Charlie Kindel, founder of Amazon’s Alexa Smart Home division, has found his next gig, and he ended up there in part thanks to frustrations smartening up his own home.
Kindel is joining Salt Lake City-based Control4, a publicly-traded maker of smart home equipment and software, under the title of senior vice president of products and services. Kindel will lead a team of a “couple hundred” engineers working on a variety of projects, and he will be responsible for coming up with new product roadmaps as well.