Campagna Academy | Changing Young Lives, Daily | Elena Dwyre
Elena Dwyre
CEO
Society calls them “at-risk,” “delinquent,” or “troubled.” At Campagna Academy, they have always been called by name. Founded over 70 years ago as Hoosier Boys’ Town, Campagna Academy today restores the hopes and dreams of over 500 youths and families per year. Campagna is a 501c3, non-profit, social services agency licensed by the Indiana Department of Child Services and accredited by the Council on Accreditation of Services for Families and Children, Inc (COA) and CARF International accredits their residential programs. Campagna Academy’s life-changing programs strengthen and reunite families, allowing young men and women to make positive life changes that lead to social responsibility and personal success.
Campagna Academy is a mission-centered, vision-inspired, “for-impact” organization that works to change the world one youth at a time. Their full continuum of care is designed to meet the individual’s needs, providing educational, therapeutic, psycho-educational, vocational, and independent living programs.
Campagna was awarded the Great Lake Award for best non-profit management because their standard programs include: Masters level clinicians, step-down residential living, outcome-based “level system” treatment model, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).
Innovative with a strong vision to continue to further their mission, Campagna Academy is constantly looking at gaps in services and trends, and best practices to treat children and youth with emotional, behavioral, and mental health issues.
Elena Dwyre, CEO of Campagna Academy, is an example of a truly transformational leader taking Campagna to new heights. She is the kind of leader that others want to follow, and she inspires others to take on any challenge and brings everybody together collectively to make a difference. She has the business and clinical background to lead the organization in all ways necessary to move the organization forward and is always mission-driven and focused on improving the lives of at-risk youth. Like all great leaders, Elena empowers her staff and encourages them to grow by presenting them with the opportunities that will challenge them, and she will guide them along the way. New programs are always strategic and relevant to bring needed services to the community and to be able to meet the ever-changing needs of children and families.
“To inspire employees, leadership style needs to be flexible, and must adapt to meet the specific needs of the staff and organization at that given time. A true inspirational leader believes in empowering others to do their best and gives staff opportunities for them to lead, to believe in themselves and take on new challenges,” says Elena. Campagna’s leadership and staff embrace change and know to expect change under Elena’s leadership. Elena believes that the staff appreciates being given challenges, to be trusted with their abilities to lead, and the satisfaction of overcoming those challenges.
“Our purpose is to make a difference in the lives of the children we serve. Restoring hope and building dreams is our mission. At Campagna Academy, our mission drives what we do and gives everyone the focus needed to continue to be the support to all children entrusted in our care,” adds Elena. “A positive difference is when we see children return home to their families, they are able to learn the skills necessary to deal with their trauma and learn of ways to manage their mental health needs in a way that it is empowering to them. Children in foster care return home, and others find their forever homes through adoption. There are many ways that staff at Campagna impact the lives of our children on a daily basis.”
Elena wants to highlight one recent client success story. We had a client that came to us that was a victim of sex trafficking since the early age of 12. “She came to our care with little hope and severe trauma that she needed to be able to learn how to manage. After being in our care and receiving treatment for her trauma, she soon volunteered to join various support groups on campus, and started working in our campus cafeteria.” After working on campus, she was able to secure a job in the community. Before discharging from Campagna, she was accepted to a community college to study restaurant and hotel management. She is currently living in an adoptive home attending community college and planning to graduate this coming May 2021,” explains Elena.
The biggest achievement of Campagna Academy is its staff. The dedication to the mission and passion for working with at-risk children is seen daily with everything that Campagna’s staff does for children in their care. Furthermore, Campagna’s leadership commitment to continue to adapt its services and programs to meet children and families’ needs shows a strong, clear vision for the organization’s future. For the days to come, Campagna plans to include new programs that will add to the existing continuum of care. “This is a very needed and a strategic move for us to be in a position to offer children and families the right services at the right time,” says Elena. “Residential treatment is designed to be intensive and short-term. After completing treatment, the child and family need ongoing treatment options and supports that are tailored to meet their individual needs until their final goals are met.”
The Unique Solutions
The company offers powerful Systems on Chips (SoCs) and a software suite for creating customized solutions. And the current flagship is HyperX Midnight, a radiation-hardened supercomputer class SoC designed for use in LEO, MEO, and GEO (low-, middle-, and geosynchronous earth orbit) satellites.
HyperX Midnight, soon after its release, became the most advanced space processor available, with roughly four times the computing throughput at half the power demand of competitive chips.
“This is a significant step, as performance and power consumption control the magnitude of a satellite. We put enormous performance in a small package with low power obligations, so our customers can use much smaller satellite busses (chassis) which conserves millions in launch budgets,” says Walt. Another key feature of Coherent’s HyperX multi-chip modules compared to its competitors is that its chips are C-programmable and use familiar tools and debugging processes. “The solutions can be built on our chip in about 6 months whereas competitive FPGA offerings usually require 24 months of development time using complex hardware development languages and a very difficult process called timing closure,” he adds.
Coherent Logix’s SoCs are also completely reprogrammable, even in space, and can modify tasks in less than 50ns (nanoseconds). These two elements combine to create a huge advantage. Coherent Logix can make four products in the time our competitors take to build just one, and we can continuously enhance those products even if they are in orbit around the Earth.
These attributes herald back to Coherent Logix’s patented invention: the HyperX fabric. And this fabric is common to all Coherent Logix’ chips – both Space-qualified and terrestrial – so these advantages are available whether users are building a satellite, 5G cellular, secure networks, AI platforms, or 8K video encoders. Coherent Logix has served the Space 2.0 and Defense markets for 15 years. High-performance computing (HPC) with low power draw, on-orbit programmability, and ease of modular multimodal MCM design are the keys to success in these markets according to Walt.
The Leader who Makes the Difference
Walt Gall, Ph.D. serves as CEO on Coherent Logix’s executive management team. He is a business leader who builds world-class AI teams, products, and strategic partnerships for top-tier start-ups (Saffron, Intel acquisition) and large corporations (Amazon Devices, Meta (formerly FB).
As CEO of Coherent Logix, the leader in low-power, high-performance C- programmable processors for the embedded systems market, he recently helped guide the company through a funding initiative that raised $85 million.
Under Walt’s leadership, in early 2023 Coherent Logix launched HyperX Midnight, the world’s most advanced space processor, with roughly four times the computing throughput at half the power demand of competitive chips. Coherent Logix is currently in its fourth generation of HyperX processors for Space 2.0 and Defense, Connected Devices, and Media & Communications industries. The company has been granted more than 375 patents and 125 patents are pending.
Over the past decade, Walt has held various leadership roles on executive teams, including Amazon Alexa AI, Meta’s AR/VR and AI divisions, and Intel AI, with responsibilities for annual operational planning, developing a 3-year strategy, and managing more than $500M R&D and production budgets. He led product launches on conversational AI voice assistants on industry-leading consumer and social media devices with cloud-to-edge embedded applications and the development of several enterprise decision-support AI/IOT solutions in wellness, health, hi-tech, and insurance sectors.
Walt’s leadership style is centered on the customer and making data-informed, timely decisions. This customer-centric team approach is critical as the company scales its products and continues to expand its channel partnerships. “I’m referring to our direct customers and strategic partners, our leadership team and employees, and our Board of Directors,” he adds. “We have a collective interest in growing revenue and partnering on developing and commercializing products that have a meaningful impact on society.”
Armed with this mindset, Walt and the rest of the leadership team have skillfully guided Coherent Logix into hypergrowth markets: Space 2.0, cybersecurity, connected devices, media and communications.
Towards the Future
Coherent Logix is adding a cloud-based capability for new customers, universities, and the Maker/open-source community to work with their development tools and hardware. With older von Neumann microprocessor architecture designs and today’s programmable hardware, the software development process is so tedious that it can take 24-36 months for a customer to develop a solution e.g., a WiFi router. Coherent Logix microprocessors, however, have C-programmability and use standard software development processes. They also offer a cycle-accurate simulation platform. These advantages enable Coherent Logix to build solutions in just six months and continue to reprogram or reconfigure as needed to support their product and customer roadmaps with new software-defined functions or as standards evolve. This, combined with the hardware/software co-design process the company uses to build their System on Chips (SoCs), brings the power of digital transformation to the design and use of digital processors – amplifying both the pace of innovation and the competitive advantages of Coherent Logix.
For the near future, Walt is striving towards building highly functioning, distributed teams to bring the most disruptive products to market he has worked on, i.e., a new class of low-power, reprogrammable, high-performance computing devices. Coherent Logix is enabling customers to “redefine hardware as software” (which is also the company’s tagline) to meet the market demand for the flexibility, extensibility, and scalability of software-defined hardware systems and their small SWaP requirements, ranging from space satellites to consumer devices. Coherent Logix’s HyperX architecture provides a paradigm shift in hardware-software co-design from embedded systems to the cloud and delivers a more cost-effective and scalable software-defined device strategy. With its compute and memory co-localized, an event-oriented, parallel processing fabric, low power profile, and C-programmability, this has a 2-4x improvement in the time it takes to develop and launch products. This multi-faceted value proposition extends product customer lifetime value economic models, increasing the ROI for its ODM and OEM partners and customers. Accomplishing these product revenue growths and customer-centric goals will lead naturally to the longer-term goal of positioning Coherent Logix for a successful market exit for its shareholders.
“The future requires low-power, high performance computing for next generation connected devices – it will be everywhere we find a sensor, a camera, a robot, or smart device. As large as the Space 2.0 revolution is, the terrestrial edge and embedded devices will eclipse it by orders of magnitude,” concludes Walt. “We must be as efficient with power as possible. It has a cost to our planet to produce, and it turns into heat when you use it. If we want to preserve our planet, smart everything must become smart, efficient everything.”
" A true inspirational leader believes in empowering others to do their best and gives staff opportunities for them to lead, to believe in themselves and take on new challenges. "
Elena Dwyre
CEO
