Meet the Dream Team of AGD
We have assembled unique talent with pioneers in AGI, world-renowned scientists and thought leaders, and business and tech professionals that give us an edge in our pursuit of dominating AGD.
Dany Kitishian
Chairman & Co-founder,
Chief Executive Officer
Serial startup entrepreneur, and founder of Plug N Play San Diego. Consultant for founders with $347B+ startups. NASA, NSA, DARPA work.
Oshin Aivazian
Co-founder,
Chief Marketing Officer
Over 15 years of marketing experience consulting and guiding digital paid media strategy and execution for organizations like Stanford Health, The Walt Disney Company, OMG, and HP.
Anand Rao
Co-founder,
Chief Technology Officer
Former Global Head of AI at PwC and former Chief Research Scientist at the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute, with a career. Received the Most Influential Paper Award for the Decade in 2007 from AAMAS.
Eugene Kolker
Co-founder,
Chief Data & Analytics Officer
Renowned data, AI, and analytics innovator and business leader, recognized as an ILO Fellow and top IT Innovator by HIMSS. Listed among LinkedIn’s top 25 CDAOs and Corinium Global’s top 50 Data & Analytics Professionals.
Chris Williams
Co-founder,
Chief Optimization Officer
Renowned data & AI architect and former Chief Cloud Architect for IBM with expertise and extensive experience in network development. Leading groups on Sky Computing for the past year and a half.
Remi Raphael
Co-founder,
Chief Operating Officer
Former acting CIO and Vice President of Transformation at EDF (the world’s largest energy company). Led transformation at Duke Energy. Post-doc researcher at the UC San Diego Super Computer Center in data & machine learning.
M. Yusuf Mohamed
Co-founder,
Chief Legal Counsel
Former Deputy General Counsel at Tesla, and former trial attorney, with significant experience managing the legal needs of a growing tech company.
Michael Barbero
Co-founder,
Chief Negotiations Officer
Retired United States Army Lieutenant General and Commander of the NATO Training Mission – Iraq, with extensive leadership and consulting experience.
Ben Goertzel
Co-founding Member*,
Senior Advisor
World-renowned cognitive scientist and pioneer in AGI. SingularityNET founder and Chief Scientist at Hanson Robotics (Sophia the Robot). Popularized “AGI”.
Derek Lomas
Co-founder,
Chief Experience Officer
Assistant professor of “Positive AI” at Delft University of Technology. NeuroUX co-founder. Protege “godfather of UX” Don Norman. Carnegie Melon PhD. Yale CogSci.
Yu-kai Chou
Senior Advisor,
Experience
World’s number one gamification expert and consultant to Google, Microsoft, and Airbnb, reaching over 1.5 billion users worldwide.
Steve Lesnard
Chief Brand Officer
Former chief brand officer at Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessey/Sephora, former VP of Marketing at Nike, and former CMO of The North Face.
Richard Cassell
Chief Revenue Officer
Over 30 years of experience in sales, business development, and leading high-performance teams in many industries, exceeding revenue and sales targets.
Dimitris Bountolos
Co-founding Member*,
Senior Advisor
Former Chief Digital Officer of LATAM and VP of Customer Experience for Iberia. Sr. Advisor at McKinsey. Sr. Advisor to Chief Innovation Officer NASA. Current EU Commission for AI policy & CIIO at Ferrovial.
David Utzke
Vice President, Emerging
Technology Integration
With 35+ years of expertise, Dr. David Utzke excels in distributed ledger technologies, acclaimed by DOJ, IRS, SEC, and others. Specializing in DLT, Game Theory, AML, and compliance, his skills are utilized by private ventures and federal contracts for cryptographic key security.
Chris Chisholm
Vice President,
Architecture
Over 35 years of experience as an IT expert and Chief Architect specializing in infrastructure and cloud networks and working with NGIA, DoD, NORAD, NASA, and JP Morgan.
Elijah Kim
Co-founding Member*,
Senior Advisor
Serial entrepreneur and first Entrepreneur in Residence of BCG Digital Ventures (Boston Consulting Group’s corporate venture arm). 13xCEO of BCG spinouts.
Anwar El-Homsi
Co-founder &
VP of R&D
Entrepreneur and professor in Artificial Intelligence, and recognized as an expert in problem solving. Significant product development and consulting experience, spanning over 20 years, with Verizon, Cisco, and Bombardier.
Charles Brooks
VP of Cybersecurity
Leading global cybersecurity expert and “Top 5 Tech Person to Follow” by LinkedIn, with over three decades experience that includes advising two U.S. Presidents; executive leadership roles in General Dynamics, Xerox, and Rapiscan Systems; and serving on two National Academy of Science Advisory groups. Regular contributor to Forbes, The Washington Post, Federal Times, and other notable publications.
Myron Karasik
VP of Engineering
CPA & CMC expert with a strong background in software QA (IEEE/ANSI standards) and AI projects (speech recognition, econometric modeling). Former CIO/CTO at Kirkland & Ellis; CIO/CTO at Plymouth Rock; CTO at Seko and Sumitomo/USA; and CTO/COO at Sutter Ortho Rehab. Developed ABM techniques, FNN models, and won two IEEE software engineering best paper awards.
*Co-founding member = a co-founding member of the advisory board.