Dave Richter

Dave started his career as an Electrical Engineer but for the past three decades has been managing teams across the entire product development cycle from inception through to having products in the market. As Director of Engineering for Synthetaic, Dave leads a team of Ph.D. scientists, AI experts, Full-Stack-Developers, and User Experience professionals unlocking impossible AI in the areas of Medical, Security, and more. As Director of R&D for Johnson Controls (a $30 B/yr public company), Dave had over 100 staff reporting to him across a number of inception-to-market projects including cloud-enabled smart security camera systems. Previously as a senior program manager at Rockwell Automation, Dave oversaw the full electrical, firmware, software, mechanical, and manufacture operations of several types of high-end automation controllers that interfaced with motion-controller, sensors, and computer vision systems and were used in applications ranging from brewery production lines to the pharmaceutical industry.