Who I work with & how I help
Trustworthy AI starts with institutional judgment.
I advise executives, boards, and institutions in healthcare, education, publishing, and other high-integrity environments. My edge is the ability to move between the boardroom, business model, ontology, and system design without losing the thread.
Strategy & governance
Clarify where AI can create value, what must remain under human control, and how leadership will govern the risk.
Explainable design
Translate institutional expertise into auditable models, reasoning paths, and systems that can show their work.
Adoption & outcomes
Connect architecture to operating decisions so people can use the system, defend it, and measure what changed.
Founder & CEO of Bast AI · Former IBM Distinguished Engineer · Experience spanning healthcare, education, research, and regulated enterprise
How the engagement can grow
Advisory is the front door. When shared priorities emerge, the relationship can deepen into a structured Bast partnership—without forcing every organization into the same shape.
01
Advise
Board, executive, or strategic counsel to identify the right problem and set the boundaries.
02
Shape
A Bast Sponsor Customer partnership turns domain expertise into reusable, explainable models.
03
Deploy
Put Bast into operation—or explore a strategic partnership or investment when the fit is bigger.
Selected outcomes
Lead feature on DVC’s blog
DVC · 7-minute case study
Explainable, offline-ready medical AI—with the full evidence chain intact.
Featured as the lead story on DVC’s main blog: how Bast uses its data registry as the system of record for an unstructured AI pipeline, making every answer traceable through its context, source page, document version, and pipeline outputs.
Full provenance
Reproducible answers
Offline operation
Read the case study on DVC →
$1.2M
saved in the first semester, alongside a 12% reduction in nursing-student attrition
The infrastructure underneath
Founder & CEO
Bast AI
Control infrastructure for AI that has to show its work: source-grounded answers, visible reasoning, provenance, and human control.
Selected perspective
Masters of Scale
Strategy Sessions
A conversation on responsible AI with Reid Hoffman and Rana el Kaliouby.
KMWorld Column
Crossing the AI Chasm
Why AI doesn't cross the chasm the way software did.
Book
AI for the Rest of Us
Nominated #1 book to read by Constellation Research.
I started my career in ruins.
I'm one of those people with an insatiable thirst to understand our shared human history. So I did what everyone told me not to and went to school for what I loved. I became an archaeologist, and digging in the dirt gave me a perspective I've found nowhere else. It's the reason I understand both humans and AI.
Read my essays on Substack →
