Director, Global Ai Business
Current- Fortune 200 head of AI leading strategy, business development, alliances and all GTM activity.- Manage global AI business responsible for $2B+ in revenue - Established first global Center of Excellence to support customer projects and POCs. - Instrumental in driving AI-first product requirements for 80+ AI-ready platforms.- Launched Lenovo AI Innovators program with 45+ partners and 150+ solutions.- Oversee all marketing activity for Lenovo AI including thought leadership, brand, campaigns and sales training. - Guided the team to establish first AI services offerings. - Oversee solution architect team for Reference Designs and customer deployments.- Guide GPU & Accelerator portfolio roadmap and advise customers on accelerator selections.- Oversee performance benchmarking including MLPerf and other AI related benchmarks. - Advise and support key Lenovo committees including Responsible AI, Accelerator Steerco, AI Strategy Steerco as well as external committees including LPRC AI Solve. - Manage key relationships with strategic partners related to AI, including NVIDIA, IBM, Intel, VMWare, RedHat, Vast, Weka, NetApp and more.- Oversee Data Science team supporting customer deployments.- Project oversight for Generative AI, LLM, SLM, Vision and Voice based AI deployments. - Guide M&A / inorganic growth strategy as well as product and solution roadmaps for all AI offerings.- Founding member of Lenovo AI, launched in 2017.