Digital Dynamics (DDI) is an employee-owned technology company based in Scotts Valley, CA, located nearby Silicon Valley. DDI designs and manufactures best-in-class machine & functional safety I/O control solutions serving mission-critical applications in the world’s demanding industries.

Applying its experienced engineering, high-quality manufacturing, and industry-leading product life cycle support, DDI delivers its core technologies in a feature-rich line of innovative, intelligent controller solutions. DDI’s patented Fusion IO controller platform delivers the highest value in equipment control and performance. SuperIOr’s time-saving modularity & flexibility make DDI the engineer’s choice for high-performance machine and safety-interlock control. To date, the world’s leading OEM’s trust DDI products to control over $40 billion worth of mission-critical equipment in factories running 24/7 around the world.

5 Victor Square
Scotts Valley, CA 95066

Nir Merry joined DDI in January 2021 as President & CEO and was elected to the DDI Board of Directors in March 2021. Nir brings with him over 30 years of leadership experience in the semiconductor equipment and HVAC automation industries.

Prior to joining DDI, Nir held Senior Executive roles at Applied Materials, including VP and Head of Common Solutions Group (CSG) – Applied’s common platform engineering organization and Head of Front-End Products (FEP) Platform Engineering. In addition, Nir served ten years as the head of Applied Engineering Leadership Board (ELB).

Nir holds over 35 patents in the fields of semiconductor equipment, medical devices, and HVAC automation. He earned his MS and BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Tony DiLeonardo joined DDI in 2021 as Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Prior to joining DDI, Tony managed Access Consolidated Technologies, Inc., a technical sales and business development firm located in Silicon Valley. He has served in sales management roles with Danaher Corp, Kollmorgen Corp, and Hercules Aerospace Corp. Tony earned a BSEE from Penn State University.

Jerry Weingord joined DDI in January 2023 as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Operations. Jerry has 30+ years of leading operations teams with a concentrated focus on developing and launching complex products, designing automation and test equipment, establishing manufacturing strategies, enabling Contract Manufacturers for mass production, building out efficient supply chains, and implementing Quality Management Systems internally and at strategic partners.

Prior to joining DDI, Jerry held leadership positions in the Hard Disk Drive, Electric Vehicles, Management Consulting, Stationary battery storage, and Lidar industries.

Jerry holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering and an MS in Management from New York University in New York City.

In addition, Jerry brings with him six US Patents in electro-mechanical motor design for the Hard Disk Drive industry.

Gary is a seasoned product development executive with experience managing hardware, software and program management teams to develop complex products. Gary is experienced in multiple aspects of product development, engineering requirements, engineering design, product testing, program management and manufacturing. He holds a BSEECS and MSCS from University of Santa Clara.

Jessyca joined DDI with 20 plus years of Human Resources Experience largely in the semiconductor industry.  Jessyca has a BA in Pre-law from San Jose State University and a MS in Organizational Development from the University of San Francisco.  Jessyca is a change agent known to transform cultures, lead large change initiatives, create inclusive work environments and coach leaders through growth.

Mike Hutchinson joins Digital Dynamics, Inc. (“DDI”) as Chief Financial Officer with over 25 years of financial leadership experience across multiple industries, including technology, semiconductor, and SaaS. Prior to joining DDI, Michael previously held CFO and other financial leadership roles at companies deploying innovative solutions including Nanosys, Inc., Foghorn Systems, Inc. and Vocera Communications, Inc.  He has helped scale companies from $5M to $100M+ in revenue and managed strategic acquisitions as well as exits. Michael holds an MBA from UCLA and a BS in Business Administration and Accounting from Oregon State University.