Results-driven and visionary technology executive with over 25 years of diverse experience in banking, consultancy, and startups. Adept at navigating the dynamic intersection of finance and technology, I have consistently leveraged cutting-edge innovations such as AI, cloud computing, and blockchain to drive strategic growth and operational excellence. My extensive background includes successful stints in startups, consultancy roles, and hands-on experience in scaling AI platforms/products for funding. I bring a wealth of expertise in AI, data intelligence and a proven track record of leading high-performance development teams. Experience Summary Stealth Startup CTO/AI Advisor A B2B, RegTech AI startup, providing an AI-CoWorker for the regulatory teams of finance and insurance companies. By building proprietary foundation models we have been able to create super-specialists of regulations. EKAI is disrupting $50 billion regulatory software industry. We have made some great progress in very short time. • Create & drive roadmap for Banking-focused proprietary LLMs • Define framework to Pre-Train, Fine-Tune LLMs • Derive business requirements from focus group discussions and convert them into tech specs for developers • Accepted for Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) sandbox • Accepted for NVIDIA Inception program for startups • Accepted for AWS Startup credits • Discussions in progress with major banks to do a pilot • Created a process to collect, clean & classify training data • Lead the design & development of MVP • Devise strategy & process to fine-tune Large Language Models (LLMs, like GPT4, Mistral) for various domains plus 20 years of experience withi UK Banking Services as Principle Architect…Results-driven and visionary technology executive with over 25 years of diverse experience in banking, consultancy, and startups. Adept at navigating the dynamic intersection of finance and technology, I have consistently leveraged cutting-edge innovations such as AI, cloud computing, and blockchain to drive strategic growth and operational excellence. My extensive background includes successful stints in startups, consultancy roles, and hands-on experience in scaling AI platforms/products for funding. I bring a wealth of expertise in AI, data intelligence and a proven track record of leading high-performance development teams. Experience Summary Stealth Startup CTO/AI Advisor A B2B, RegTech AI startup, providing an AI-CoWorker for the regulatory teams of finance and insurance companies. By building proprietary foundation models we have been able to create super-specialists of regulations. EKAI is disrupting $50 billion regulatory software industry. We have made some great progress in very short time. • Create & drive roadmap for Banking-focused proprietary LLMs • Define framework to Pre-Train, Fine-Tune LLMs • Derive business requirements from focus group discussions and convert them into tech specs for developers • Accepted for Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) sandbox • Accepted for NVIDIA Inception program for startups • Accepted for AWS Startup credits • Discussions in progress with major banks to do a pilot • Created a process to collect, clean & classify training data • Lead the design & development of MVP • Devise strategy & process to fine-tune Large Language Models (LLMs, like GPT4, Mistral) for various domains plus 20 years of experience withi UK Banking Services as Principle ArchitectWWWW…