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10 AI executives

These ten AI executives hold chief executive, chief financial or chief technology roles at organizations working in artificial intelligence. Readers can learn how leaders of AI companies set strategy, finance growth, and turn AI research and products into businesses that customers pay for.

10 professionals10 companiesData retrieved September 29, 2026

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  1. David Pinn

    LinkedIn

    Experience: Chief Executive Officer · Brain Corp

    Chief Executive Officer at Brain Corp since 2022, and Chief Financial Officer there since 2021. Former Brain Corp roles include Chief Strategy Officer (2020–2021), SVP of Strategy (2019–2020) and VP of Strategy (2017–2019). His profile describes Brain Corp's business as AI-powered autonomous robotics software (SaaS) and its headline cites scaling AI and robotics SaaS platforms.

  2. Debanjan Saha

    LinkedIn

    Experience: Chief Executive Officer · DataRobot

    Chief Executive Officer at DataRobot since 2022. Former roles include VP GM, Data Analytics at Google (2019–2022) and VP GM, Databases at Amazon Web Services (AWS) (2014–2019). His profile argues that enterprises face an AI deployment problem rather than a model problem, and points to the infrastructure needed to orchestrate agents, govern decisions, manage memory and connect AI systems to data.

  3. Mitesh Agrawal

    LinkedIn

    Experience: Chief Executive Officer · Positron AI

    Chief Executive Officer at Positron AI since 2025, and former Chief Operating Officer at Lambda (2017–2025). His profile describes Positron as a company that provides purpose-built hardware for transformer model inference and offers a range of generative AI systems. Other former roles include Senior Fellow at Pasteur Labs & ISI (2022–2023) and Senior Financial Analyst at Cornerstone Research (2015–2017).

  4. Nikhil Krishnan

    LinkedIn

    Experience: Chief AI Officer and CTO · C3 AI

    Chief AI Officer and CTO at C3 AI since 2026, and former SVP & Chief Technology Officer, Data Science (2022–2026) and Group Vice President, Products (2013–2022) at C3 AI. His profile says that at C3 he is responsible for product management across applications, platform, ML experience and developer experience, as well as ML/AI science and product marketing. He was also Associate Principal at McKinsey & Company (2006–2013).

  5. Oren Etzioni

    LinkedIn

    Experience: Chief Executive Officer · Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence

    Chief Executive Officer at Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence since 2014. His profile describes him as Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of Washington and founding CEO of AI2, and says he co-founded Vercept, an AI startup acquired by Anthropic in February 2026. Other roles include Founder of TrueMedia.org (2024–2025), Co-Founder and CTO at Decide (2010–2013) and Founder of Farecast (2003–2008).

  6. Sam Liang

    LinkedIn

    Experience: CEO, Founder · Otter.ai

    CEO, Founder at Otter.ai since 2016, and former CEO, Founder at Alohar Mobile Inc. (Acquired by Alibaba) (2010–2016). His profile says Otter.ai created the AI Meeting Assistant product category and scaled it to more than 30 million users and over $100 million in ARR, with automatic meeting notes and AI-generated summaries. He was also EIR at DFJ (2010–2011).

  7. Sarah Friar

    LinkedIn

    Experience: Chief Financial Officer · OpenAI

    Chief Financial Officer at OpenAI since 2024. Her profile also says she was chief executive officer of Nextdoor, the neighborhood network, and helped take that company public in 2021. Other current roles include Member Board Of Directors at Walmart since 2018 and at Consensys since 2022, and Member Board of Trustees at Stanford University since 2026.

  8. Stefan Ortmanns

    LinkedIn

    Experience: Chief Executive Officer · Cerence AI

    Chief Executive Officer at Cerence AI since 2021, and former Executive Vice President & General Manager at Cerence AI (2019–2021) and at Nuance Communications (2018–2019). His profile describes Cerence's business as AI mobility solutions and says that before his promotion he led Cerence's Core Products business as executive vice president and general manager after the company's separation from Nuance Communications.

  9. Tareq Amin

    LinkedIn

    Experience: Chief Executive Officer · HUMAIN

    Chief Executive Officer at HUMAIN since 2024, which his profile describes as a full-stack AI company owned by the Public Investment Fund (PIF). Former roles include Chief Executive Officer at aramco digital (2023–2024), and Chief Executive Officer (2022–2023) and Chief Technology Officer (2018–2022) at Rakuten Mobile, Inc. His profile places his work in digital transformation and artificial intelligence.

  10. Umesh Sachdev

    LinkedIn

    Experience: Co-Founder and CEO · Uniphore

    Co-Founder and CEO at Uniphore since 2008. His profile describes Uniphore as an open, end-to-end Business AI and Data platform company serving thousands of companies, and says its Business AI Cloud launched in 2025. Other current roles include Chair, USISPF Startup Connect at US-India Strategic Partnership Forum since 2020 and Board Member at RTBI (IITM's Rural Technology and Business Incubator) since 2018.

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Questions to take into the conversation

  1. 01How do you decide which AI capabilities to build in-house and which to buy or partner for?
  2. 02What changes in pricing and go-to-market when the product is built on fast-moving AI models?
  3. 03How should an AI company balance research spending against near-term revenue?

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