Our Swiss heritage, combined with our core values
of safety, quality, reliability and delivering superior
value to customers are what we’re all about.”
Along with modernising existing installations,
enabling existing structures to be upgraded without
significant impact on the building, breakthrough
technology is constantly being developed. Partnered
with China’s telecommunications and electronics
juggernaut Huawei, Schindler is using cutting-edge
digital technology to connect new elevators and
escalators, and retrofit old installations with sensors
and implementing the Internet of Elevator and
Escalator solution, branded as Schindler Ahead, to
connect hundreds of thousands of elevators and
escalators around the world from a single platform.
Data will be transmitted in real time to
trigger service visits in order to prevent potential
malfunctions, which will eliminate safety risks
and improve reliability while extending the service
life. Intelligent access solutions are also being
constantly developed, including myPORT, a unique
smartphone-based service providing buildings with
higher security, seamless personalised transit and
facial recognition technology.
“We don’t accept off-the-shelf solutions,” says
Daryoush. “We work closely with our partners to
produce tailor-made solutions we think will work
best with us. It’s a two-way street. We don’t just
design things and tell them that’s what they need
to do. We value their input and work together.”
Daryoush is as international as his company. Born
and raised in Tehran, he was schooled in America,
theceomagazine.com | 121where he earned his master’s in Engineering as well
as an MBA, before launching his career with Otis
Elevator Company and moving to Dubai with the
Carrier Corporation. He returned to Otis in 2014
as Vice President Service for China before moving
across to Schindler a year later.
He is fluent in Farsi and English and speaks
Mandarin, sliding seamlessly from culture to culture
in both his personal and professional life. His wife is
Chinese and he’s the father of two young boys and
a newborn daughter. All three languages are spoken
at home and holidays are spent visiting family in the
US or Iran, or heading somewhere remote to relax.
“For me, relaxation means to stop thinking
about work,” says Daryoush. “To some extent,
that’s a little difficult in a world where we are
constantly connected, but I manage. It helps if we
go somewhere remote where we can get outside
and do physical activities.”
It’s a little ironic when you consider Daryoush’s
business thrives in densely populated cities and busy
buildings where millions of people are reliant on
Schindler transportation systems to get them to their
offices and homes.
“This is why our company is important,”
Daryoush reflects. “We are becoming more and
more urban dwellers, and without Schindler
and the products and services we deliver that
would be not possible. We’re a big part of making
urbanisation possible, and we’re working hard
to make that urbanisation increasingly sustainable
and comfortable.”“It’s interesting
to watch how
quickly a lot
of our new
employees
become
leaders.”
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