BrainChip Holdings Ltd. announced the planned retirement of co-founder and CTO Peter Van der Made which is scheduled for the end of the year. Peter has been the face of BrainChip since its inception. His intelligence and energy have been foundational in the creation and growth of the company.

As Brainchip has moved firmly into the commercialization stage, it has added several qualified industry veterans to the leadership team, making it an appropriate time for Peter to retire from his executive position. Peter will continue to serve BrainChip in three meaningful ways. He will continue his service on the board of directors, he will be a member of the Scientific Advisory Board and will advise the Company as Technologist Emeritus.

Further, BrainChip announced Dr. M. Anthony (Tony) Lewis as the new CTO. Tony is the former VP and Global Head of the AI and Emerging Compute Lab at HP Inc., where he played a pivotal role in AI integration across various product lines. Tony also made significant contributions at Qualcomm Inc., where he led the Zeroth© Neuromorphic Engineering Project while contributing to projects in intelligent AI agents and robotics and collaborating closely with Qualcomm Ventures.

Tony has served as a visiting or adjunct professor at the University of Arizona, the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Waterloo. His entrepreneurial experience is evident in his founding of a government funded R&D company specializing in neuromorphic computing and robotics. He has been active as a startup advisor and investor, bringing his technical acumen to various innovative ventures.

Tony holds a Ph.D. and master's in electrical engineering, with a specialization in robotics and neuroscience from the University of Southern California, and a BS in Cybernetics from University of California, Los Angeles.