Why I joined AI Squared
Darren Kimura discusses why he joined AI Squared as the President and COO.
The potential of AI to impact our future is immense and important, which is why I’m thrilled to announce that I am joining AI Squared as President and Chief Operating Officer! In this role, I join a leading AI technology company to help guide our strategies and lead our growth. I decided to join this incredible company for several reasons:
First, on the technology. AI Squared has been building award-winning, world-class AI technology with a focus on:
· User-centric AI solutions. This means our platform and tools are powerful and intuitive, with the goal of being accessible to all users. Our focus on usability allows organizations to integrate AI into their workflows without requiring extensive technical expertise, ensuring that AI is usable by a broader range of industries and individuals.
· Responsible and Ethical AI: AI Squared is strongly committed to building ethical AI systems. This means focusing on transparency, minimizing bias, and ensuring data privacy, aligning with industry best practices to make AI more trustworthy and fair.
· A focus on Real-World Impact: The company’s mission goes beyond developing technology for its own sake; it seeks to create AI that addresses critical, real-world challenges, from healthcare to fintech to national security and environmental sustainability, making AI a force for positive change.
Next, the opportunity to work with world-class, industry leading expertise in the field of AI:
· A scientific approach: On our team, we have 5 PhDs who have deep expertise on AI/ML, cryptography, IT, statistics and a supermajority of our team have advanced degrees and affiliations in similar fields from globally leading educational institutions including MIT, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and the Indian School of Business to name a few.
· Real world experience: Our team members are battle tested with real-life experiences from organizations including JP Morgan Chase, Booz Allen Hamilton, Microsoft, Facebook, Databricks, IBM and the Department of Energy. We collectively have achieved over 20 patents, with numerous in the works.
Also our founder, Dr. Benjamin Harvey, spent over 10 years at the National Security Agency, where he served as the Chief of Operations Data Science. In this role, Dr. Harvey and his team focused on developing, deploying, and optimizing machine learning and data-driven solutions to interpret and leverage vast amounts of intelligence data for purposes such as intelligence gathering, cybersecurity, and risk assessment for national security operations.
· Global diversity: We believe that diversity brings depth. Our team members span the globe, including North America, India, Asia, Africa, and across the company, in total we hail from 10 different countries, and we speak over 30 languages.
Finally, AI Squared is riding on a ton of momentum, and we're just getting started:
· AI Squared was recently awarded a $1.5M Phase III Small Business Innovative Research Contract With the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command. With our deep history from the US DOD, this is just the beginning of numerous, similar engagements.
· Earlier in 2024, AI Squared acquired the most popular open-source reverse ETL provider Multiwoven to help simplify moving data into LLMs and to make it easier to connect AI driven insights into applications. ETL and rETL technologies help move data to and from data warehouses or data stores into the AI Squared AI Platform making it much easier for our customers to activate their data with AI. This helps increase adoption and mean time to value.
· Also, in 2024, AI Squared raised it’s Series A financing to invest in technology expansion and enhanced go-to-market efforts. The round was highly oversubscribed and included participation by NEA and Ansa Capital. Also, Roger W. Ferguson Jr., the former Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve, former CEO/President of TIAA and current board director of Alphabet, has joined our Board of Directors.
Together, we will work on building responsible, accessible AI innovations. This opportunity perfectly aligns with my passion for technological advancement and driving meaningful change. I am excited by the challenge and look forward to working with the team and building the future together.
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