# Brian Parsonnet

> Brian Parsonnet is a Fort Collins-based engineer, founder and product strategist whose four-decade career runs from control systems and thermal-energy storage to industrial analytics. A co-founder and Corporate Fellow at Seeq, he leads work in product strategy, operational-technology vision, intellectual property and research; he is also an adviser to Ortomation and holds a portfolio of patents spanning software, energy systems, robotics and Smart Grid technologies.

- **Role:** Corporate Fellow and Founder at Seeq
- **Organizations:** Seeq Corporation, Ortomation, Ice Energy, Honeywell, Loveland Controls Company, Princeton University, Columbia University
- **Education:** B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Princeton University, M.S. in control theory / Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Columbia University
- **Known for:** Co-founded Seeq and helped shape its product strategy, operational-technology vision, research and intellectual-property program., Led development of Ice Energy’s Ice Bear thermal-energy storage system; Fast Company reported about 7,000 units sold by 2011., Built a patent portfolio spanning automation, software, thermal storage, robotics and Smart Grid technologies; Ortomation describes a portfolio of 11 patents.

## Career timeline

- **1979-1982** — Worked as a senior engineer at Union Carbide Clinical Diagnostics, according to his public professional profile.
- **1983-1992** — Served in technology leadership at Loveland Controls Company, which he co-founded.
- **1992-2005** — Held senior technical leadership roles at Honeywell, including vice president of technology at Honeywell Loveland and work in product strategy.
- **2003-2013** — Co-founded Ice Energy and served in senior technology roles, including CTO; led development of the Ice Bear thermal-storage system.
- **2013** — Co-founded Seeq with Steve Sliwa, Mark Derbecker and Jon Peterson to improve analysis of industrial time-series data.
- **2023** — Appeared in Seeq’s Conneqt product keynote on scaling digital transformation.
- **2024** — Spoke as a Seeq founder at Conneqt 2024 and became an adviser to Ortomation.
- **2025** — Received U.S. patent grants for multivariate time-series search and classification and for displaying time-series data.
- **Present** — Serves as Seeq Corporate Fellow and Founder, leading product strategy, OT vision, intellectual property and research, while advising Ortomation.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Seeq and helped shape its product strategy, operational-technology vision, research and intellectual-property program.
- Led development of Ice Energy’s Ice Bear thermal-energy storage system; Fast Company reported about 7,000 units sold by 2011.
- Built a patent portfolio spanning automation, software, thermal storage, robotics and Smart Grid technologies; Ortomation describes a portfolio of 11 patents.
- Co-invented patented methods for streaming calculations, multivariate time-series analysis and time-series visualization.
- Has more than 40 years of work in process-industry software, equipment health, analytics, machine learning, maintenance and diagnostics.

## Latest updates

- **2025-03** — A U.S. patent for displaying time-series data, co-invented by Parsonnet and assigned to Seeq, was granted as US 12,248,514.
- **2025-02** — A U.S. patent for multivariate time-series search and classification learning methods, co-invented by Parsonnet and assigned to Seeq, was granted as US 12,229,164.
- **2024-04** — Appeared as a founder and product-keynote speaker at Seeq’s Conneqt 2024 conference.
- **2024** — Joined Ortomation as an adviser on strategy, innovation and operational choices that support growth.

## Links

- Website: https://www.seeq.com/company/team/brian-parsonnet/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianparsonnet

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