David Nason leads BLDG25’s ongoing innovation initiatives that explore emerging technologies, assessing their application to client business and recommending new strategies and solutions. At BLDG25, he has led development in learning, consumer, enterprise, and security applications, implementing solutions embedded with gamification and behavior-nudging principles.
David is a proven leader in dynamic, high-growth software companies with deep, hands-on technology expertise and proven abilities in software design and architecture, intellectual property strategy, technical vision, and leadership. He has more than 25 years experience as an executive and senior technologist, building success at a number of large, multinational corporations including Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. He also has several years under his belt as a research scientist in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. He’s founded and co-founded several tech startups with more than 10 successful exits aggregating over $50M.
David’s areas of expertise include:
- Cybersecurity, including DevSecOps
- AI, including natural language processing, machine learning, probability networks, and predictive analytics
- Blockchain Platforms, including security tokens, smart contracts, and decentralized application schemas
- IoT, including AIoT, IIoT, sensors, mesh networks, edge, and edgeAI
- Automotive informatics, including image and lidar data analysis for scenario-recognition in collision-avoidance technologies
- Bioinformatics, including image and signal processing, virtual biopsy, and 3d parametric rendering
- Facial recognition, including infrared and 3d mapping.
David has 35 patents issued and other patents pending. He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society.
David’s background includes a graduate degree and post-graduate research in computer science and robotics from Carnegie Mellon University. David got the AI bug as a grad student and research scientist, working on human-computer interaction, cognitive science, and complex information processing with Nobel laureate Herb Simon and Turing Award recipients Allen Newell and Raj Reddy.