Experience

Opteran

• United Kingdom
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• COO/ CFO

  • Feb 2021 - Present

  I now work as the COO/CFO of Opteran, a brain biomimicry company reengineering insect brains onto silicon with the purpose of enabling machines to move autonomously like nature. Prior to this I spent over 13 years at Marakon, a boutique strategic and organisational firm, where I was a Director and worked with C-suite executives across a number of FTSE100/250 and European companies. By mimicking real brain structures, we are pioneering a paradigm shift in machine automation that we call… Show more I now work as the COO/CFO of Opteran, a brain biomimicry company reengineering insect brains onto silicon with the purpose of enabling machines to move autonomously like nature. Prior to this I spent over 13 years at Marakon, a boutique strategic and organisational firm, where I was a Director and worked with C-suite executives across a number of FTSE100/250 and European companies. By mimicking real brain structures, we are pioneering a paradigm shift in machine automation that we call natural intelligence. Creating novel solutions for machine vision, sensing, navigation and decision making that run on the edge only (FPGA/ASIC), DO NOT require deep learning or training, ultra-low power, size, only low cost 2D cameras and are verifiable. And the performance is orders of magnitudes better than today's AI approaches. If I can be of assistance, please don't hesitate to reach out. 📨 alexformstone@opteran.com 🔗 www.opteran.com Show less I now work as the COO/CFO of Opteran, a brain biomimicry company reengineering insect brains onto silicon with the purpose of enabling machines to move autonomously like nature. Prior to this I spent over 13 years at Marakon, a boutique strategic and organisational firm, where I was a Director and worked with C-suite executives across a number of FTSE100/250 and European companies. By mimicking real brain structures, we are pioneering a paradigm shift in machine automation that we call… Show more I now work as the COO/CFO of Opteran, a brain biomimicry company reengineering insect brains onto silicon with the purpose of enabling machines to move autonomously like nature. Prior to this I spent over 13 years at Marakon, a boutique strategic and organisational firm, where I was a Director and worked with C-suite executives across a number of FTSE100/250 and European companies. By mimicking real brain structures, we are pioneering a paradigm shift in machine automation that we call natural intelligence. Creating novel solutions for machine vision, sensing, navigation and decision making that run on the edge only (FPGA/ASIC), DO NOT require deep learning or training, ultra-low power, size, only low cost 2D cameras and are verifiable. And the performance is orders of magnitudes better than today's AI approaches. If I can be of assistance, please don't hesitate to reach out. 📨 alexformstone@opteran.com 🔗 www.opteran.com Show less



Marakon

• United States
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director

  • Sep 2007 - Feb 2021

  Boutique strategic and organisational advisory firm focused on helping CEOs and their teams to drive value transformation. Worked across sectors on strategic resource allocation, customer driven business unit strategies, organisational design and M&A. Boutique strategic and organisational advisory firm focused on helping CEOs and their teams to drive value transformation. Worked across sectors on strategic resource allocation, customer driven business unit strategies, organisational design and M&A.