Overview
Ben Purcell is CTO and Cofounder at Datch[1], an intelligent voice AI platform for industrial environments[2]. Purcell's background is in control systems engineering, with experience in the large-scale energy sector[2]. Purcell worked as a Graduate Electrical Engineer at Transpower NZ from January to June 2010[6], then as HVDC Pole 3 Project Engineer at the same organization from June 2010 to January 2014[5]. Purcell subsequently served as HVDC Control & Protection Engineer at Siemens Energy from March 2014 to August 2016[4]. Purcell holds a Bachelor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering with Honours from the University of Canterbury, completed between 2006 and 2009[7].
Profile introduction
I'm a co-founder and CTO at Datch. Datch is an intelligent voice AI for industrial environments. Working with manufacturers, energy generation, utilities, and transportation, our interactive natural language engine harnesses verbal, conversational dialogue in order to enable frontline workers to capture knowledge as it’s generated, creating a rich informational data set for their organisations. My background is in control systems engineering, having worked for engineering companies in NZ and Germany. I have valuable large scale energy sector project experience in maintenance, R&D, testing and…
Career history
- CTO and CofounderNov 2016 to presentDatch
- HVDC Control & Protection EngineerMar 2014 to Aug 2016Siemens Energy
- HVDC Pole 3 Project EngineerJun 2010 to Jan 2014Transpower nz
- Graduate electrical engineerJan 2010 to Jun 2010Transpower nz
Education
- Bachelor of electrical and electronic engineering with honours2006 - 2009University of Canterbury
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