Walter Boyes is a Life Fellow, International Society of Automation (ISA), a member of IEEE, a Fellow of InstMC in the United Kingdom, and a Chartered Measurement and Control Technologist. A 25-year industry leader, he is a principal, since 2002, at Spitzer and Boyes, LLC, an engineering and strategic management consultancy. He was an award-winning editor during his decade (2003-2013) as Editorin- Chief of Control Magazine and ControlGlobal.com.