Liran Bar serves as Vice President of Business Development at Hailo, a global leader in AI chip development. Liran has two decades of experience in the semiconductor industry, with senior positions at several multinational companies, including CEVA (a licensor of vision DSP and AI cores), Altair Semiconductor, (provider of single-mode LTE solutions), and DigitalOptics Corporation (DOC) (worldwide leader in Micro-Optics). His extensive contribution to Israeli startup TransChip helped paved the path for its acquisition by Samsung in 2007.
Liran’s deep understanding of business planning, startup growth, and product marketing prepared him for his leading role in the launch of Hailo’s deep-learning processor, the Hailo-8, which is now being sampled by major OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers across the globe. He holds a B.Sc in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Ben Gurion University of the Negev.