Walt Gall
Co-CEO, Coherent Logix, Inc.
Walt Gall, Ph.D., serves as co-chief executive officer on Coherent Logix’s executive management team, where he leads Corporate Development, Strategy and Product. He is a business leader who 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, he has held various leadership roles on executive teams such as chief of staff of Amazon Alexa AI and head of AI Data at Meta, with responsibilities for annual operational planning, 3-year strategy, and managing more than $500M R&D and production budgets. He has also led product launches on conversational AI voice assistants on industry-leading consumer and social media devices with cloud-to-edge embedded applications and development of five enterprise decision support AI/IOT solutions in wellness, health, hi-tech and insurance sectors (e.g., Intel AI).
Earlier in his career, Gall led software ML-enabled platform teams to launch industry-first, precision- medicine medical devices and life sciences solutions. With 20+ years experience in tech and biotech, 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.
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.