Co-founder, Syllogism
Architecture depth, on your side of the table.
Dave spent fifteen-plus years in solution engineering, ran Q Branch as ANZ Director at Salesforce, and holds a US patent. He's an MBA from Quantic, hosts the AI Operators podcast, and runs an active AI architecture practice across his holding company portfolio.
He brings the architectural and operator depth into every Syllogism workshop, including hands-on time with the agents, harnesses, and workflows leadership teams are being sold every week.
Salesforce Q Branch · US patent holder · MBA (Quantic) · Host, AI Operators podcast
Why he's in the room
The architect who's still building.
Most people advising boards on AI haven't written a prompt this quarter. Dave has written a system this week. The agents, harnesses, memory layers, and workflows leadership teams are being asked to take a position on are the same ones he's running, breaking, and rebuilding inside his own holding company.
That hands-on depth is what makes the workshop teardown work. When your team puts a process on the whiteboard, Dave can read it at the architectural layer in real time, not from a slide a vendor sent him last week.
Eleven years at Salesforce in Q Branch sits underneath it. That's the sales engineering division that builds the demos and reference architectures the rest of the industry sells against. He has read every vendor pitch your team is about to see, from the build side.
Credentials
What he brings into the room.
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Salesforce Q Branch, ANZ Director
Eleven years at Salesforce running the regional Q Branch sales engineering division. Built the demos and architectures that closed the deals enterprise vendors still trade on today.
02
US patent holder
Inventor on US 10,885,911 B2 (interface system for chatbot integration). Knows the architecture of the agent layer, not just the prompts on top of it.
03
Working AI architecture practice
Runs a live agent and memory architecture across his holding company portfolio. The systems leadership teams are being sold every week, he's running on Monday morning.
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Operator credentials
Bachelor of Computer Science. Executive MBA (Quantic). Hosts the AI Operators podcast. Engineer-trained and P&L-trained, which is the pairing the AI conversation in your business is missing.
Career
Where it came from.
2023 – present
Founder, Valid Agenda Pty Ltd
Holding company portfolio
Runs an active AI architecture practice across a portfolio of software and advisory pillars. Syllogism is the workshops business inside it.
2011 – 2023
Director, Solutions (Q Branch, ANZ)
Salesforce
Led regional strategy for Salesforce's most senior sales engineering division. Twenty million plus in attributable closed revenue annually.
2010 – 2011
Account Executive
Telstra Business
Grew portfolio revenue to 110% of target. Recognised as a subject matter expert in cloud services.
2007 – 2010
Manager, Technology & Sales Enablement
Mobile Mentor
Designed and delivered technical onboarding for mobile enterprise solutions across ANZ.
Off the desk
Disciplines that punish noise.
Time outside the laptop is spent on precision, repetition, and small margins. Formula 1, karate, and quantitative trading. The same posture shows up in the workshops: small claims, tested twice, and no shortcuts dressed up as breakthroughs.
Read the broader perspective on the Syllogism story, or hear it weekly on the AI Operators podcast.
Talk to Dave
Book a scoping call with Dave.
Twenty minutes to work out whether an in-house Syllogism workshop is the right shape for your leadership team or board.
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