Ze'ev Rivlin

Senior BD executive for over 20 years at 5 startups and Intel. Numerous successes winning Multi-$M deals with Tier1 Consumer Electronics OEMs in APAC-J, Europe, and North America. Vast experience with AI and other emerging technologies.

Excellent presenter, blogger, vlogger, technology evangelist. MSEE with Thesis work in sensor fusion. 10 years research scientist developing AI algorithms for AT&T Bell Labs and Stanford Research Institute. Love to engage customers and meet a need on the market!

Consultant | 2025

• Guiding customers on how to use GenAI
• Example Blog - GenAI PoCs & the First-Mover Race
• Example CXO Pitch - How to Use GenAI to Boost Your Business – A Step-by-Step Guide, business impact to deployment (YouTube, LinkedIn post)

Intel Corporation | 2012–2024

2020 – 2024 Senior Business Development Manager

• Conceived and led NLP GenAI initiative to drive Intel HW revenue growth o Defined strategy and plan with milestones o Built cross-functional team: Sales, R&D, marketing, product, operations o Trained hundreds of sales executives o Drove PoCs o Secured lighthouse customers
• Signed Neuromorphic Chip strategic partnership deal with Tier-1 Japanese vendor for elderly care camera

2016–2020 Product Marketing Manager

• Defined 2 generations of AI accelerator (GNA) enabling speech AI features on PC – Worked with multiple BU’s, conducted market research, competitive analysis, technical definitions
• Persuaded OEMs (Design wins with: Lenovo, Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, etc.) to adopt GNA for

Noise suppression in laptop video conferencing

• OEM adoption drove GNA’s inclusion in millions of Intel® EVO™ laptops (See GNA at 1:25–

2:10 in Intel EVO Platform clip)

• Awarded Q1’19 and Q2’19 Division Recognition, Promotion due to Exceptional Performance

2012–2016 Strategic Planner 

• Developed strategy for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) on Intel laptops
• Drove successful PoCs
• Robot Multimodal Human-Machine-Interface for UK Tier-1 Consumer Electronics co.

(leveraged Intel RealSense™ (LiDAR, etc.))

• Kids’ ASR for world-leading US Edutainment company

Wisair | 2010-2012 – Director of Business Development

• Secured OEM PoCs with Tier-1 CE vendors for wireless video HW solution

Commex | 2007-2009 (Smart 10GbE NICs) - VP Marketing & Business Development

• Jointly launched 3 products with HP & VMware

Intel | 2006 – Strategic Planner

• Developed ASR strategy for in-car voice UX targeting GM, Honda, Pioneer, etc. (2006)

Oplus Technologies (Acquired by Intel) | 2004–2006 - Director, Business Development

• Secured Tier-1 design wins (e.g., Yamaha, Harman-Kardon)
• Helped drive ~$100M Intel acquisition through strategic BD and customer traction

VCON| 2002–2003 – Director of Business Development

• Secured OEM PoCs with Tier-1 PBX vendors for early video conf. tech

NSC / SRI (Stanford Research Institute) / AT&T Bell Labs | 1990–2001

• Built AI PoCs (including MAESTRO for gov't), ASR R&D commercialized via Nuance ($221M exit)
• Evangelized ASR for in-car systems; recognized for in-vehicle voice dialing innovation (NSC).

M.S. Electrical Engineering, Drexel University – Thesis: Bayesian Decision Fusion

B.S. Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude, Temple University – President’s Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa