Jean-Marc Mensah (P. D.) is Founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of SMARTIFICIAL™ France in Paris, also known as SMARTIFICIAL™ R&D Alliance in North America, an Intel Technology Provider, NVIDIA Partner and R&D collaboration incubator for innovative Artificial Intelligence algorithms and Blockchain Business Solutions

Technology Expertise: High-Performance Computing, Full Stack Software Development, Semiconductor Electronics, Silicon Photonics, Artificial Intelligence, NLP, LLMs and Neural Networks, Generative AI, Compute Accelerators (CPUs/GPUs, NVIDIA), Data Centers, AR/VR/XR, OTA Telematics. Cybersecurity, IC Design Automation, IOT, Hybrid Cloud Computing (AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure), Data Storage, SSD, Computer Vision, Quantum Computing R&D and Blockchain R&D

Before launching the disruptive SMARTIFICIAL™ Accelerator globally in partnership with an accomplished finance and business executive from Silicon Valley, Jean-Marc was already an innovative leader of 15 years with Intel Corporation in various roles ranging from Director of Engineering for IC Design Acceleration on next generation technologies ($70B TAM) to Go-to-Market Director with software development across multiple geographies (North America, Europe, India, Malaysia) and Business GTM Accelerator for internal startup ventures issued from corporate mergers and acquisitions through Intel Labs

Over the last decade, he received Intel Awards for advanced technology innovation, business acumen and customer focus. He achieved a remarkable track record while leading over 200 engineers and contract workers from various backgrounds to consistently deliver results exceeding corporate expectations

Jean-Marc’s corporate experience started at IBM in France (Paris) during the record breaking dot-com era and continued in Silicon Valley California with top companies leading the semiconductor industry transformation

Intel Corporation, Synopsys (EDA), Apple, Cadence EDA, Intersil Corp and Microsoft (AI SDK)

He holds a Masters in Computer & Electrical Engineering and a dual degree in Computer Science & Maths from the Euro-American Institute of Technology and SKEMA Business School (France). Additional focus: MIT AI Executive, Quantum Physics PhD

He is an active member of NASA's Citizen Scientist Program, SETI and IEEE as cryptography researcher (Cybersecurity)

Jean-Marc’s vision to solve Human-AI interfacing challenges is the ambitious goal of SMARTIFICIAL™ as a global network