Accomplished digital technology corporate executive, entrepreneur, and startup advisor with a doctorate in complex systems (specialized in computer vision, visual cortex and natural language processing), and proven success as a digital transformation business leader:
● Recruited by General Motor’s CDAO (direct report to the CEO of GM, Mary Barra) to drive the digital business to $100M P/L
● Acted as senior partner to evaluate AI/ML tech stacks of early stage startups incubated by 500Startups and ERANYC
● Guided the world’s largest chemicals firm to $50M savings as a EY digital transformation consultant and founded EY’s first computer vision Wavespace valued at 150M (senior technology partner level)
● Applied digital business principles to produce $53M cost reductions at a Fortune 500 financial services company while with Clarity Insights, acquired by Accenture as its AI branch
● As a independent consultant at Verizon, implemented an adaptive practice, human motivated AI solution in set-top box support team, to save a $10M at-risk project and initiated a new line of business acquiring AOL and Yahoo
● At Chapel Hill, UNC, founded a cloud-based AI/ML platform startup to create a community to increase the efficiency and fairness of AI/ML algorithms used in brain imaging studies
● Advised companies as a board member on AI/ML and the use of Data Science to drive growth and success
● Passionate about Diversity and Inclusion in the STEM domain, particularly the Data Sciences
