President & CEO
David J Gilligan is the founder, President and CEO of Blue Note Logic Inc. Based in Kongsberg, Norway — a town with a long lineage in defence technology and precision engineering — David brings a rare combination of systems engineering discipline and entrepreneurial instinct to the AI infrastructure space.
David studied at the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN) in Kongsberg, earning his MBA alongside a grounding in systems engineering. USN sits at the heart of Norway's technology corridor — the same ecosystem that produced Kongsberg Gruppen, Kongsberg Digital, and the NorwAI research centre at NTNU. That environment shaped David's approach to technology: engineer it properly, own the infrastructure, and never outsource the parts that matter.
Before founding Blue Note Logic, David built a career across telecommunications, IT consulting, and systems architecture. His background spans BSS/OSS platform delivery, enterprise systems integration, and the kind of large-scale programme work where a missed dependency costs months, not hours. That experience — understanding how complex systems actually fail in production — is what informs the way Blue Note Logic builds today.
He also founded Gilligan Tech, an AI and IT consulting practice focused on real operations rather than proofs of concept. The motto — "AI and IT for real operations" — became the DNA of everything Blue Note Logic would later ship.
David is the sole architect and primary engineer behind the entire Blue Note Logic product ecosystem:
The systems engineering background means David thinks in dependencies, failure modes, and integration points — not features and roadmaps. The MBA means he understands unit economics, go-to-market timing, and the commercial discipline needed to turn infrastructure investment into recurring revenue. And the fact that he still writes code daily means the distance between strategic decision and production deployment is exactly one person.
