Ben Vigoda

CEO and Founder at Gamalon

Ben Vigoda is the CEO and founder of Gamalon. Prior to Gamalon, they served as the general manager at Analog Devices from June 2011 to December 2014. Before Analog Devices, Vigoda was the CEO and technical co-founder of Lyric Semiconductor from October 2007 to June 2011. Ben has also served as a visiting scientist at the MIT Media Lab from December 2004 to June 2010.

Vigoda’s research focus is on statistical inference, analytics, and machine learning algorithms. Ben developed this technology while completing their PhD at MIT and continued to develop it as their research focus at Mitsubishi Research Labs. Under Vigoda’s leadership, Lyric Semiconductor was the first company to develop hardware architectures for statistical inference, analytics, and machine learning algorithms.

Lyric Semiconductor was successfully acquired by Analog Devices in 2011. At the time of the acquisition, Lyric had over 90 patents. The company was named one of the 50 most innovative companies by MIT Technology Review in 2010.

Ben Vigoda received their PhD in Circuit Architectures and Compilers for Statistical Physics and Machine Learning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ben also holds a BS in Physics from Swarthmore College.

Some direct reports include Sanji Alwis - VP Business Development, Bryan Sadowski - VP Customer Success, and Matt Finn - Chief Financial Officer.

Timeline

  • CEO and Founder

    Current role

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