Jonathan Ballon

Chairman of Axelera AI

Jonathan has served on the boards of several successful deep-tech companies, including Aspinity, ClearML and Alert 360, and has advised multiple billion-dollar enterprises.

He was General Manager and VP of the IoT business unit at Intel, where he built Intel’s Edge Computing business unit. Under his leadership Intel IOTG has launched Intel OpenVINO™, Intel’s tool suite for high-performance deep learning.

At Cisco, Jonathan designed and directed strategy, planning, and business development for its $10 billion service and solutions division.

He is a regular keynote speaker at major industry events and a contributor to business publications such as the Wall Street Journal, The Economic Times, Newsweek, Business Week, Venture Beat, Tech Crunch, CRN, and Fast Company.