Zürich · Switzerland · Available 2026
Board Director & Tech Advisor · Chief AI Officer · Head of AI Enablement & CoE · Fractional / Interim CTO
Fifteen years across Amazon Lab126, Swiss finance and venture-backed startups. Today: independent board director and tech advisor to founders and boards on AI, CTO & Partner at thirty3, and co-initiator of AI Hub Switzerland. Still hands-on in code, architecture and delivery, not just the boardroom.
Selected institutions & clients
§ 01 · Profile
Fifteen years building, leading and advising on AI.
Built voice AI for Alexa at Amazon Lab126. Took cloud and big data into Switzerland's largest banks: UBS, Credit Suisse and Julius Baer. Founded and exited Anamii, an AI-powered wellness platform. Today, Co-founder, CTO & Partner at thirty3, leading AI strategy and delivery for clients from venture-backed startups and scale-ups to unicorns, SMEs and global corporates.
Three companies founded. 100+ people led across engineering, design and AI teams in Switzerland, India, Poland and the US, from Amazon and Anamii to Vicara and thirty3. 55+ AI products shipped across 10+ industries. A U.S. citizen of Indian heritage based in Zürich, with a UCLA MSc in data science and machine learning, and a multicultural lens on how AI teams actually get built.
§ 02 · Practice
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Chief AI Officer (CAIO), Head of AI Enablement & Centre of Excellence, or Fractional / Interim CTO for scale-ups, SMEs and corporates that need senior AI authority without a full-time hire. Setting strategy, building the CoE, hiring, architecture and delivery cadence. Hands-on where it counts: architecture reviews, prototyping and unblocking the team, not just slides.
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Independent assessments for M&A, fundraising and foundation grants. Recent work: SwissFoundations, Seedling Foundation, Malaica and early-stage AI startups.
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AI Opportunity Sprints, roadmaps and end-to-end production builds via thirty3, with me in the architecture and code alongside the team, not just the steering committee. 55+ AI products shipped, ~32 days average to pilot.
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Independent board director, advisory board member, technical advisor, plus keynotes, panels and moderation across Swiss and international stages.
§ 03 · Now
Since 2022 · Operating role
A global AI innovation studio that co-creates with teams to turn ambition into outcomes. With the thirty3 team we've shipped 55+ AI solutions in production across 10+ industries, for clients ranging from venture-backed startups and scale-ups to unicorns, SMEs and global corporates, including regulatory copilots, demand forecasting, knowledge agents, virtual try-on, customer intelligence and beyond.
See live solutionsSince 2026 · Co-initiator
A nation-wide, non-commercial initiative to close the AI adoption gap and future-proof Swiss SMEs. We bring together business, academia and the public sector to provide trusted expertise, neutral coordination and long-term capability building, strengthening competitiveness, workforce readiness and digital sovereignty.
Visit aihubswitzerland.ch§ 04 · Point of view
The shifts I'm watching, and what they mean for leaders deciding how AI changes what they build, sell and operate.
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AI is shifting value from selling software to delivering completed outcomes. The durable layer is workflow ownership, delivery design and outcome-based pricing, not model access. The product is the outcome.
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As model and token costs collapse, thin wrappers die. What survives is deep integration into a real workflow: the operational logic, the data plane, the messy edges only operators understand.
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Enterprises are moving from human-speed systems to agent-speed workloads. Existing APIs, orchestration and infra weren't built for recursive, high-concurrency AI activity. Treating AI as a UI layer underestimates the rebuild required underneath.
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AI doesn't just automate tasks; it lets expertise be packaged, scaled and sold like software. The winning operating models redesign the human-plus-machine split deliberately, not as an afterthought.
§ 05 · Stage
Keynotes and moderation on AI strategy, responsible AI, and emerging tech across industries. Two-year Swisspreneur podcast host. Co-lead of Wine'n'Ventures.