Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council

Jason Juliano

Director of Digital Transformation, EisnerAmper Digital

Jason Juliano is a Director within EisnerAmper Digital with over 25 years’ experience as a technology and risk management executive. A results-driven technology leader, he executes cutting-edge solutions across digital, cloud, cybersecurity, intelligent automation, data management, and analytics. Jason drives high-impact client engagements from strategy through execution, working with leaders at the intersection of innovation, emerging technologies, operations, and organizational transformation.

Jason has held executive leadership roles with several Fortune 100 firms within various industries, including investment banking, financial services, insurance, and health care. Jason has been a member of the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS/ISAC) and the Wall Street Technology Association. He has been IBM Champion since 2018 in IBM Cloud, Blockchain, Data and AI. He is recognized as a thought leader within the Microsoft, IBM, Google and AWS communities. He has been a speaker at many international conferences on AI, Digital Transformation and Cloud technologies.

Manoj Suvarna

Managing Director | AI Ecosystems, Deloitte New Venture Accelerator

Manoj Suvarna is a Managing Director and the Ecosystems Leader in the Strategy & Analytics offering overseeing AI & Data Alliances. In this role, he represents Deloitte’s AI & Data practice in, identifying & executing ecosystem relationships with technology & data partners to support business growth initiatives.

Manoj started his career with Deloitte in April 2021. Prior to this he spent almost 24 years at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) in a variety of leadership roles spanning Product Management, Sales GTM, P&L Management & Alliances Marketing.

Manoj holds an MBA in Marketing from University of Memphis and a BS in Production Engineering from University of Bombay. He also completed an Executive Course on AI at MIT. He serves as Co-Chair of the AI Advisory Council @CompTIA and is based in Houston, TX.

Mechie Nkengla

CEO/Chief Data Strategist, Data Products LLC

Dr. Mechie Nkengla, an expert in the data and AI landscape, is the Founder and Chief Data Strategist at Data Products LLC, a data & AI consultancy. A Ph.D. Mathematician, she has extensive experience partnering with industry, academia, and government as a strategic advisor to Executive Leadership teams, building strategic roadmaps and tactical plans to ensure optimal use of technology investments. Formerly a director at EY Analytics Center of Excellence, she is a highly experienced data executive and the holder of multiple patents. Dr. Nkengla is widely respected as a thought leader in the realms of data strategy, AI, machine learning, data literacy, and governance. She enjoys hiking, dancing, and eating seafood, not necessarily in that order.

Christopher Hazard

CTO/Cofounder, Diveplane Corporation

Dr. Chris Hazard is co-founder and CTO of Diveplane. Diveplane’s understandable and privacy enhancing AI spun out of Hazardous Software, a company Chris founded in 2007 that focuses on decision support, visualization, and simulation for hard strategy problems in large organizations, DoD, and government. Chris holds a PhD in computer science from NC State, with focus on artificial intelligence for trust and reputation. He was a software architect of CDMA infrastructure at Motorola, worked on robot coordination and logistics at Kiva Systems (now Amazon Robotics), and advised NATO on cyber security policies. He has led simulation, serious gaming, and software projects related to cyber security, social engineering, logistics, economics, and psychology, and is a certified hypnotist. Dr. Hazard is also known for his 2011 game Achron, which won GameSpot’s Best Original Game Mechanic award, and for his research on AI/ML, privacy, game design, and human-computer interaction, for which he has given keynote speeches at major conferences and been featured in mainstream media.

Karen Silverman

CEO/Founder, The Cantellus Group

Karen is a leading global expert in practical governance strategies for AI and other frontier technologies. As the CEO and Founder of The Cantellus Group, she advises Fortune 50 companies, startups, consortia, and the public sector on how to manage cutting-edge technologies and organizational governance in a rapidly changing policy environment. Her expertise is informed by more than 20 years of practice and management leadership at Latham & Watkins, LLP where she advised global businesses in complex antitrust matters, M&A, governance, ESG, and crisis management. Karen chairs the board of a public benefit corporation developing complex content moderation tools. She is a World Economic Forum Global Innovator and a member of its Expert Network. She serves on the boards of AIEDU, Legal Momentum and Not For Sale.

David Tan

Chief Technology Officer, CrushBank

David is Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of CrushBank. He built and then dismantled his first computer at the age of 12 and has been obsessed with technology ever since. He designed and built the very first version of CrushBank and his vision continues to shape the direction of the product today.

David has always been a hands-on technologist whose proficiencies in multiple disciplines range from application development to cognitive computing, machine learning and artificial intelligence. He has a passion for embracing new and emerging technologies and guiding companies through the changing world of the cognitive IT Support industry. Prior to CrushBank, he was the co-founder and CTO of CHIPS Technology Group, a 20+ year-old managed service provider in New York that has been regularly awarded with industry recognition.

Finding ways to help people work better and more efficiently has been a driving focus of David’s career and he continues to strive for ways to get the best results. “I don’t want to find a way to use technology to replace people,” he says, “I want to find a way to help people use technology to be better and happier.