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Profile
Walt Gall serves as Chief Business Officer on Coherent Logix’s executive management team, where he leads Corporate Development, Strategy, and Product. He is a business leader that builds world-class AI teams, products, and strategic partnerships for top-tier start-ups (Saffron, Intel acquisition) and large corporations (Amazon Devices, Meta (formerly FB)). In the past 10 years on executive teams, he has held various leadership roles such as Chief of Staff at Amazon Alexa AI and Head of AI Data at Meta with responsibilities for annual operational planning, 3-year strategy, and managing >$500M R&D and production budgets. He has also led product launches include conversational AI voice assistants on industry-leading consumer and social media devices with cloud-to-edge embedded applications (e.g., Amazon’s Alexa-enabled devices from Echo to Robots to Auto; Meta Assistant on AR/VR devices Portal, Oculus, RayBan, and FB Apps on mobile) and development of 5 enterprise decision support AI/IOT solutions in wellness, health, hi-tech, & insurance sectors (e.g., Intel AI). Earlier in his career, Dr. Gall led software ML-enabled platform teams to launch industry-first precision medicine medical devices and life sciences solutions (e.g., Metabolon, BD). With 20+ years of product management, corporate/business development, and entrepreneurial experience in tech and biotech, Dr. Gall has built new businesses and led teams, raised capital, and managed 1P/3P alliances to scale business units and form channel partnerships to commercialize AI HW/SW products and grow revenue for successful launches and exits.
Dr. Gall received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University and is an advisory Board member for AI start-up companies. He has been a frequently invited conference panelist and speaker on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and next generation hardware/software systems, from embedded devices to cloud.
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