David Pulling

Mr. David Pulling serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Qolsys, Inc.   Qolysis is a venture capital startup with
approximately 80 employees.   Qolsys has a product line that focuses on Home Automation and Security. 

 Mr. Pulling served as President of NetXen, Inc. Prior to joining NetXen, Inc. he was an Executive Vice President of Server Works where he was responsible for sales and marketing activities. As a founding member of the ServerWorks' team, he grew its server chipset business, with a market share of 90%, and played a key role in the sale of ServerWorks to Broadcom.

 Prior to ServerWorks, he held a number of executive management positions at Ross Technology. As Vice President of Strategic Marketing, he was instrumental in taking Ross Technology public in 1995.

 He earned his BSEE in 1986 from West Virginia University, and earned an MBA in 1989 from the University of Dallas.   He began his career after graduation from WVU at Texas Instruments.

Mr. Pulling has returned a number of times to WVU to meet and speak with students, and Qolsys has supported the WVU Solar Decathlon team in the area of home automation.

Dave Pulling is a 1986 WVU graduate in Electrical Engineering. Dave is currently Founder and CEO of Qolsys (Quality of Life Systems) based in San Jose CA. Qolsys innovative products are reshaping the Smart Home and Smart Security markets. Qolsys products Cloudify the home and enable pervasive and complete access and control from your mobile device and are pioneering behavioral learning to improve quality of life, reduce energy consumption, and protect the things which mater most.

Dave started his career as an IC Design engineer at Texas Instruments working on Floating Point processors. These Floating Point chips delivered 1000x increases in scientific computing over the existing Minicomputers at the time. Not content to do just Floating Point CPUs, he joined Ross Technology to help develop a leading RISC microprocessor that combined Integer and floating point CPUs with an advanced cache architecture and claimed the world’s fastest CPU in 1993.

Seeing the opportunity to further commoditize computing he cofounded ServerWorks and used Intel processors as the basis for high-performance Servers while developing advancements Multiprocessing, Memory and I/O controllers. These Servers enabled the today's mega datacenters fueling the creation of Google, Amazon, Facebook and countless others. He sold ServerWorks for $2B in 2001.

Dave's next venture, Netxen, developed a pioneering 80 Gbit Network storage processor that heralded a new age of datacenter network virtualization. He sold this company in 2008.

Dave is married with 4 kids and is a proud Mountaineer and is grateful for his WVU education.

Mr. David Pulling serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Qolsys, Inc. Qolysis is a venture capital startup with approximately 80 employees. Qolsys has a product line that focuses on Home Automation and Security.

Mr. Pulling served as President of NetXen, Inc. Prior to joining NetXen, Inc. he was an Executive Vice President of Server Works where he was responsible for sales and marketing activities. As a founding member of the ServerWorks' team, he grew its server chipset business, with a market share of 90%, and played a key role in the sale of ServerWorks to Broadcom.

Prior to ServerWorks, he held a number of executive management positions at Ross Technology. As Vice President of Strategic Marketing, he was instrumental in taking Ross Technology public in 1995.

He earned his BSEE in 1986 from West Virginia University, and earned an MBA in 1989 from the University of Dallas. He began his career after graduation from WVU at Texas Instruments.

Mr. Pulling has returned a number of times to WVU to meet and speak with students, and Qolsys has supported the WVU Solar Decathlon team in the area of home automation.