About

Aispire — we unlock business insights from every bit of data

Backstory

Chances are, you’re not using 90% of your data

  • Data that is valuable to decision makers across your organization
  • Data that is siloed across systems, departments, and geographies
  • Data that in the right hands, can power the next wave of innovation for your organization

Our mission is to unlock the full potential of your data, wherever it resides

  • We connect users and systems with the high-fidelity data they need, at a fraction of the cost
  • We enrich our customers data with AI/ML powered analytics
  • We empower data scientists to build better analytics, faster – with connected environments for training and validation
  • We address the challenges of deploying and managing analytics in the production environments where they have the most impact
  • We protect the sovereignty of your data and intellectual property you develop
Core tenets

To make this possible, we rely on these core tenets:

Access all your data, wherever it resides

We aim to remove roadblocks and connect to your data sources, wherever they are

Make data-centric decisions

Your data has the answers, and our mission is to help you find them. We help transform data into rich insights to help you make better business decisions

Data privacy built-in

Develop insights using the most powerful analytics available without risk to your data or intellectual property

Data sovereignty built-in

By maintaining data close to the source, we enable transparent data governance

Embrace AI/ML

Realize the potential of data processing at scale. Our machine learning pipeline orchestration puts models in production faster, and provides the visibility your business requires
Leadership

Cory Baldwin

President & CEO

Cory has spent the entirety of his career pioneering the development of technology, products, and solutions to address the challenges of the world’s largest and most challenging industries – Infrastructure, Energy, Natural Resources, and Construction.

From focused development and application of novel triple-difference processing techniques for GNSS capable of millimeter-level geospatial monitoring of critical infrastructure – to development of a broad end-to-end IoT platform capable of providing integrated insights across the world’s largest portfolio of structural, geotechnical, environmental, geospatial, and process sensors – he is passionate about addressing customer’s challenges regardless of the scope or complexity.

Cory believes that success comes from the application of technology in a practical way and must enable improved decision-making, enhanced productivity, and effectiveness at both an organizational and individual level – made possible with well-conceived solutions leveraging the best technology, tools, and training.

Paul McCafferty

VP, Engineering

Paul has over 25 years’ experience building stellar engineering teams and enterprise products and solutions that have been deployed across multiple industries.

He has co-founded two venture capital-backed companies and steered them through acquisition whilst delivering solutions that solve some of the most demanding data challenges within high-scale and complex environments.

Paul believes in creating high quality software that is robust but adaptable, ensuring in-production solutions provide exceptional value for many years.

Evan Davis

VP, Network Intelligence Solutions

Evan is a seasoned professional with over 25 years of experience in myriad roles within Silicon Valley startups. With a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Evan has demonstrated a strong blend of technical expertise and sales acumen. Throughout his career, he has achieved consistent success at multiple startup companies, some of which have been acquired by companies such as Cisco Systems and Nokia.

Evan consistently surpassed revenue targets and led the development of innovative network, database, and analytical solutions. With a pragmatic approach and a proven track record of supporting clients of all sizes, Evan continues to make significant contributions to expanding what is possible in the analytical and big data space.

Steven Hauser

Senior Director, Industrial Solutions

Steven has over a decade of engineering and leadership experience building software technology for high performance edge computing and data analytics.

As the first engineer at an industrial technology startup, Steven was a pioneer in the development of their edge predictive analytics software, scaling from a proof-of-concept to a robust platform supporting 24/7 global operations.

Steven’s comprehensive skill set, forward-thinking approach, and commitment to operational excellence have led to consistent delivery of innovative software solutions to some of the most challenging problems in IoT, edge computing, and modern manufacturing.

Chris Whalen

VP, Sales

Chris is a seasoned entrepreneur with a proven track record of igniting explosive growth in startup sales teams. With more than 2 decades of starting and growing sales teams, Chris was instrumental in driving revenue that led to very positive exits at Cariden Technologies (acquired by Cisco in 2012), Deepfield Networks (acquired by Nokia in 2017) and Epiq Solutions (acquired by Veritas Capital in 2022). 

Renee Sass

Chief Financial Officer

With more than 35 years of experience, Sass has held CFO roles in a number of technology, energy and infrastructure companies, ranging from growing start-up companies to mature operating companies. As a partner of Fairlead Advisors, she had held principal and advisory roles with private sector technology startups, global energy companies, venture and private equity investors, and government agencies. From 1991 to 2002, she worked at NRG Energy, Inc. serving in a variety of senior finance and development positions before joining the senior management team as Vice President-Strategic Planning and Portfolio Assessment. Sass holds a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in finance from the University of Maryland, and a Bachelor of Arts in communication arts and business marketing from the Notre Dame of Maryland University

Board 

Marc Sperschneider

Executive Chairman

Founder and CEO of X2 | Equity an investment holding company focused on the funding and scaling of high-tech companies active in advanced systems / sensor technologies, IIoT, AI and industrial software. Former Managing Shareholder of MatriX Technologies (acquired by Nordson Corp.)

Skip Glass

Director

Former Chief Executive Officer and President of URoam (acquired by F5), Chief Operating Officer of Kiva (acquired by Netscape), and VP of Product at Sybase (IPO) before transitioning to venture capital in 2007.

Wim Roelandts

Director

Former Chairman of the Board of Applied Materials and CEO / Chairman of the Board of Xilinx.

Sameer Patel

Director

Cory Baldwin

Director

Former founder and CEO of sensemetrics Inc., with successful exit to Bentley Systems in 2021.

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