BrainChip Appoints Sean Hehir as New Chief Executive Officer
15 November 2021 - 10:14AM
Business Wire
Company adds critical leadership to rapidly
drive company from developer to global supplier of next generation
AI technology
BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX: BRN), (OTCQX: BCHPY), a leading
provider of ultra-low power, high performance artificial
intelligence technology and the world’s first commercial producer
of neuromorphic AI chips, today announced it has appointed Sean
Hehir, a proven technology executive with significant experience in
driving explosive revenue growth for the world’s largest technology
organizations, as Chief Executive Officer. He will guide the
company towards full commercialization of its Akida™ neuromorphic
computing platforms out of the new North American offices in Laguna
Hills, California.
Mr. Hehir’s track record of organizational development,
strategic alliances, and go-to-market programs have driven revenue
growth for large technology organizations, including HP, Compaq,
and Fusion-io. As a relationship-builder, he has executed programs
and partnerships with companies such as Microsoft, Intel, AMD,
Oracle, Cisco, SAP, and Accenture. He currently serves as a board
member of the Silicon Valley Executive Network and holds a
bachelor’s in business from the University of Massachusetts at
Amherst plus an MBA from Georgia State University.
“I’m excited to join BrainChip at this pivotal time in their
history. It is a time when the company is heavily invested in
working with partners that will benefit from AI at the edge. I
believe my experience in building strong relationships with
top-tier global clients will prove beneficial to BrainChip as they
enter this next phase of growth,” said Mr. Hehir. “Preparing for
the broad commercial launch of Akida silicon and intellectual
property will be my top priority, so BrainChip can begin its
transformation from a company developing groundbreaking AI
technology to a company supplying cutting-edge markets like
automotive, transportation, consumer, aerospace, medical, and
industrial IoT with the best AI technology available.”
“We are delighted to have Sean join us. Sean’s strength in
building strategic relationships with top global technology
providers, and his ability to lead companies to major revenue
stages, made him stand out to the board during our search,” said
Antonio J. Viana, member of BrainChip’s board of directors and
chair of its Remuneration and Nomination Committee. “We look
forward to Sean making a major impact, from product marketing and
alliances to stakeholder and employee engagement.”
“As outgoing (interim) CEO, I welcome Sean to the company and am
happy to hand over the reins of a world-class company that is in an
excellent position to commercialize our unique product that is
years ahead of the competition. We have every confidence that Sean
is the right executive to guide BrainChip into the future, to make
sound decisions about the business opportunities before us and
ignite industry enthusiasm for the new AI capabilities made
possible by Akida,” said Peter van der Made, BrainChip co-founder
and CTO. “After more than a decade of R&D and design, he will
lead the shift into commercialization and bringing new technologies
to life, which has long been our vision.”
The Akida NSoC and intellectual property can be used in
applications including Smart Home, Smart Health, Smart City and
Smart Transportation. These applications include but are not
limited to home automation and remote controls, industrial IoT,
robotics, security cameras, sensors, unmanned aircraft, autonomous
vehicles, medical instruments, object detection, sound detection,
odor and taste detection, gesture control and cybersecurity.
About BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX: BRN, OTCQX: BCHPY)
BrainChip is a global technology company that is producing a
groundbreaking neuromorphic processor that brings artificial
intelligence to the edge in a way that is beyond the capabilities
of other products. The chip is high performance, small, ultra-low
power and enables a wide array of edge capabilities that include
on-chip training, learning and inference. The event-based neural
network processor is inspired by the spiking nature of the human
brain and is implemented in an industry standard digital process.
By mimicking brain processing BrainChip has pioneered a processing
architecture, called Akida™, which is both scalable and flexible to
address the requirements in edge devices. At the edge, sensor
inputs are analyzed at the point of acquisition rather than through
transmission via the cloud to a data center. Akida is designed to
provide a complete ultra-low power and fast AI Edge Network for
vision, audio, olfactory and smart transducer applications. The
reduction in system latency provides faster response and a more
power efficient system that can reduce the large carbon footprint
of data centers.
Additional information is available at
https://www.brainchipinc.com
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