FrontierNeuron.ai
Team of domain experts, product managers, device engineers, security engineers, program managers and supply chain specialists with a track record of delivering full system solutions in domain-specific markets. Collective track record of delivering products in markets such as IP, Semiconductor, networks, software and edge devices. Experience in both consumer, enterprise and defense markets.
Mazen Labban CPO and Strategy
Mazen Labban is a seasoned Product Management Executive with over 30 years of experience driving innovation across AI, IoT, 5G, Cloud, and Device technologies. He held leadership roles at Amazon, Intel, Qualcomm, and Motorola. He launched connected device systems. He forged key partnerships and delivered growth product strategies.
Kevin Smith CMO
Kevin Smith is a creative and strategic entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience at companies such as Oracle and Sun Microsystems designing, developing and selling technology to Fortune 100 companies. He drives marketing to map embedded technologies into the requirements of the customers.
Marc Canel CEO
Marc Canel brings over 35 years of experience in processor and systems, driving products and business development across global markets. He has held senior leadership roles at Ventana Micro Systems, Imagination Technologies, Arm, Qualcomm, and IBM. He led the rollout of advanced high performanceprocessors, data networking products and security technologies.
Luis Pineda President
Luis brings to FrontierNeuron more than 35 years of leadership experience in the semiconductor industry. Luis served as a senior executive at Qualcomm’s multi-billion dollar semiconductor business for over 18 years.
· As a founding member of Qualcomm’s semiconductor business, he held the position of Senior Vice President, leading QCT’s product management, marketing, and business development through its early start to industry market share leader in semiconductor and software solutions for mobile phones, PCs, tablets and wireless infrastructure.
· Luis is currently an executive advisor for several high-tech companies, both public and private. He has advised companies on systems, hardware, and software for wireless communication, automotive, artificial intelligence, computing and the consumer electronics industries
· He also serves on the Board of Directors for the UC San Diego Alumni Association, The Jacobs School of Engineering and the University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering Corporate Board of Advisors.
· Luis holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from UC San Diego, Jacobs School of Engineering, and an MBA from UC Irvine’s Paul Merage School of Business.
FrontierNeuron Team
Olivier Coenen, PhD – Foundational Research Scientist: 25 years in industry + 3 PostDoc + PhD; most recently Principal/Senior Research Scientist at BrainChip (Apr 2021–Sep 2025)
Olivier J.-M. D. Coenen is a foundational research scientist in deep learning and neuromorphic engineering, focused on spatiotemporal neural networks and neural state-space models (SSMs) for efficient, streaming inference from datacenter to edge. He earned his PhD in Physics/Biophysics at the University of California, San Diego and The Salk Institute under Prof. Terrence J. Sejnowski, where he was an early adopter at UCSD of artificial neural networks (parallel distributed processing) before they became known as modern deep learning. Olivier founded and led the Neuroscience Group at Sony Computer Science Laboratory – Paris (2001–2008), creating and coordinating two top-ranked EU consortia—SPIKEFORCE (EUR 2.4M) and SENSOPAC (EUR 6.5M)—and leading research in real-time spiking neural networks, cerebellar motor control for robotics, and active multimodal perception. He later developed spiking motor-control models and a DARPA “artificial nervous system for UAVs” at Brain Corporation (2010–2013), contributing to Series B financing with Qualcomm Ventures and producing numerous patents. He co-founded Intentiva (2013–2014) and then founded Qelzal Corporation / Kelzal (2014–2020), building low-latency event-based perception and processing stacks (recognition, tracking, stereo vision, optic flow, IMU-driven image stabilization, frequency estimation, registration, denoising, resolution enhancement, and image reconstruction) deployed on drones, vehicles, retail, and security systems, supported by NSF and DARPA funding. Most recently, at BrainChip (April 2021–September 2025), he served as Principal/Senior Research Scientist, inventing PLEIADES and SCORPIUS and co-inventing TENNs used in Akida 2.0+ and Akida GenAI silicon, delivering state-of-the-art results across event-based and continuous-signal benchmarks (including RadioML 2018 automatic modulation classification) and leading a U.S. Air Force research program ($1.8M). Across academia and industry, he has led more than $15M in funded programs and produced 50+ publications and 13+ patents.
We look forward to learning about your company's specific requirements and challenges in today's rapidly evolving AI and Edge Device market. Utilizing AI at the Edge brings tremendous resource utilization and saving that directly affects your industry's bottom line.