Finance professionals in Artificial intelligence
CFO or Head of Finance is the current title for seven of these artificial intelligence finance leaders, at Mistral, Cohere, AI21 Labs, Runway, Anyscale, Midjourney and Cognition; the other three cover controlling, accounting and AI business planning at Stability AI, Scale AI and Microsoft. They suit AI companies budgeting compute against revenue, preparing a fundraise or putting financial controls in place as they grow.
Professionals to explore
Andrew Karpos
LinkedInExperience: Head of Finance · Cognition
Scale AI, Replicate, Cloudflare and Cognition all appear in Andrew Karpos's finance path: Head of Finance at Cognition since 2026, after Director of Finance at Cloudflare (2025–2026), Head of Finance & Operations at Replicate (2024–2025) and Head of Corporate Finance and Strategy at Scale AI (2020–2024). Andrew was an Investor at Valinor Management (2018–2020), a mix that fits questions on corporate finance and operations at AI companies.
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Bhavin Patel
LinkedInExperience: Head of Finance · Midjourney
Midjourney's finance function is where Bhavin Patel has been Head of Finance since 2023, and Bhavin names generative AI and hardware alongside that role. Bhavin was Vice President, FP&A at MoonPay (2022–2023), Director, Strategic Finance (2020–2022) and Senior Manager, Strategic Finance (2018–2020) at Included Health, and Manager, Strategic Planning & Analysis at Autodesk (2015–2018), a fit for strategic finance questions.
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Francois Chadwick
LinkedInExperience: Chief Financial Officer · Cohere
In 2025 Francois Chadwick became Chief Financial Officer at Cohere, and holds Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) - Interim there at the same time. Francois was Partner at KPMG US (2023–2025) and Tax Partner (2012–2016) and National Tax Leader - Emerging Growth Practice (2014–2016) there, and cites CFO roles at Shield AI and Volta and acting CFO at Uber, so questions on scaling finance across products and regions fit.
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Johan Bergqvist
LinkedInExperience: Chief Financial Officer · Mistral
Mistral's Chief Financial Officer since 2026, Johan Bergqvist was Group CFO at Bolt (2019–2022) and has been a Board Member there since 2022. Johan has been ACE Advisory Board Member at the Stockholm School of Economics since 2018 and Member of the Investment Advisory Committee at EQT Ventures & Growth since 2018, a fit for questions on finance at an AI model company serving enterprises and governments.
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Jooree Na
LinkedInExperience: Former Chief Financial Officer · Anyscale
Before becoming Chief Financial Officer at Anyscale in 2024, Jooree Na held four FP&A and finance titles at Confluent, an IBM Company: Director, FP&A (2021–2022), Sr Director, Strategic Finance Corporate FP&A (2022–2023), Sr Director, Head of Corporate FP&A (2023–2024) and VP, Finance (2024). Anyscale sells enterprise AI infrastructure software, so Jooree fits questions on planning for an infrastructure software business.
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Joshua Waldron
LinkedInExperience: VP Finance & Accounting · Scale AI
CAO and SVP, Head of Finance is how Joshua Waldron describes the Scale AI role, held since 2022 under the title VP Finance & Accounting; Joshua has also been an Audit Committee Member at Careem since 2024. Joshua was VP Corporate Controller at Thumbtack (2020–2022) and Sr. Director, Global Controller Accounting Ops (2019–2020) and Assistant Controller (2017–2019) at Uber, so accounting operations questions fit.
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Mary M. Liu
LinkedInExperience: CFO · Runway
Mary M. Liu has been CFO at Runway since 2025 and was CFO at Applied Intuition (2019–2024), Strategy Lead, Google Assistant at Google (2018–2019) and Board Observer at Fatherly (2017–2018); Mary has also been a Board Director at Telluride Association since 2014. CFO roles at Applied Intuition and Runway make Mary a fit for questions on building a finance function at an AI company.
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Mukesh Singh, CFA
LinkedInExperience: Finance & Planning Lead , AI · Microsoft
Mukesh Singh, CFA describes leading financial planning for Microsoft's AI business, focused on forecasting, revenue planning and growth strategy, as Finance & Planning Lead , AI since 2025. Mukesh's other Microsoft titles are Senior Treasury Manager - FX, Cash, Trade finance (2022–2024), Senior Treasury Manager - Datacenter & AI Infrastructure (2020–2022) and Asia Pacific Treasury Manager (2019–2020), a fit for AI infrastructure cost questions.
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Nellie Stockhammer
LinkedInExperience: Chief Financial Officer · AI21 Labs
AI21 Labs, which builds foundation models and AI systems for the enterprise, has had Nellie Stockhammer as Chief Financial Officer since 2023, and Nellie has been an Advisor Investor since 2022. At KPMG, Nellie was Partner, Deal Advisory at KPMG Israel (2019–2022), Director, Deal Advisory (2018–2019) and Consultant, Financial Advisory Services (2011–2015), so fundraising and deal questions fit.
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Philippa Wong
LinkedInExperience: Group Financial Controller · Stability AI
At Stability AI, Philippa Wong moved from Interim Group Financial Controller (2024) to Group Financial Controller, a role held since 2024. Philippa was an Independent Contractor at Grant Thornton UK (2023–2024), Director Financial Control at Checkout.com (2021–2022) and Product Controller, Vice President at JPMorganChase (2012–2019), a fit for questions on group financial control and close at an AI company.
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Choose the right perspective
For company-level budgeting and fundraising questions, Johan Bergqvist, Francois Chadwick, Nellie Stockhammer, Mary M. Liu and Jooree Na hold CFO titles, and Bhavin Patel and Andrew Karpos give the head-of-finance view at Midjourney and Cognition. Philippa Wong and Joshua Waldron are the picks for controllership and accounting operations, and Mukesh Singh, CFA for forecasting an AI business inside Microsoft and for datacenter treasury.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you forecast GPU and inference costs when usage and model sizes change quarter to quarter?
- 02How do you decide how much compute to commit to in multi-year contracts versus buying it on demand?
- 03Which controls and reporting do you put in place first when an AI company's revenue starts climbing quickly?
About this directory
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