Max continues to lead the world of intelligent devices after his pioneering breakthroughs in brain-inspired computing. He has spoken at numerous events including a keynote at Mobile World Congress Drone Summit, TedX, NASA, the Pentagon, GTC, InterDrone, GE, Air Force Research Labs, HP, iRobot, Samsung, LG, Qualcomm, Ericsson, BAE Systems, AI World, ABB and Accenture among many others. His work has been featured in TIME, IEEE Spectrum, CNN, MSNBC, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, Fortune, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Nasdaq, Associated Press and hundreds more. He holds several patents and two PhDs: Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University; Experimental Psychology, University of Trieste, Italy. Max’s appetite for advanced technology rivals his anachronistic music taste, saying “I don’t listen to Beethoven, he’s too commercial”.
Heather contributes diverse executive skills ranging from overseeing multi-million dollar applied research initiatives, strategic planning, product management, and leading translation of research into commercial products. Heather has spoken at TechCrunch, Forrester, The Robotics Summit and more. She was honored as a finalist in EY's prestigious Entrepreneur of the Year award and at Google's headquarters as being one of the Top 10 Women in Cloud emerging technology. Heather has served as the Executive Director of the NSF-sponsored CELEST Science of Learning Center at Boston University. She holds a PhD in Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University and a BS in Cognitive Neuroscience, University of California at Berkeley. Heather was the first person in her family to graduate college.
Anatoli has over 20 years of experience developing massively parallel software for neural computation, he is a pioneer in applying general-purpose computing on graphics processing units to neural modeling. Anatoli has spoken at every major neural network conference as well as at GTC, DARPA, The National Institute for Aerospace and a keynote at the Embedded Systems Conference. He holds several patents, has authored over 30 publications on neural networks, and advises Fortune 500 companies on how to use AI to improve operational efficiencies. He has a PhD in Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University; an MS in Computer Science. The highest he has been is 3122m above sea level and the lowest is 30m below sea level.
Dan brings over 25 years of financial and operations experience. His career includes diverse public and private company experience, from Fortune 500 to venture-backed start-ups, and Big Four public accounting. He is experienced in complex mergers and acquisitions, has managed debt and equity raises totaling over $150 million, and driven process and operational improvements and infrastructure build out. He was previously CFO at Vitrue (acquired by Oracle), Kova Solutions (acquired by Berkshire Hathaway) and SiteAdvisor (acquired by McAfee). He holds a BS, with honors, from Boston College. Dan spent his honeymoon at the US Open in Oakmont, PA.
Daniel Glasser has over 15 years of experience delivering innovative technology solutions for Fortune 100 companies, government agencies, and startups. Daniel specializes in AI-based solutions in a number of industries including manufacturing, automotive, logistics - and smart devices. Daniel holds an MBA from Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. When he’s not working, he is an avid cyclist and puzzle-solver and is on a 3-year streak completing the NY Times crossword.
Ben is a Principal at Pelion Venture Partners. He’s inspired by entrepreneurs who are leveraging technology to change the world and has advised a diverse set of companies from ecommerce to artificial intelligence. Ben currently serves on several boards including Fastdata.io and Teal Drones. He holds both a BS in Economics and an MBA from Brigham Young University and has received awards from BYU, The Wharton Buyout Competition, Adobe Digital and more. Ben enjoys spending time outdoors with his wife and two daughters and watching college football.
Cesare has been working as a Venture Capitalist since 2010 when he joined 360 Capital Partners after a 4-year experience as Engagement Manager in McKinsey & Company. Cesare invested in several deep tech (e.g. Electro Power System SA – listed EPS.PA and Invendo Medical Gmbh – acquired by Ambu A/S) and digital companies (e.g. Shopfully SpA and Supermercato24 SpA) mainly in Europe. Cesare is a board member of the Italian Association of startups, incubators and venture capital firms. He is a mechanical engineer by training and earned a MBA degree from the Darden Business School of the University of Virginia. Cesare loves cycling and he cycles more than 5.000 miles per year.
Heather contributes diverse executive skills ranging from overseeing multi-million dollar applied research initiatives, strategic planning, product management, and leading translation of research into commercial products. Heather has spoken at TechCrunch, Forrester, The Robotics Summit and more. She was honored at Google's headquarters as being one of the Top 10 Women in Cloud emerging technology. Heather has served as the Executive Director of the NSF-sponsored CELEST Science of Learning Center at Boston University. She holds a PhD in Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University and a BS in Cognitive Neuroscience, University of California at Berkeley. Heather was the first person in her family to graduate college.
Max continues to lead the world of intelligent devices after his pioneering breakthroughs in brain-inspired computing. He has spoken at numerous events including a keynote at Mobile World Congress Drone Summit, TedX, NASA, the Pentagon, GTC, InterDrone, GE, Air Force Research Labs, HP, iRobot, Samsung, LG, Qualcomm, Ericsson, BAE Systems, AI World, ABB and Accenture among many others. His work has been featured in TIME, IEEE Spectrum, CNN, MSNBC, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, Fortune, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Nasdaq, Associated Press and hundreds more. He holds several patents and two PhDs: Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University; Experimental Psychology, University of Trieste, Italy. Max’s appetite for advanced technology rivals his anachronistic music taste, saying “I don’t listen to Beethoven, he’s too commercial”.
Chris is a Partner at Pelion Venture Partners where he has spent the past 11 years investing in early stage software startups. Previously he spent the better part of two decades as an operator in the enterprise software space. In addition to roles in R&D, strategic alliances and corporate development, Chris was a part of network company Novell’s corporate venture organization investing directly in software companies as well as VC funds. Chris enjoys the outdoors and endurance sports and misses his native New England so being involved with Neurala is a win/win!
Matt is Managing Partner of College Heights Partners, a mergers and acquisitions advisory firm specializing in helping software companies maximize their opportunities. Previously he spent 20+ years as an internal M&A professional, notably serving as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at Oracle Corporation as well as heading up the corporate development departments at MEMC and at Sequent Computer Systems. Matt was also CEO of three software companies. Matt is a native of the sparsely-populated Idaho panhandle, and enjoys golf, the beach, and any time he can get with his family of six sons, four daughters-in-law and eight grandchildren.
Nico was directing fundamental privacy-preserving AI research efforts at Apple until 2018. Apple acquired his company Perceptio in late 2014 and shipped the latest iOS, macOS, and iPhone filled with its deep learning technology since 2016. He co-founded Perceptio in 2012 which pioneered privacy-preserving mobile deep learning technology, running entirely on smartphones. He received two M.Sc. in computer science with a focus in Artificial Intelligence. After originating brain-inspired deep neural networks running on GPUs & PlayStation 3s in 2006-2007, he received his Neuroscience Ph.D. from MIT in 2010 and taught GPU & HPC programming at Harvard & MIT. Nico is now in stealth mode, back to research and entrepreneurial trenches, focusing on unsupervised learning (AI) and decentralized intelligence (blockchain) technologies…
