI & Agents MCP Servers · Analytics Agents · LLMs · RAG
  • Languages Python · TypeScript · JavaScript · Rust · Go · SQL
  • Cloud & Infra AWS · Azure · GCP · Netlify · DNS · TLS · Monitoring
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Achievements

  • Own OT, IT & ISM at Renata (Swatch Group) — governance and delivery in one mandate
  • ADDA live on Renata HLL2 — forensic battery-defect path from ingest to floor UI
  • Production EMQX/MQTT architecture for Renata battery manufacturing
  • Open-source mcp-server-motherduck — agent-safe DuckDB / MotherDuck access
  • Open-source analytics-agent tooling (databao-agent, DuckDB workshop patterns)
  • 20+ years from shop-floor automation to industrial data platforms
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