David Moloney 🍉

CTO

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland37 yrs 10 mos experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Over 20 years in semiconductor and AI leadership.
Co-founded Movidius, leading to Intel acquisition.
Expert in deploying edge AI solutions across industries.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a semiconductor and AI solutions expert with extensive leadership experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial IntelligenceSemiconductorsProduct ManagementEngineering

Other Skills

Edge AI solutionsAI incubatorSoC architectureTechnical salesR&D fundingProduct strategyIncubator managementProduct developmentVPU designMicroarchitectureTechnical due diligenceBluetooth platform developmentMixed-signal designLow-power designFundraising

About

David is a seasoned semiconductor and systems entrepreneur and leader with over 20 years of experience in the field of computational imaging and visual awareness. He is currently the Chief Scientist at Ubotica Technologies, where he is responsible for deploying edge AI solutions for diverse domains such as space, robotics, and consumer electronics. Previously, he co-founded and served as the CTO of Movidius, a company that developed mobile vision processor technology and was acquired by Intel in 2016. At Movidius, he led the design and architecture of the Myriad VPU products, which incorporated hardware sparsity support, SHAVE VLIW microarchitecture, and CMX interconnect and memory fabric. He holds a PhD in Engineering from Trinity College Dublin and has multiple patents, publications, and awards in his name. He is passionate about bringing innovative ideas from concept to commercial product, building high-performance teams, and securing funding from various sources.

Experience

37 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

8 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

5 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Ubotica technologies

Chief Scientist

Jan 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 4 mos · Ireland

Deploying Edge AI solutions, to infinity, and beyond

Edge AI solutionsArtificial IntelligenceSemiconductors

Movidius

Founder, CTO

Jun 2005 – Dec 2020 · 15 yrs 6 mos · Dublin, Ireland

Post acquisition by Intel I ran a highly successful AI incubator in @talentgarden Dublin on behalf of IntelMovidius with very successful outcomes for participants such as #Aerodrums (new product development), #Tomra (new product development), #SpriteRobotics (trade sale) and #Luxonis ($1.358M #Kickstarter round)
Pre acquisition I worked building the team from the ground up and defining the architecture for Movidius' first and second generation SoC products.
Second generation product planning, developing funding proposal and set up of Belfast design-centre. Recruiting and motivating the design-team. Identifying and patenting IP.
Technical sales and design-win activity.
Defining Movidius' technology roadmap and product strategy with the management team.
Raising external R&D funding such as the EU FP7 PEPPHER project (http://www.peppher.eu).
Technical reviewer of Artemis framework (EU) project in the area of Electronic System-Level Design Automation for (Networked) Embedded Systems called CRAFTERS
VC fundraising.
Running Movidius' technical advisory board. Recruitment and remote design-centre setup.

AI incubatorSoC architectureTechnical salesR&D fundingProduct strategyProduct Management+1

Silansys semiconductor

Consultant

Jan 2003 – Nov 2005 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Dublin, Ireland · On-site

SW MoMedia MIDI synthesizer product development at Silansys prior to acquisition. Participated in the acquisition of Silansys by Frontier Silicon in terms of technical and financial due diligence. Post-acquisition drove the recruitment of the development team (hardware and software). Also participated actively in product definition, strategy and key customer visits for the Frontier mobile TV "Paradiso" chip.

Product developmentTechnical due diligenceEngineeringProduct Management

Ceva, inc.

Technical Director

Jul 1994 – Dec 2002 · 8 yrs 5 mos · Dublin, Ireland

CTO role for the Wireless BU at the company now known as Ceva after a merger in 2002. Developed Bluetooth platform from concept to viable IP product. Built team including embedded SW and HW from ground up. Drove technical sales process playing a key role in winning $13M worth of business. Founder member of Parthus team. Helped develop and actuate IPO plan. Post IPO heavily involved in M&A and new technology development.

Bluetooth platform developmentTechnical salesEngineeringProduct Management

St microelectronics

Principal Design Engineer

Jan 1990 – Jun 1994 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Cornaredo (MI), Italy

Founder member of hard-disk R/W channel IC development team in Castelletto (MI) Italy. Designed products with mixed-signal team which went on to generate >$130M for ST.

Mixed-signal designEngineering

Infineon

Senior IC Design Engineer

Oct 1985 – Dec 1989 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Munich, Germany

At that time the company was called Siemens Halbleiter (Semiconductor) AG and I was based in Munich (BRD). Developed low-power telephone dialer and LCD controller chips.

Low-power designEngineering