AI is (un)teaching humans surprising things about innovation
ABOUT
Thomas uses AI to analyze how businesses innovate and grow
Chief Technologist
Ducera Partners
Chief Technology Officer
WR Hambrecht + Co
For more than 50 years WR Hambrecht + Co and its predecessor, Hambrecht & Quist, have provided early growth capital to more than 500 companies including Apple, Amazon, Google and Nvidia
Managing Partner
Growth Science Ventures
Growth Science Ventures is a venture capital firm that builds bespoke funds for investors with unique strategic needs. Specializing in Seed to Series A, it leverages AI to identify disruptive startups
Thomas has helped guide billions of dollars in growth and innovation efforts worldwide and has served on Boards of Directors for multiple publicly traded, private and nonprofit organizations
Formerly, he used data science to guide innovation efforts at Intel and led research at Harvard with Professor Clayton Christensen to develop predictive models for disruptive innovation. He also helped found a business in the high performance computing industry that was acquired. He holds a BA, MBA, Juris Doctor and was a Fellow at the Harvard Business School
Thomas is interested in how innovation impacts social wellbeing and has lived in Australia, Bolivia, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Nepal, New Zealand, Panama and the US
SPEAKING
Sharing and learning with global innovators