We are AI for Good
Meet the team of darers and doers that are challenging the way the world thinks of AI.
Core Team
James Hodson
CEO & Member of the Board of Directors
James is the AI for Good Foundation’s Co-founder and CEO, who has previously spearheaded Artificial Intelligence initiatives at a number of global firms, and has built successful (and sustainable) for-profit ventures in a variety of industries.
Tia Christopher
VP Operations
Tia joined AI for Good in 2020 as VP of Operations. She has a background in non-profit policy and management and most recently worked as an independent fund development and strategic growth consultant.
Blaz Novak
VP of Engineering
Blaz holds a Ph.D in Artificial Intelligence from the Jozef Stefan Institute in Slovenia, and has more than two decades of experience implementing real-world, peta-scale systems across a broad variety of domains.
Ruchir Sachdev
VP Marketing
Ruchir has worked as Creative Director and Brand Consultant with leading global advertising agencies in Europe and Asia across clients such as Lexus, HSBC, P&G, Adidas, and Pernod Ricard.
Lindsey Asis
Program Coordinator
Lindsey is a senior at the University of Texas at Austin, double-majoring in Government and Sustainability Studies with a minor in Iberian Studies. Lindsey has worked in the non-profit sector, on city and congressional campaigns, and in state-level government.
Ifejesu Ogunleye
Sustainable Development Policy Fellow
Ifejesu is a graduate student of Development Practice at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to enrolling in graduate school, she worked as an attorney advising clients on regulatory compliance.
Board Members
Rayid Ghani
Member of the Board of Directors
Rayid is a Distinguished Career Professor in the Machine Learning Department and the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. He is focused on increasing the use of large-scale AI, Machine Learning and Data Sciences in equitably solving public policy and social challenges.
Marko Grobelnik
Board Observer
Marko works as a researcher in AI Lab at Jozef Stefan Institute. Marko is the Slovenia’s digital champion at European Commission and part of the OECD AI expert group.
James Hodson
CEO & Member of the Board of Directors
James is the AI for Good Foundation’s Co-founder and CEO, who has previously spearheaded Artificial Intelligence initiatives at a number of global firms, and has built successful (and sustainable) for-profit ventures in a variety of industries.
Abe Hsuan
Board Observer
Abe is the co-founder and partner of Irwin & Hsuan LLP with clients on four continents. He has co-founded and helmed a funded startup that developed AI natural language processing tools for top NY-based news organizations.
Claudia Perlich
Member of the Board of Directors
Claudia served as a chief scientist at Two Sigma, where she was responsible for the reliable estimation of targeting models and the supervision of a real-time scoring engine that identified the target segments of browsers. Since 2011, Claudia has worked as an adjunct professor teaching Data Mining in the M.B.A. program at the New York University Stern School of Business.
Achim Rettinger
Member of the Board of Directors
Achim studied Computer Science at Universität Koblenz, the Artificial Intelligence Center at University of Georgia, and the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute at University of Alberta. Since 2019, Achim Rettinger has been a full professor at Trier University, where he started the research group on Knowledge Representation Learning.
Michael Witbrock
Chairman & Member of the Board of Directors
Michael is one of the founders of AI for Good Foundation and currently serves as both Board Chairman and Scientific Director. Michael is a Professor at University of Aukland, New Zealand and previously the head of IBM’s Research and AI Reasoning Group.
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