BrandGuard is the world's #1 AI-powered brand governance platform. Our AI models ensure brand consistency in all customer-facing assets generated by humans and machines. Your brand is valuable. BrandGuard makes sure it stays that way.

Role: VP Partnerships & Client Success

Timeline: Jan 2023 onwards

Website: https://www.brandguard.ai/

Blog: https://www.brandguard.ai/blog

Twitter: @brandguard_ai

Press:

https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/03/nova-is-building-guardrails-for-generative-ai-content-to-protect-brand-integrity/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-fuels-new-brand-safety-worries-and-would-be-solutions-for-marketers-50342971

https://www.marketingprofs.com/articles/2023/50100/brand-consistency-guide-in-the-ai-age

Dianthus is an AI-first e-commerce company that acquires brands with serious growth potential. The company provides founders with a lucrative exit strategy while giving them the technology, marketing, and product development resources needed to effectively scale their businesses. Following the acquisition, Dianthus leverages first-party data within its proprietary AI engine to drive consumer engagement and brand impact.

Role: VP of Technology

Timeline: Jun 2021 - Dec 2022

Website: http://dianthuscommerce.com

Blog: https://www.dianthuscommerce.com/vector-blog

Twitter: @dianthus_ai

Press: https://underscore.vc/blog/why-we-invested-dianthus/

https://www.builtinboston.com/articles/dianthus-raises-11m-seed-round-acquires-brands-ai

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220308005539/en/Dianthus-Secures-11.5M-in-Seed-Funding-from-PJC-and-Underscore-VC

https://www.axios.com/pro/retail-deals/2022/07/18/dianthus-eyes-buys-as-it-raises-series-a

A platform for building Transparent, Trustworthy AI solutions.

Problem: Current AI systems are opaque, non-intuitive and difficult to understand. As a user/developer/business owner it’s hard to answer even simple questions such as; Why did you do that? When do you succeed or fail? When do I trust you?

Solution: Superintelligent empowers organizations to build AI that is fair, interpretable, auditable, and understandable. Superintelligent works across stakeholders and systems throughout the AI development lifecycle by providing a platform to define, audit, and monitor AI solutions at scale, continuously.

Role: CoFounder

Timeline: Jan 2020 - May 2021

Website: http://superintelligent.io

Blog: http://superintelligent.substack.com

Twitter: @supintelligent

Data Analytics and Insights for Web 3.0

Problem:

Lack of in-depth analytic tools that can help understand how, why, and when decentralized protocols & apps get used

Hard & time consuming to get insights directly from the blockchain

Every blockchain is its own ecosystem. no cross-blockchain tools available.

Solution:

Chainbeat empowers everyone with actionable, functional data

Chainbeat provides real-time data insights for fast decision making that helps grow the business

Chainbeat is the first cross-blockchain analytics platform

Role: CoFounder

Timelines: Sep 2019 - Dec 2023

Website: http://chainbeat.io

Blog: http://medium.com/chainbeat

Newsletter: http://chainbeat.substack.com

Twitter: http://twitter.com/chainbeatinc

Press:

https://defiprime.com/chainbeat

A decentralized peer to peer marketplace for datasets

Problem:

• Access to quality data is the #1 roadblock to success for AI initiatives

• The world’s data is growing exponentially but its massively underutilized

• Enterprises and corporations have access to high-quality data but have no means or incentives to share, creating data silos

Solution:

• A decentralized approach enables trust and empowers users to decide how their data gets shared, priced and distributed

• A secure framework to free data stuck in silos and empower algorithms to reach their full potential

• It provides the option to unlock the potential of your data to scale AI development and get rewarded for doing so.

Role: CoFounder

Timeline: Nov 2017 - May 2019

Website: http://rocket.exchange/

Blog: https://blog.rocket.exchange/

The secure identity system for the Internet of Intelligence.

Problem:

• Currently, no system exists to map an auditable, decentralized trail that reflects the autonomous decisions made by bots

• There is a need for standard protocols for autonomous systems that allow bots to communicate and, therefore, synchronize work across the network

• The AI market remains fragmented. Developers, software companies, and enterprise consumers struggle to leverage advancements and capitalize on innovations from others

Solution:

• BotChain allows broad adoption of AI technology in a safe and secure way

• BotChain will establish the commercial environment for third parties to develop and acquire skill and knowledge modules to upgrade bot performance

• The solution provides easy means to understand and improve bot responses and choices while creating a vibrant ecosystem where bot software and service innovations are shared. This improves the quality and availability of autonomous agent technologies worldwide.

Role: Early Founding Team

Timelines: Nov 2017 - Jan 2019

Website: http://botchain.network

Blog: http://medium.com/botchain

AI-Powered Automation for Service and Support Teams.

• Talla uses AI and machine learning to provide the most accurate information to users. No more scanning through pages of results. Get the right answer the first time.

• A System that Learns Continuously to provide Better information, faster resolutions, happier customers, and an overall more efficient support process

• The Power of AI, Everywhere You Work - web, chat, and Talla’s Chrome plugin.

• Automation to Make Support Run Smoothly

Role: Product Dev - Integrations JIRA, Zendesk

Timeline: 2016-2018

Website: http://talla.com

Migrator for Google Apps securely and automatically transfers Gmail, Calendar, Docs, and Contacts from one Google Apps domain to another.

• Migrator saves time, money and a lot of headaches by providing a simple 3-step automated process instead of the manual alternative

• For Google Apps admins, Migrator provides a bulk migrations option to manage multiple migrations at the same time

• Migrator generated over 500 leads a month and was used by over 50,000 unique clients a year. At the time, Migrator was a top-10 ranked application in the Google Apps marketplace.

Role: Idea & Execution

Timeline: 2013

Links: https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2410323,00.asp

FreeSpace is a free tool for Google Apps admins and users. FreeSpace is designed to take the pain out of managing attachments and keeping your mailbox slim. Here’s what FreeSpace does:

• Proactively monitors Gmail accounts, so you can alert their owners to take action

• Identifies large attachments; you pick what to delete or securely offload, and we do the rest

• Leaves conversations intact, no matter whether you delete, download or ignore the attachment

Role: Idea & Execution

Timeline: 2014

Links: https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/google-in-the-enterprise/manage-gmail-inbox-space-with-backupify-freespace/

Snapshot is an essential tool for managing an employee’s data when they leave while also freeing organizations from the cost of maintaining those Google Apps accounts.

Snapshot extracts all the Gmail, Google Docs, Calendar, Contacts and Google Site content from a single Google Apps account and compresses it into an easy-to-extract ZIP file, that a company can download to their local machine. With an archive of this data, an IT admin can safely delete or re-assign the Google Apps user account without losing a thing.

Snapshot for Salesforce was developed to achieve similar functionality as its Google Apps cousin.

Role: Idea & Execution

Timeline: 2011 - 12

Links:

https://techcrunch.com/2011/10/19/backupify-snapshot-exits-beta-adds-more-features-for-exporting-google-apps-accounts/

Backupify protects your cloud data and keeps it safe from malicious actions, hackers and user errors.

• Google Apps, Office 365, Salesforce Backupis

• Robust, Automated Backup

• Easy Recovery of lost data

Role: Early Founding team (employee #5)

Timeline: 2010-14

Genscape provides energy market data and intelligence across the oil, power, natural gas and LNG, agriculture, petrochemical and NGLs, maritime, and renewables markets

Gencape delivers real-time and historical data, forecasts, analytical insight, tools, and software solutions leveraging a combination of unique data collection techniques and data science.

Role: Sr Developer

Timeline: 2007-2010

SHPS, Inc., headquartered in Louisville, KY, is a total benefits outsourcing provider, offering Strategic Consulting, HR and Benefits Outsourcing, and Health Management services to employers, health plans, and government agencies who are seeking to improve their performance and lower the cost of administrative services

Designed and developed the first SHPS Spending Account Portal used to access participant account information from multiple systems and display the information in a single, unified and customizable portal.

Accomplishments:

• Coordinated and managed the EZ Exit project to eliminate legacy purchasing tools driving a $100M yearly reduction in CRU/DASD charges.

• Designed and managed resources to develop a Java-based online query tool to replace old MVS transactions.

• Designed and coordinated the development of the GEA OP/Minerva interface to feed purchase order information into an operational data store.

• Played a crucial role in organizing, recruiting and leading the offshore team based in India

• Six Sigma Green Belt certification