WOW great find @thelittleshort
LAGUNA HILLS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / November 20, 2022 / BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX:BRN)(OTCQX:BRCHF)(ADR:BCHPY), the world's first commercial producer of neuromorphic AI IP, has hired Nandan Nayampally as Chief Marketing Officer to drive all aspects of marketing, product management and business strategy for the company's AkidaTM event-based AI neural processor IP, and its portfolio of Essential AI enabling technology solutions.
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Nayampally is an entrepreneurial executive with more than 25 years of success in building or growing technology businesses with industry-wide impact. He was at Arm for more than 15 years in a variety of product marketing and product management leadership roles, eventually becoming vice president and general manager of Arm's signature CPU group and the Client Line of Business, , where he identified key technology investments, developed a strategy and roadmap of products to deliver compelling, market-leading solutions for billions of SoCs, while establishing strategic partnerships and alliances. Nayampally comes to BrainChip from Amazon, where he helped accelerate the adoption of Alexa Voice and other multimodal services into third-party devices.
"I am excited to join BrainChip. Our unique approach to performant and efficient edge AI at scale is a great enabler for an industry that is looking for innovative and transformative solutions" said Nayampally. "It is a great opportunity to not only advance product intelligence at the sensor and the edge but unleash the full power of AI. BrainChip is positioned to create that positive change and I'm thrilled to be a part of making that happen."
"Nandan has a deep technical understanding of semiconductor design and IP as well as the market factors that lead to product success," said Sean Hehir, CEO. "We look forward to leveraging his product experience and executive success at companies like Arm and Amazon to help us deliver BrainChip solutions to the market."
Hmmm.
This is interesting for sure for a few reasons. For one, it may or may not mean that the new guy, I'll call him NN for short (any connection to Neural Networks is purely a coincidence) may or may not be a wonderful addition. Time will tell.
But does anyone wonder about the recent formerly great addition of Jerome Nadal only 9 months ago +/- that resulted in some web site changes and an approximately 60% decrease in a stock price and little or no ASX announced IP deals, and an admittedly catastrophically pathetic 3rd quarter revenue, albeit with a forecasted lumpy revenue stream for the time being (...so we were all told to expect it could be lumpy). Announced partnerships yes, but revenue??? Not so good on the revenue front lately. Was that an issue for Brainchip? Who knows?
Maybe Mr. Nadel accomplished what Sean and Co. expected of him in a record breaking 9 +/- months time and was comfortable riding his 10 speed into the sunset at this time. But as an investor in Brainchip I am always supsicious of any executive hired for stated purpose(s) (marketing) and then replaced by new executive 9 +/- months later by new (marketing) executive. Why,....I wonder?
We investors need more info and I for one expect to get that info some day soon or I will be suspicious that there was a chink in the armor of what I perceive as an otherwise smoothly running startup that was cruising along nicely as one big happy family. Simply put, something is rotten in Denmark until I hear that Jerome moved on for innocuous and or personal reasons. He is not clerical, folks, he is a significant executive and 9 months on the job is not enough time to accomplish much. I am not sure if this is a good move for Brainchip, or not. I do know my eyebrows hit my receding hair line when I read the press release. Yes, I was surprised, to say the least.
But some on this forum have relationships with some at Brainchip and I hope that soon one or more of you can obtain some additonal "color" on this sudden(?) move to replace someone that Sean and Co. were "eager to hand the reins to " for corporate and product marketing,....just 9 months ago. *
* And a comment from our investor relations people to the affect of "there's nothing to see here" is not going to cut it for me......
P.S. I am hesitant to post because others are posting fast and furiously including our esteemed FF who may take me to task for questioning our otherwise brilliant and esteemed management team. Some updates (from FF for example) have already rendered my post recent reveals. Still, I am interested in getting more infor related to this move. I would love to see Sean's 2021 one year plan (hire Marketing exec for 9 months and then hire another person because ..... )
Thanks, .....dippY
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