Team

Zak Greant

CEO & Co-founder (LinkedIn)

Founder, Executive, Developer, Marketer, and Technical Evangelist.
25+ years experience in open source startups & electronic frontier non-profits, including Mozilla, MySQL AB, ActiveState, Free Software Foundation and the Open Source Initiative. Focus on strategy, governance, and community development.
Multiple startups and multiple exits.

Head of Computational Linguistics & AI Safety (LinkedIn)

Founder, Senior Language Engineer, and Product Manager.
10+ years of experience working AI and NLP at large companies and startups, including work on Assistant, Search and Bard at Google. Focus on innovation, AI ethics, privacy, data and DEI.
PhD in Informatics (NLP) and Masters in Linguistics. 15+ publications.
Grounded the field of Attribution Relations, developed reference corpus and relation extraction model supporting fact checking and quotation detection research.

Chief AI Scientist & Co-founder (LinkedIn)

Founder, Tech Executive, Advisor, Teacher & Scientist.
25+ years experience including 10+ years AI/ML R&D at GE and AI startups (MAANA, Pontoro, Noonum).
PhD in CS & AI. 10+ patents. 50+ publications. Teaches at University of Washington.

Board Chair & Co-founder (LinkedIn)

Founder, Entrepreneur, Tech Executive, and Principal Engineer.
25+ years software industry experience including 10+ years at Microsoft and multiple startups.
Former Node.js technical steering committee. Multiple patents.