Deo will lead unification of the division’s engineering stack across four operating Companies, and expand the use of AI-assisted development tools
Datavault AI Inc. (“Datavault AI” or the “Company”), a provider of data monetization, credentialing, digital engagement, and real-world asset (‘RWA’) tokenization technologies, announced the appointment of Frank Deo as Chief Technology Officer of its Acoustic Sciences Division.
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Datavault AI has named Frank Deo Chief Technology Officer of its Acoustic Sciences Division, which comprises the ADIO, WiSA, Event Citadel and API Media operations.
Deo assumes engineering leadership of the Acoustic Sciences Division, the Datavault AI business that develops the Company’s ADIO®, WiSA®, Event Citadel™, and API Media technologies for spatial audio, data-over-sound signaling, and live-event systems. He has served as Vice President of New Media Technology at API Media, where he led product engineering for the ADIO platform, and reports to David Reese, President of the Acoustic Sciences Division.
The appointment builds out the leadership of the division that Datavault AI is evaluating for a potential dividend spin-out into a stand-alone public company, as the Company disclosed on May 7, 2026. As stated in that disclosure, the proposed transaction remains subject to approval by the Company’s board of directors, a definitive agreement, satisfaction of closing conditions, and any regulatory approvals that may be required.
In the role, Deo’s mandate is to unify the division’s engineering stack across its acquired operations, expand the use of AI-assisted development tools, and standardize engineering processes across teams. Objectives include the simplification of underlying architecture and the lowering of operating costs as the division scales.
Deo has more than 30 years of experience building large-scale media, data, and platform technologies. He has held senior engineering and product leadership roles at Imagine Communications, 605 (an iSpot company), Cadent, Johnson & Johnson, and Comcast, and is a Technical Emmy Award winner and inventor on 31 issued U.S. and international patents.
“This division has real technology and real deployments behind it, and my job is to make the engineering faster and cleaner,” said Frank Deo, Chief Technology Officer of Datavault AI’s Acoustic Sciences Division. “That means one engineering stack instead of four, AI-assisted tooling on the repetitive build work, shared processes across every team and an architecture designed to scale efficiently as the division grows.”
“Bringing these teams under one technical vision is how we turn four strong companies into one platform,” said David Reese, President of Datavault AI’s Acoustic Sciences Division. “Frank has done this before at scale. What we are after is greater collaboration across the IT teams in every entity in the division, and a faster path from idea to product.”
“Frank is exactly the kind of builder we want leading this platform as it grows,” said Nathaniel T. Bradley, CEO of Datavault AI. “Strong technology and strong leadership are what make a platform durable, and Frank strengthens both.”
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