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I am a seasoned business and academic leader with extensive experience in strategy consulting, technology, entrepreneurship, product management, and knowledge management. My expertise is focused on guiding business leaders in streamlining complex processes, maximizing enterprise data and knowledge value, and improving the findability of key business and process knowledge.My career journey includes executive roles at premier strategy and management consulting firms such as Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company, Ernst & Young, Capgemini, and Iknow LLC. I excel in building international, multidisciplinary teams and systems, significantly enhancing professional productivity and maximizing returns on technology and process improvement investments.In the information technology sector, I have spearheaded agile software development projects, enterprise search platform configurations, and knowledge management platform implementations. I am adept in designing and delivering advanced business intelligence applications, dashboards, data visualization solutions, and solutions that combine semantic modeling, knowledge graphs, and vector databases to enhance the meaning of the data ingested by large language modes. My notable contributions to knowledge management, innovation, and semantic engineering, have been recognized in leading publications like Harvard Business Review, CIO, Fortune, and Harvard Business School case studies. As a thought leader, I regularly engage in speaking and writing, sharing insights and trends within the industry.At Columbia University's Information and Knowledge Strategy program, I instruct courses in Knowledge Processes, Practices, and Governance; Findability, Semantic Modeling, and Computational Classification; and Digital Product Innovation and Entrepreneurship. My teaching method integrates practical insights from my extensive career with contemporary academic theories, preparing future leaders for the evolving digital and knowledge-driven business world.A significant aspect of my recent work includes developing Large Language Model (LLM) solutions. These AI-driven solutions play a vital role in revolutionizing operations and decision-making in professional service firms, law firms, global pharmaceutical companies, and the Department of Defense. My focus on logic-based knowledge representation and reasoning, along with my interest in semantic technologies and ontology, demonstrates my commitment to forefront innovation in knowledge management, language modeling, and digital transformation.

Listed skills include Knowledge Management, Management Consulting, Strategy, Business Intelligence, and 38 others.