Meet Lily

Amit Shah

Founder & CEO

20+ years of technology, B2B, product, and e-commerce leadership. Co-founders of AI Trailblazers. His perspectives on AI and enterprise technology have been featured in the WSJ, The New York Times, Forbes, and MIT Sloan Management Review, where he is a panelist on the Responsible AI series.

Sumantro Das

Co-Founder & COO

10+ years of sales, product, and partnership. Ex-FLWS, Mattress Firm, member of Google Chrome Advisory Board.

Iris Cheng

Founding Engineer

Specializes in backend development and artificial intelligence. Ex-Mayo Clinic, graduate of Brown University with a BS in Computer Science and Neuroscience.

Raghav Sharma

Chief Growth Officer

Specializes in growth and go-to-market. 20+ years of executive experience as a three-time Founder. Passionate about building great teams, products, and companies that push frontiers and deliver outsized value for clients. Favorite AI innovation? Can't tell you...yet.

Karim Motani

VP of Finance and Business Development

Formerly at Goldman Sachs, Insight Partners, 1-800 Flowers, ESW Capital, and Resurgens Technology Partners.

Rachel Krah

Head of People

Specializes in job architecture, workforce planning, and compensation. Passionate about contributing to strategic talent initiatives. Favorite AI innovation is NotebookLM.

Sasha Newman-Oktan

Chief of Staff

Specializes in product direction and go-to-market strategy, designing memory-grounded, agentic AI systems that learn, adapt, and autonomously execute enterprise workflows. Passionate about building systems that retain organizational memory and autonomously execute work at scale. Favorite AI innovation is DeepMind’s GNoME, which is accelerating the discovery of new materials for clean energy and scientific progress.

Vir Kashyap

Business Development Consultant

20+ years of experience in building and investing in technology companies across geographies. Co-Founder Babajob.com and General Partner at The Fund India / Everywhere Ventures. Ex-Indeed / Recruit, Morgan Stanley, Vega, Graduate of Bowdoin College.

Jeevan Dhillon

Director of Sales and Business Development

Specializes in go-to-market strategy & operations for AI & SaaS businesses. Passionate about building high performing teams and companies that prioritize culture and customer outcomes. Excited about how AI will and is transforming GTM.

Alex Kim

Design Lead

Specializes in design and frontend development. Passionate about AI and modern frontend frameworks and libraries. Favorite AI innovation is v0.

Dhiraj Khanal

Lead Software Engineer

Specializes in model distillation and alignment. Previously worked at CERN, Keyrock Capital, and Brown University. Passionate about aligning and distilling frontier models into fast SLMs. Favorite AI innovation: autonomous computer agents.

Ranjit Rauniyar

GM, EMEA

Specializes in enterprise AI adoption for professional services and B2B organizations. Passionate about AI's transformative potential: from AlphaFold revolutionizing drug discovery to agentic systems automating workflows. Favorite AI innovation is the shift from large language models to autonomous agents that don't just generate insights, but execute multi-step tasks and learn from outcomes.

Mateo Godoy

Senior Software Engineer

Specializes in backend development, AI-driven workflow automation, and agentic system design. Passionate about developing scalable agentic AI pipelines that transform complex enterprise operations into intelligent, self-improving systems. Favorite AI innovation is the emergence of small language models (SLMs) as the future backbone of agentic AI.

Logan Ge

Lead Software Engineer

Specializes in artificial intelligence and backend development. Passionate about designing scalable AI infrastructure. Favorite AI innovation is the perceptron.

Geneva Ng

Software Engineer

Specializes in backend engineering. Passionate about turning data into decisions. Favorite AI innovation is AI-augmented IDEs.

Mars Tan

Design Engineer

Specializes in product design and full-stack development. Passionate about blending aesthetic sensibility with technical skills and a lot of curiosity. Favorite AI innovation is Vercel AI Agent Workflow Development Kit.

Rainy Fan

Motion Designer

Specializes in motion graphics and interaction design. Passionate about 2D&3D mograph, animation, design language and system thinking. Favorite AI innovation is Midjourney and ElevenLabs.

Doris Huang

Associate, Product and AI Leadership Program

Specializes in AI-driven strategy and business growth. Passionate about advancing AI that augments human capability and reimagines how organizations operate. Favorite AI innovation is multi-agent collaboration—autonomous systems that reason, debate, and evolve together to shape the future of work.

Sai Koushik

Software Engineer

Specializes in the LLM inference stack. Passionate about squeezing maximum performance from compute resources to speed up AI inference. Favorite AI innovation is diffusion language models: the idea of iteratively refining outputs through a denoising process opened up new ways of thinking about generation beyond autoregressive approaches.

Justin Jones

Software Engineer

Specializes in machine learning. Previously worked at Jane Street. Passionate about nuanced information retrieval and memory insertion. Favorite AI innovation is Self-RAG.

Dylan Wilbur

Software Engineer

Specializes in backend development and machine learning engineering. Passionate about security, safety, and sustainability. Favorite AI innovation is transformers.

Dana You

Machine Learning Engineer

Specializes in data analysis and web automation tools. Graduate of UC Berkeley with a BA in Data Science & Sociology. Passionate about building intelligent systems that solve real business problems. Favorite AI innovation is multi-modal applications and OCR.

Nadia Hossain

Software Engineer

Specializes in full-stack development. Passionate about translating complex challenges into elegant, user-centric solutions. Favorite AI innovation is the evolution of edge AI and its applications in real-time systems.

Kedan Zha

Software Engineer

Specializes in full-stack development with Swift, Python, JavaScript, React, and AI integration. Passionate about B2B SaaS, FinTech, EdTech. Favorite AI innovation is MCP, Conversational AI.

Shane Arceo

Software Engineer

Specializes in cloud engineering and full-stack development. Previously worked at J.P. Morgan as an investment banker. Passionate about building performant software. Favorite AI innovation is the transformer.

Evan Vera

Software Engineer

Specializes in high performance computing and distributed systems. Passionate about building efficient, robust, and cost-effective systems. Favorite AI innovation is specialized hardware accelerators.

Maya Magavi

Software Engineer

Specializes in applied machine learning and full-stack development. Passionate about building technology to integrates into and enhances people's lives. Favorite AI innovation is real-time speech-to-speech models.

Kathleen Ge

Software Engineer

Specializes in AI systems and applied machine learning. Passionate about building scalable, intelligent systems that bring AI research into real-world applications. Favorite AI innovation is compound AI systems.

Devansh Sharma

Software Engineer

Specializes in backend development. Passionate about building AI tools to boost human productivity. Favorite AI innovation is Claude Code.

Rohan Freedman

Growth Analyst

Specializes in AI product strategy grounded in neuroscience and human behavior. Passionate about exploring how insights from brain science can shape the way AI systems learn, remember, and make decisions, while using AI research to advance our understanding of human cognition and behavior. Favorite AI innovation is OpenEvidence, for how it bridges research and real-world practice by transforming medical literature into instant, evidence-based insight at the point of care.

Jeff Wu

AI Engineer

Specializes in Natural Language Processing and building agentic frameworks. Passionate about advancing practical AI systems that bridge research breakthroughs with real-world applications. Favorite AI innovation is AlphaFold, which predicts protein structures from amino acid sequences and accelerates biology research.

Anirudh Nori

GTM Engineer

Specializes in blending technical product expertise, analytics and growth strategy. Graduate of Columbia University with an MS in Management Science & Engineering.

Gautam VR

Software Engineer

Specializes in backend development in AI/ML systems with focus on cloud. Passionate about bridging deep AI research with scalable systems that provide real world impact. Favorite AI innovation is the emergence of autonomous AI agents that can reason, plan, and execute tasks end-to-end.

Joan Zhang

Software Engineer

Specializes in Applied Machine Learning and Full-Stack Development. Passionate about applying AI to real-world problems. Favorite AI innovation is LoRA — enabling model fine-tuning with only a few layers instead of retraining all parameters.

Nesu Nhamo

Software Engineer

Specializes in context engineering. Passionate about history: how it tells the mechanics of reality and shapes future. Favorite AI innovation is neural networks: how ideas of attention, encoding, decoding, and diffusion are parallels to how consciousness apprehends the world.

Adam von Bismarck

Software Engineer

Specializes in full stack development. Passionate about applied AI systems. Favorite AI innovation is Claude Code.

Sana Mehta

GTM Engineer

Specializes in marketing automation and machine learning. Passionate about creating technology that empowers people, drives social impact, and makes innovation more human centered.

Claudia Lihar

Software Engineer

Specializes in full-stack engineering. Passionate about closing the gap between AI research and usable products. Favorite AI innovation is Perplexity.

Aditi Singh

Software Engineer

Specializes in full-stack development and distributed systems. Graduate student at the University of Southern California pursuing an MS in Computer Science. Former intern at Amazon Web Services and Google Open-Source.

Keegan Li

Software Engineer

Specializes in AI agent development and machine learning. Passionate about making AI accessible and beneficial to everyone, regardless of technical ability. Favorite AI innovation is the MCP server, which combines natural language with technical processes.

Hyuk Ahn

Software Engineer

Specializes in agentic development. Passionate about building efficient and scalable agentic solutions. Favorite AI innovation is Anthropic Petri, which uses agents to perform realistic audits on model behavior.

Viraj Shah

Software Engineer

Specializes in infrastructure and cloud engineering. Passionate about optimization in agentic orchestration and context layer engineering. Favorite AI innovation is the rise of the agentic browser: autonomous agents dynamically navigating and reasoning across the live web to achieve complex goals end-to-end.

Charlotte Walsh

Business and Growth Analyst

Specializes in product strategy, operations research, and quantitative decision-making. Passionate about giving people their time back. Favorite AI innovation is InstaBrain™.

Stephanie Olaiya

Software Engineer

Specializes in full-stack development. Passionate about the applications of computer science in the medicine and biotechnology. Favorite AI innovation is Brainoware which is a hybrid biocomputing system combining brain organoids with AI for speech recognition and computing developed to address the limitations of traditional silicon-based AI, such as high energy consumption and the physical separation of processing and memory.

Keyan O'Donnell

GTM Engineer

Specialises in GTM and growth strategy. Passionate about developing the business and driving expansion to the MENA region. Favorite AI innovation is democratization of SLM usage for small scale deployments (company-scale).

Tenzin Diki

Operations Coordinator

Specializes in decision science, organizational behavior, and business strategy. Passionate about leveraging behavioral science to inform business strategy, organizational design, and decision-making processes. Favorite AI innovation is custom GPTs and Gemini Gems.

Tyler Handin

Account Executive

Specializes in enterprise AI solutions, sales strategy, and automation-driven growth. Passionate about helping organizations harness intelligent automation to eliminate inefficiency and unlock new revenue opportunities. Favorite AI innovation is autonomous agent orchestration—how multiple AI systems can collaborate to execute complex workflows without human handoff.

Victor Brown

Software Engineer

Specializes in fullstack development with experience in mobile development. Former intern at Google. Passionate about solving complex problems. Favorite AI innovation is the transformer.

Clement Nyanhongo

Software Engineer

Specializes in Agent Development and Machine Learning. Passionate about technology and investing. Favorite AI innovation is Claude Code.

Annie Miller

Software Engineer

Specializes in machine learning and statistics. Passionate about data science for decision making. Favorite AI innovation is zero-shot forecasting advancements.

Anoud Saeed

Social Media & Marketing Associate

Specializes in social media marketing. Previously worked at Circuit Media and Weber Shanwick. Passionate about good stories. Favorite AI Innovation is Figma Background remover tool. (It works like magic!)

Lindsay Gould

Growth Analyst

Specializes in growth strategy, product design, and data analytics. Passionate about natural and artificial intelligence. Favorite AI innovation is InstaBrain™.

Yuna He

Product Designer

Specializes in UX and Product Design, with a focus on AI-driven systems, cross-device chatbot experiences, and data visualization for enterprise dashboards. Passionate about transforming the invisible logic of AI into tangible, human experiences. Favorite AI innovation is autonomous driving and AI-powered vector animations.

Brigit Jacob

Growth Analyst

Specializes in business and growth, focusing on go-to-market strategy. Passionate about management and organizational growth. Favorite AI innovation is predictive financial planning.

Aya Hajjeh

Software Engineer

Specializes in full-stack and AI agent development. Passionate about democratizing AI through intuitive tools and the intersection of AI and human-centered design. Favorite AI innovation is open-source models that democratize access to AI technology.

Stephenie Chen

Growth Analyst

Specializes in decision-making models and translating software into business value. Previously worked at the MIT Media Lab. Passionate about reducing cognitive load to accelerate human fulfillment and joy-seeking. Favorite AI innovation is applying reinforcement learning models to develop and evaluate solutions for psychiatric disorders.

Antônio Victor Machado de Oliveira

GTM Engineer

Specializes in Machine Learning and Chip Design. Passionate about AI infrastructure. Favorite AI innovation is the Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), a breakthrough custom ASIC.

Matthew Su

Business and Growth Analyst

Specializes in AI product strategy and portfolio management. Previously worked at Citadel, GitHub, and Summit trail Advisors. Passionate about bridging the gap between ideas and reality. Favorite AI innovation is Suno.

Alex Duchnowski

Software Engineer

Specializes in computational linguistics. Passionate about augmenting LLM reasoning abilities and creating scalable systems. Favorite AI innovation is Byte-pair encodings.

London Mahaley

Editorial Engineer

Specializes in post-structuralist and performance theory. Passionate about inspiring teams to invest in each other through shared projects. Favorite AI innovation is artists who use AI as an intentional part of their work.

Riley Shafer

Creative Strategist

Specializes in creative media, brand strategy, and design. Passionate about connecting with audiences in smart, innovative ways. Favorite AI innovation is Stable Diffusion.

Judith Politi

Business and Growth Analyst

Specializes in AI-driven product design and growth strategy. Passionate about bridging data, design, and business strategy to make AI-driven products more intuitive, scalable, and user-focused. Favorite AI innovation is accessibility technology powered by AI, such as Be My Eyes.

Akhil Reddy

Software Engineer

Specializes in backend development & AI engineering. Passionate about safe and scalable AI systems. Favorite AI innovation is autonomous vehicles.

Arman Mohammadi

Software Engineer

Specializes in performance optimization, graphics programming, and robotics simulation. Passionate about the future of AI and robotics. Favorite AI innovation is OpenAI's real-time voice chat API, an incredible and often underestimated piece of technology.

Debadrita Dey

Software Engineer

Specializes in full-stack development, AI and product strategy. Passionate about leveraging AI to build scalable, data-driven solutions that enhance business efficiency. Favorite AI innovation is AI-augmented IDEs that make coding faster, smarter, and more collaborative.

Liam Deng

Product Designer

Specializes in interactive product design and motion graphics. Passionate about transforming complex workflows into intuitive, emotionally resonant user experiences. Favorite AI innovation is multimodal generative design, where language, vision, and motion converge to accelerate creativity.

James Tan

Software Engineer Intern

Specializes in AI applications. Previously worked at Pomerleau and RockyCore Technology. Passionate about automating workflows with AI. Favorite AI innovation: the transformer’s attention mechanism.

Sangwoo Lee

Design Intern

Specializes in motion graphics design. Passionate about 3D animations and projection mapping. Favorite AI innovation is Sora2 which can generate realistic video quickly.

Nathan Williams

Design Intern

Specializes in communication and information design. Passionate about accessible design and transforming data into clear, inclusive visuals that make information understandable for everyone. Favorite AI innovation are tools that help designers think and conceptualize along their creative process.

Polina Belova

Editorial Engineer Intern

Specializes in Digital Humanities research. Passionate about interdisciplinary digital publishing. Favorite AI innovation is AI-generated podcasts.

Bao

Chief Hallucination Officer

Team pet who specializes in sniffing out LLM hallucinations!