Operator, not observer
Two startups founded, one acquired; product and business leadership at Microsoft, Amazon, and Intel. The material comes from engagements, not headlines.
Speaking
Talks that move AI from
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Keynotes, executive briefings, and university lectures on generative AI, startup strategy, and the humans doing the building. 100+ speaking engagements to date.
Current topics
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Closing the AI pilot-to-production gap
Why 70–95% of generative AI pilots never ship, and the methodology — qualification, patterns, quality gates — that reverses the odds. Drawn from hundreds of real engagements across startups and enterprises.
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What frontier startups signal about enterprise AI
Startup architecture choices preview the next 12–24 months of enterprise adoption. Agentic systems, physical AI, inference economics — and how executives should read the signal.
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Agentic AI in the enterprise: from demos to deployed
What it actually takes to move autonomous agents into production inside large organizations — governance, patterns, and the operating model shifts that make agents stick.
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The founder’s inner operating system
From The Inside-Out Entrepreneur: the mental, emotional, and spiritual conditioning that determines whether leaders survive the journey — for founders and executives driving change alike.
Why me, for your room
Both sides of the table
Daily work with frontier AI startups and the enterprises adopting them — the rare vantage point that sees the whole pipeline, prototype to production.
Translator of hard things
A Ph.D. who speaks board-room. Complex AI architecture becomes decisions executives can actually make.
For organizers
Short bio, high-resolution headshot, and book art — ready to download. For introductions, tailored abstracts, or AV requirements, get in touch.
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