Joseph Hackman
Founder / CEO
With over a decade of industry language model experience, Joseph has led AI
teams at
Intel,
Attentive, and ASAPP. Joseph is an inventor on a dozen granted AI patents, contributed to the IEEE
7010 AI
Ethics
standard, and is on the faculty of Columbia University.
Bobbi Barry
Founding Product Officer
Over a 3 decade career, Bobbi has been a Software Engineer, Engineering Manager,
Project
Manager,
Product Manager, and Executive. She has overseen programs across data, security, and artificial
intelligence domains at Intel, ASAPP, and Square.
Fritz Heckel, PhD
Founding Engineer
With a doctoral degree in AI and over a dozen years in industry, Fritz is an
expert in
search and machine learning architecture. He's built search systems at Nokia and
Bloomberg, and architected training and evaluation systems for ASAPP's language models.
Jonathan Weese
Founding Engineer
Jonny started his work on
language modeling as a doctoral student at Johns Hopkins. He then joined Google, before leaving his
PhD for
Facebook
as a
research scientist. At ASAPP he developed systems for speech transcription and language modeling.
Ethan Elenberg, PhD
Founding Scientist
After his doctoral studies and spending time at Apple and Twitter, Ethan led a
research group
at ASAPP
that improved language model training, fine-tuning, summarization, and text classification. His
current research
focus is
in-context learning.
Tyler Holloway
AI Scientist
Tyler is a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard. Her research transforms the way
computer programs are developed by generating code from requirements. At Yale
she was an intern at Meta and Google. She has also worked at VC firms General Catalyst
and E14.
Bill Saylor
Vice President of Product
Bill is a distinguished product executive with over 20 years of experience in technology. He has
led strategic product management and go-to-market initiatives at Oracle, AOL, and Comcast driving
growth and innovation across AI, data, and cloud technologies.
Andrew Unger
Founding Advisor
Andrew is an Investor at Conversion Capital and built companies
for two decades. He Co-Founded Better Mortgage and led people and talent at Redesign Health. Investments include
Ramp, Gecko Robotics, Modal, Numeric, Rox, and Cognition.
Jonathan Frankle, PhD
Science Advisor
Jonathan is the Chief AI Scientist at Databricks, which acquired his
previous startup MosaicML. He completed his PhD at MIT and earned his
BSE and MSE at Princeton. At the OECD he works to implement the AI Principles that he helped develop.
Susan Hunt
Growth Advisor
Susan has over two decades of experience helping the world's largest firms implement AI-powered
solutions as a senior executive at Nuance, Salesforce, ASAPP, LivePerson, and Orbital. She is now the founder and
CEO of
Surge
Growth.