Donal Waide is the global director of business development for frame grabbers,  part of the Industrial Cloud and Video Group, Advantech (Taipei, Taiwan). He became a member of the Advantech team in October 2023 after Advantech acquired Waide's previous employer, BitFlow (Woburn, MA, USA), where Waide was the Director of Sales, a role he held for 13 years. Educated at the University of Limerick, Ireland, he now resides just outside Boston, MA, USA, where he has lived for over 30 years. Waide has been involved in the machine vision world since 1997.  

 

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