Board

Bill Wright

Chair

Enterprise Neurosystem is the brainchild of Bill Wright, arising out of his work with R&D leaders at major telcos in the Americas.

Bill is a Chief Architect in the CTO organization at Red Hat, with previous work in the field at Affirmed Networks (later acquired by Microsoft) and VMware. He is a frequent speaker on AI and open source innovation.

Dr. John Overton

Vice Chair and Treasurer

John Overton was a founding member of the Enterprise Neurosystem community and currently serves as Vice Chair and Treasurer. Dr. Overton is also the founder and CEO of Kove, Inc, a leading innovator in high-performance computing. John is committed to achieving new scale and ubiquity of adoption for AI/ML resources across the globe.

Dinesh Verma

Technical Committee Chair

Dinesh oversees the technical direction and execution of the Enterprise Neurosystem project and its sub-projects.

Dinesh is the Chief Scientist of Research Consulting Partnership at IBM TJ Watson Research Center, and a Fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering, an IEEE Fellow, and an IBM Fellow. He brings over 15 years of international leadership in network science and distributed analytics to the community.

Dr. Ryan Coffee

REN/Gov Industry Lead

Ryan is Senior Staff Research Scientist at Stanford Linear Accelorator Center (SLAC) and a core member of the SLAC AI Initiative since its inception. He has a particular focus on Machine Learning for real-time information extraction at the sensor edge, spending much of his time promoting co-design of compute and sensor hardware for both scientific research as well as applied technology and agriculture sectors.

Vishnu Hari

Financial Services Industry Lead

Vishnu Hari Kumar is a currently building a stealth startup, and previously worked as a Product Manager at Meta AI, leading AI Applied Research initiatives. Vishnu’s experience spans AI engineering and product leadership roles at companies like IBM, Accenture and EY.

Dr. Tong Zhang

Telco Industry Lead

Tong is a Principal Engineer and Lead Architect on AI and analytics in the Network Platforms Group of Intel Corporation, leading architecture efforts for Machine Learning and Deep Learning solutions for network domain use cases.

Before joining Intel, Dr. Zhang was a Principal Scientist in Hewlett-Packard Labs where she led over a dozen projects related to media analytics systems and products.

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Ganesh Harinath

IT Vendor Industry Lead

Ganesh is founder and CEO of Fiducia | AI. Previously, he served as VP & CTO for AI- driven enterprise applications for Verizon & Verizon Media for close to a decade. He is currently focused on delivering solutions to the Agritech world around
supply chain traceability, brand protection and consumer engagement
applications using Blockchain, AI & Augmented Reality.