John Merva
Vice President, North America
Gardasoft LLC
John is currently Vice President, North America, at Gardasoft. John was formerly Executive Vice President at Advanced Illumination, Vice President at CCS America, President at Tattile USA and General Manager at RVSI NER. John has been involved in sales, marketing, engineering and installation of machine vision systems for over 30 years. John has been a member or the AIA Board of Directors where he was chairperson for 3 terms as well as a member and chair of the Association for Advancing Automation. John holds a BSEE from General Motors Institute, an MBA from Kent State University and is named as an inventor on multiple patents.