AI is (un)teaching humans surprising things about innovation
 

Chief Technologist

Ducera Partners

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Ducera Partners is an investment firm, founded less than a decade ago, using AI to transform investment banking, venture capital, M&A, corporate restructuring and liability management. To date, the firm has exceeded $800 billion in deal volume, averaging around $100 billion in new deals per year

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Chief Technology Officer

WR Hambrecht + Co​

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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

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Managing Partner

Growth Science Ventures

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​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

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In Addition

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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

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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