Paul Golding: Coder, Builder, Transformer.

My Background & Skill Set

Originally from the UK, I am an IEE prize winner with over 30 patents in a wide array of advanced technologies including AI, Bias in AI, Signal Processing, Computer Vision, Computational Aesthetics, Blockchain, Digital Marketing and Analytics.

Somewhat uniquely, I can be a highly-technical product leader, or a highly product-aware technical leader in deep-tech programs. I have run many “innovation labs” that are like mini orgs within an org. I am hands-on, still inventing many techniques and products. My consulting approach has enabled me unique freedoms to develop a range of unique pursue perspectives.

In 2011, I moved to Silicon Valley after being awarded a rare self-sponsored “Genius Visa”. I confess that I was motivated to avail my kids of Silicon Valley’s innovation potential whilst fulfilling a childhood dream to work amongst the silicon pioneers I had read about whilst growing up.

I designed my first commercial product (X.21 fibre-optic multiplexor) whilst still an undergrad, aged 19, for which I was  awarded the international Von Rheinhold Nostrand prize and the prestigious IEE prize.

At only 22, I won the coveted Motorola global patent of the year for a novel chip co-processor design that enabled radical scaling of cellular networks. My method has been used in trillions of GSM calls.

I went on to become one of the inventors of the mobile app and wrote several leading text books in the field for Wiley Publishing. I also built the world’s first text messaging gateway (for Lucent Technologies) and the world’s first mobile portal for Netscape.

In 2016 I was interviewed by Sergey Brin to run next-generation Google Glass “labs” (my PhD research in the 90s was in augmented reality) but the position didn’t materialize after the demise of Glass and I moved on to work in fintech for a while.

I pioneered the use of various machine learning and AI techniques in the 90s whilst designing one of the first ML chips for digital cellular, which earned me many patents related to co-processor architecture and ML acceleration.

I have helped many of the world’s leading brands with technology transformation, including O2 in the UK where I led the creation of their start-up incubator whilst also building a programmable telecoms platform that included a novel programming language of my own design, called connFu.

I have held Chief Scientist, Chief Architect and CTO “technologist in residence” roles at a number of leading orgs across multiple continents, often working with a high-performing sales culture (note that I am fully trained in SPIN selling).

I have given many keynotes at prestigious corporate and public events, often with a “futurist” slant.

Outside of work, I helped my wife to homeschool three kids by following a “renaissance” style eclectic education program that blended classical education with modern updates, hoping to instill polymathy. I am a proponent of teaching computational-based maths to kids in order to explore foundational ideas versus rote-learning. We were lucky that our kids also gained access to the pioneering EPGY high school at Stanford. Feel free to contact me if you want to know more.

I am a keen student of philosophy of mind, linguistics and aesthetics. I have developed several theories of “cognition” within the realms of building “augmented creativity” tools using AI.

To know more about me and how I can help your enterprise, please contact me.