WHITE
Scott
Chief Executive Officer of the Pragmatic Semiconductor
Organization: Pragmatic Semiconductor
Profession: Chief Executive Officer
Biography
Scott White is an experienced serial entrepreneur, now leading his sixth technology venture as CEO of PragmatIC Semiconductor. He is also an Advisor at venture fund Deeptech Labs.
Education
Scott graduated from the University of Western Australia with a 1st class degree in Pure and Applied Mathematics and Information Technology. His honours thesis was focused on neural networks and syntactic machine learning, long before the recent explosion in interest around these techniques.
Career
He has since lived and worked across the globe (including Asia, the US and the UK) and over the past 25 years has built and sold five technology businesses. Most recently, he was co-founder and board director at visual AI company Cortexica, acquired by Zebra Technologies. Past successes include Azea Networks, which he grew from concept to 8 figure sales levels before acquisition.
In his current role as CEO of PragmatIC Semiconductor, Scott has led the development of a unique low-cost flexible electronics platform able to connect everyday objects to the Internet of Everything, and is now championing applications of this technology across key societal challenges including sustainable growth and ubiquitous healthcare.