Cologne Bonn Region
Maximilian is an experienced tech executive on a mission to democratize accelerated computing, enabling intelligent electronic products of the future. He is currently serving as a Senior Director at AMD, the leader in high performance and adaptive computing, building AI compilers and other disruptive developer tools for customers targeting FPGAs, AI Engines and future heterogeneous computing platforms. He was the Co-founder and CEO of Silexica leading a stellar team from the spin-off from RWTH Aachen in 2014 until the acquisition by Xilinx in 2021. It served innovative companies in the automotive, robotics, wireless communications, aerospace, and financial industries and had raised $28m from leading international VCs. He turned founder to business angel to pass on his learned lessons to the next-generation of founders. He invests in disruptive, deep-tech companies with passionate founders in the domains of ML/AI, infrastructure and developers tools with the goal of making the world more prosperous, sustainable, and resilient. Max received a Computer Engineering diploma from RWTH Aachen University in 2010 and was formerly the Chief Engineer of the Chair for Software for Systems on Silicon leading 15 research assistants. His academic research has been published in over 20 publications in international computing conferences and journals. Before switching to management, he was an active open source contributor in large projects such as Symbian and OpenOffice, where he won the Gold Community Innovation award. He was selected as Germany's Top 40 under 40 in 2019.
Leading the Adaptive Computing Tools group at AMD. Focused on building disruptive compiler-based AI developer tools for customers targeting embedded and client devices.
Small investments into disruptive tech companies in the domains of infrastructure, Enterprise ML/AI and Deep Tech: ๐ป ๐๐ง๐๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ โข ๐๐๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ฆ๐ฌ: Next-generation security with confidential computing โข ๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐๐ค: Unified control plane for GPU orchestration โข ๐๐ฒ๐ฅ๐ข๐: Disruptive Lithium-ion battery recycling for a true circular economy โข ๐๐ซ๐๐๐ง ๐๐๐ฒ: Making goods accessible anytime for everyone ๐ก ๐๐ง๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ ๐๐ ๐๐จ๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ โข ๐๐๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฒ: User analytics for Agentic AI โข ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ง๐ญ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐๐ง๐๐: Safe deployment of AI systems โข ๐๐ซ๐๐๐๐๐ฅ๐จ๐: Securely collaborate to develop AI models on proprietary data โข ๐๐ฉ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐๐ฅ ๐๐: Spatial Foundation Models that can generate entire 3D environments โข ๐๐ฟ๐น๐ฒ๐พ๐๐ถ๐ป ๐๐: Next-Gen Data Analysis for insights and resilience in a volatile world โข ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ก๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐: Next-gen logistics software, starting with real-time D&D cost Reduction โข ๐ง๐ฎ:๐๐๐ ๐๐ฅ: All your legal needs in one place ๐๐๐๐๐ฉ ๐๐๐๐ก โข ๐๐๐๐๐๐: Scalable fleet mapping for autonomous driving โข ๐๐ฒ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐๐ฉ๐๐๐: Running real-time search at a billion scale using the Search Processing Unit (SPU) โข ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ ๐จ๐๐๐ฅ ๐๐ฉ๐ญ๐ข๐๐ฌ: Revolutionizing optics for solving nausea for AR/VR โข ๐๐ฒ๐ง๐ญ๐ก๐๐ซ๐: Democratizing In-Memory Computing
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Continuing to lead the former Silexica team, building disruptive developer tools for customers targeting FPGAs, AI Engines and future adaptive computing platforms. Xilinx has been aquired by AMD in February 2022.
Silexica provides a software development platform reducing time-to-market of innovative software IP and intelligent products. Enabled by deep software analysis, heterogeneous hardware awareness and quick design space exploration, the SLX programming platform accelerates the journey from software to application-specific hardware systems, democratizing accelerated computing. Silexica has been aquired by Xilinx in June 2021