Andrei Mellas

ADAPT GROW FITNESS 

Design and deliver bespoke fitness and wellness programs for CEOs and business leaders, focusing on strength, nutrition, and mindset to drive peak performance.  

Achieve measurable client outcomes, including weight loss, increased energy, and enhanced confidence, with a 95% client retention rate.  

Conduct in-person training sessions tailored to busy schedules, ensuring sustainable results through holistic strategies.

Owner

Founder Adapt Grow Fitness & Ai Interdisciplinary Collective

I help men and women 35+ in Michigan get strong, lean, and energized again—using a powerful mix of personal training, medical-grade hormone optimization, and no-BS coaching that actually works.
For men, I specialize in TRT-fueled fitness transformations—restoring muscle, confidence, and energy when testosterone levels start tanking.

For women, I coach peptide-supported fat loss programs designed specifically for the hormonal chaos of the late 30s to mid-40s—helping you drop 20+ pounds, boost metabolism, and feel in control of your body again.

I offer real, personalized transformation programs backed by medical diagnostics, smart coaching, and unmatched accountability.

This isn’t about quick fixes or motivation posters—it’s about finally fixing the root cause of why your body stopped responding… and giving you the roadmap to take it back.

✅ In-person coaching available in Michigan
✅ Virtual programs with integrated doctor referral + bloodwork
✅ 8–12 week high-performance programs for serious clients only

If you’re a professional in your late 30s or 40s and tired of guessing, suffering, or stalling—I got you.

Founder

Conducting research and analysis on the applications and implications of data analysis and artificial intelligence, and to use the findings of this research to promote the public good and benefit society through the development and deployment of ethical, responsible, and effective Al technologies and practices.

Helen Yu

CEO @Tigon Advisory Corp. | Host of CXO Spice | Board Director |Top 50 Women in Tech | AI, Cybersecurity, FinTech, Insurance, Industry40, Growth Acceleration

As the founder and CEO of Tigon Advisory, I help tech companies of all sizes multiply their growth opportunities by leveraging AI, cybersecurity, IoT, supply chain, and customer experience. With over a decade of technology industry experience, I offer CXO-as-a-service and guidance to organizations through digital transformation, strategic planning, enterprise risk management, go-to-market optimization, and influencer marketing.

I have worked with enterprise clients such as SAP, IBM, Salesforce and Microsoft, as well as B2B SaaS, Fintech, Insuretech, and Martech startups. I also serve as an independent board director and a venture capital advisor, where I bring a unique perspective on technology thought leadership, cybersecurity risk management, go-to-market strategy, and customer experience. I am a certified cybersecurity expert from MIT Sloan School of Management, an MBA from Loyola University of Chicago, and a respected industry thought leader, a Wall Street Journal best selling author, a keynote speaker, and a host of CXO Spice podcast. I am passionate about empowering and mentoring the next generation of technology leaders, especially women and minorities.

Director Board of Directors

CEC is a security service integrator with focus markets in manufacturing, healthcare, SLED and Corporate Campus.  Customers with complicated organizations and physical plants rely on CEC as extensions of their teams in making strategic investment and management decisions related to their technology and infrastructure. I serve as Culture and Compensation Committee Chair. 

How do you ensure autonomous vehicles are safe when you can't possibly test every real-world driving scenario?

At NVIDIA GTC, I explored AI-powered autonomous vehicles and discovered NVIDIA Halos, a comprehensive safety system that's redefining how we approach this challenge.

Here's how Halos solves this challenge:
✅ Photorealistic virtual simulations generate countless driving scenarios
✅ AI-powered contingency plans activate when anomalies are detected
✅ Continuous monitoring ensures safety and reliability

Three-Pillar Validation Approach:
✅ NVIDIA DGX for AI development with advanced curation workflows that filter out undesirable behaviors before they ever reach the road
✅ Omniverse with Cosmos for photorealistic simulation, generating massive variations in our safety test data
✅ DRIVE AGX for deployment, where modular redundancy ensures safety even when AI models show uncertainty

Industry Recognition:
✅ First AI systems lab to earn ANAB and TÜV certification
✅ Internationally certified technology for end-to-end AV safety

Complete Safety Stack:
✅ A2le-decertified Drive OS and automotive-grade hardware
✅ Modular redundant architecture with third-party validation
Every layer designed to handle critical driving tasks safely

The future of autonomous vehicles is certified and validated safety systems.

#AutonomousVehicles #AI #Safety #NVIDIAGTC #AVDevelopment #Innovation 

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What will separate AI leaders from AI laggards in 2026?

Pleased to contribute to the 2026 DATAcated Trends & Predictions Report, and the insights from 14 data and AI leaders point to a transformative year ahead.

My prediction? AI agents evolve from tools to true workplace teammates.

In 2025, we saw AI become multimodal - processing text, images, and voice simultaneously. Agentic AI systems began handling complex multi-step tasks autonomously, with reasoning models showing dramatic problem-solving improvements.

Here's what I see for 2026:
✅ AI agents as colleagues - Independently managing projects and workflows end-to-end
✅ Real-time data processing becomes critical - AI systems require continuous learning from live streams
✅ Synthetic data generation explodes - Addressing data scarcity for specialized training
✅ Federated learning scales - Training across distributed datasets without compromising privacy
✅ Data governance intensifies - Lineage tracking under regulatory pressure
Organizations treating data as dynamic fuel will be the ones that thrive.

Special thanks to Kate Strachnyi and DATAcated for assembling perspectives from Cassie Kozyrkov, Marinela Profi, Bernard Marr, Lara Sophie Bothur, Stijn (Stan) Christiaens, Christina Stathopoulos, MSc, Serena H. Huang, Ph.D., Helen Yu, Pascal BORNET, Jess Ramos ⚡️, Kristen Kehrer, Andreas Kretz, Sadie St Lawrence.

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What are you most excited about for AI in 2026?

#AITrends2026 #CIO #CTO #CEO #BoardDirectors #Data #AI

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2026 AI Trends & Predictions

How do you deploy AI infrastructure before the AI systems even arrive?

Schneider Electric's new reference designs, co-engineered with NVIDIA, provide the answer.

Industry-First Controls Framework Bridges OT and IT systems through standardized MQTT architecture, enabling seamless interoperability between power management, liquid cooling, and NVIDIA Mission Control. Real-time optimization across every layer of the stack.

NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 Reference Design Supports rack densities up to 142 kW with validated frameworks for the next-generation Blackwell Ultra architecture. Digital twin capabilities through ETAP and EcoStruxure IT Design CFD enable pre-deployment simulation.

The focus on redundancy, power quality monitoring, and validated engineering directly addresses the industry's deployment bottleneck.

I look forward to attending Schneider Electric's Innovation Summit in Las Vegas next Tuesday and Wednesday, touring their switch data center and examining these solutions firsthand.

Watch the keynote: https://lnkd.in/gxuRQGjm
#Energy #Tech #AI #Grid #Automation #DataCenter

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How prepared is your organization to bounce back when an AI-driven disruption hits?

That’s the focus of my latest CEO newsletter, following Commvault Shift Virtual, where I outlined why AI resilience is becoming a top priority for executive teams and boards.

AI is accelerating decision-making, increasing identity complexity, and tightening the margin for recovery. Resilience is a strategic imperative.

In the newsletter, I break down the shift toward Commvault Cloud Unity and Resilience Operations (ResOps), and why unifying security, identity, and recovery is essential for organizations building on AI.

👉 Read the full newsletter for the board-level perspective and what this means for the years ahead. Watch the replay here: https://lnkd.in/gN6WmZ9C

What’s the biggest AI-resilience concern on your radar right now?

#CommvaultSHIFT #CyberResilience #CISO #CIO #CTO #CEO #BoardDirectors

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A Message from Sanjay Mirchandani, CEO, Commvault “The question we’re addressing today is simple: how fast can you recover in a world where breaches a

Open article: Commvault Shift Virtual: The Dawn of AI Resilience by Helen Yu • 4 min read

Commvault Shift Virtual: The Dawn of AI Resilience

What's it like watching the Las Vegas Grand Prix qualifications from the T-Mobile Magenta tower?

Unforgettable.

Huge thanks to T-Mobile for hosting such an incredible experience—the views from the Sphere Magenta Club were unmatched, and the magenta glow fit right in with The Sphere's spectacular light show. Started the evening with my first-ever aura reading, then tried on a racing suit and helmet. My AI-generated racing persona? Nano Banana 🍌.

Finished the night watching qualifications light up The Sphere while hanging out with a creative bunch—turning online connections into real ones, surrounded by the T-Mobile team and fellow F1 fans.

Sometimes the best experiences come from saying yes to the unexpected. 🏎️

#LasVegasGP #F1 T-Mobile For Business #SphereMagenta 

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What is an AI factory and why it matters?

At NVIDIA GTC in Washington DC, I had a conversation with Anne Brennan Hecht, Senior Director of Product Marketing for Enterprise at NVIDIA, to unpack this question. 

Her answer made me pause:
"You can build out the infrastructure, but until you bring data up, you just have AI infrastructure. Until you bring your enterprise data in and you're actually building a workflow, a chatbot, an agent that's getting intelligence from your data and providing results in the form of tokens, then that really does become your factory, your AI factory."

Three insights that stood out:
✅ Data + Action = Factory Infrastructure alone isn't enough. The magic happens when enterprise data meets intelligent workflows, producing real business value.
✅ AI Factory for Government includes STIG-hardened, FIPS-enabled software containers with the latest NVIDIA AI Enterprise release. Government agencies and enterprises can now deploy NVIDIA's government-ready software in high-security environments.
✅ Start Your Flywheel Imperfectly Anne shared how one enterprise launched their chatbot at 80% accuracy with humans in the loop. It improved through use. You can't get results until you start.

AI is not a tool, it's a transformation engine that powers factories, revolutionizes industries, and unlocks human potential at unprecedented scale.

Watch #CXOSpice conversation here: https://lnkd.in/gyaGqdYq

#NVIDIAGTC #AIFactory #PhysicalAI #IndustrialRenaissance

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"You can build out the infrastructure, but until you bring data up, you just have AI infrastructure. Until you bring your enterprise data in and you'r

Open article: Powering AI Factories: Inside NVIDIA's Enterprise Vision by Helen Yu • 4 min read

Powering AI Factories: Inside NVIDIA's Enterprise Vision

The gap between data and AI success? Context.

SaaS brought agility but broke cohesion. Enterprises now have powerful data islands that don't speak the same language.

On November 18, discover how SAP Business Data Cloud unifies data across finance, supply chain, HR, and procurement—creating the semantic layer your AI models need to deliver real business value.

Register 👉: https://lnkd.in/g5VYih_7

Hear from Accenture's Terje "T" Sorlie and SAP's Justin Ham & Orla Cullen on building AI-ready data foundations, plus live demos:
✅ Intelligent applications in action
✅ Agentic AI with SAP Joule
✅ Predictive planning powered by AI-ready data

SAP and SAP S/4HANA Cloud ERP #Event #AI #Data

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Want to know what kills most transformations?

After sitting through 82 acquisitions at Oracle, I learned it's not strategy. It's not talent. It's not even budget.

It's legacy infrastructure that no one wants to talk about.

I keep seeing the same pattern in boardrooms:
CEOs are betting big on AI. But most are burning 35% more on cloud than they should.

Here's why:
Data platforms built 20 years ago were designed to store information.
Today you need to access data instantly, wherever it lives, to drive AI outcomes.
That fundamental shift broke the old model.

I've lived this.
In a previous role scaling a SaaS company, our infrastructure costs outpaced revenue growth. We upgraded systems. Added capacity. Getting smarter about how we accessed data was the secret source.

Companies like Zetaris are solving this differently.
Intelligent systems that optimize how data gets accessed and processed.
The impact:
✅ Cloud costs drop 30-60%
✅ Performance improves
✅ Data becomes an advantage, not a drain

Is our infrastructure investment aligned with our AI strategy or working against it?

Explore more: https://bit.ly/4mGo0W4 or Follow Zetaris

#DigitalTransformation #AIStrategy #Governance #DataAnalytics

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What's the one thing you can't teach in business? Experience.

In the final part of my conversation with Richard Howells, VP of Solution Management at SAP, we talked about what sets SAP apart after 50 years in the industry.

That’s Earned trust through experience.

SAP offers 400+ pre-built models, so companies don't have to start from scratch. Plus, with 300 million users in the community, you have access to a wealth of shared knowledge from companies at every stage of their supply chain journey.

And here's Richard’s advice for those just starting out: Think cloud first.
When you're in the cloud, you can leverage the latest AI innovations, keep up with evolving regulations automatically, and stay current without constant manual updates. As Richard put it: "The time is now for cloud."

In times of business uncertainty, you need a foundation built on decades of experience and a platform designed for tomorrow's challenges. That's how you Pivot Fast, Run Lean, and Grow Strong.

Ready to build your future on proven experience and cutting-edge innovation? Explore how SAP helps you navigate uncertainty: https://lnkd.in/gzkffikz 

Thank you, Richard, for sharing these invaluable insights on the future of supply chain and business transformation.

#SAP #CloudFirst #SupplyChain #DigitalTransformation #Innovation
 
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Can AI infrastructure be both sovereign AND scalable?

NVIDIA and Amazon Web Services (AWS) proved it can.
At #AWSreInvent, they announced a partnership that redefines enterprise AI:
✅ NVLink Fusion on Trainium - massive model training, unleashed
✅ AWS AI Factories with Blackwell GPUs - your data, your control, infinite scale
✅ Nemotron on Bedrock - serverless agentic AI, no infrastructure headaches
✅ GPU-accelerated vector search - Amazon OpenSearch + NVIDIA cuVS = 10x faster indexing at 25% of the cost
✅ Physical AI at scale - NVIDIA Cosmos world foundation models now on AWS for robotics and simulation

I will be hosting Dave Salvator, Director of Accelerated Computing at NVIDIA, to unpack what this means on CXO Spice.
We're talking:
✅ Why sovereign AI infrastructure just became enterprise-ready
✅ What 20K+ Blackwell GPUs unlock
✅ How to protect your models while scaling fast

The AI infrastructure conversation just got rewritten.

Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gTUeW_hy
What's holding back your AI deployment—compute, sovereignty, or both? 👇

#NVIDIAPartner #AWS #AI #Blackwell #Enterprise

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What happens when intelligence becomes the most powerful fuel in energy?

We saw the answer unfold at #ADIPEC2025 where AI is transforming how energy is produced, managed, and delivered.

The AI Zone & Digitalisation Conference showcased ~10,000 products embedding intelligence into energy systems.

Key takeaways:
✅ AI reshaping leadership - driving efficiency, resilience & smarter capital allocation
✅ Industry leaders (SandboxAQ, Cisco, ENERSOL) calling for bold, coordinated AI investment
✅ Workforce shift: 92M jobs displaced, 170M created (Cisco) — reskilling is critical

Tech highlights:
🐕 Laika (MBZUAI) - AI robot dog
🖥️ G42's Project Stargate - UAE's hyperscale AI backbone
🏭 Accenture's Refinery of the Future
🌐 AREONEX, GeoCruiser, CleanConnect.ai, Senergetics

Energy delivered at scale requires AI deployed at scale. That’s pragmatism meets innovation.

#ADIPEC #Energy #AI #Sustainability

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What if you could scale your security program without expanding your team?

Most companies face a painful reality: as they grow, compliance becomes a resource black hole. 

75% of executives admit their security programs are too complex, stretched thin by thousands of controls and drowning in duplication.

Continuously hiring people doesn't scale.

Here's what's really happening:

Your InfoSec teams are burning out on manual evidence collection, juggling multiple frameworks with overlapping requirements, and struggling to give executives the visibility they need to make informed decisions. Meanwhile, 30% of employees don't even understand their role in maintaining your security posture.

I recently came across Sprinto, a platform that scales compliance through automation.  Here are some highlights of their capabilities:
✅ Pre-built framework overlaps remove duplication automatically
✅ Automated control monitoring, and evidence collection
✅ Real-time dashboards that give executives and security committees visibility
✅ Step-by-step guidance that turns compliance from a burden into a
shared responsibility

When you remove duplication, automate evidence, and give everyone visibility into risks, something remarkable happens: your security program becomes a competitive advantage.

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#Cybersecurity #Compliance #InfoSec #Sprinto

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How do you find partners you can trust in #cybersecurity, #AI, and influencer marketing? 

I created these three curated directories with Clutch to help you cut through the noise:
✅ Go-To Cybersecurity Companies – Protecting your organization requires partners with proven expertise. These companies bring tested capabilities in threat prevention, security infrastructure, and risk management. Check out top 5: Sekurno | Cybersecurity, Foresite Cybersecurity Packetlabs Ltd. Software Mind and XRAY CyberSecurity https://lnkd.in/gzE4EDjc

✅ Top Innovators in AI – As AI reshapes business operations, choosing the right innovators is critical. These companies are at the forefront, helping organizations harness AI's potential while staying secure. Check out STX Next, BlueLabel, eSparkBiz, Quytech, and Neoteric
https://lnkd.in/gK5nZ_VP

✅ Influencer Marketing Agencies – Authentic engagement drives results. These agencies master the art of building genuine connections and delivering measurable brand impact. Check out top 5 Zorka.Agency | Influencer and Performance Marketing Agency, NinjaPromo: Your All-In-One Marketing Solution, PartnerCentric, Inc.,  Our Own Brand,  Fresh Content Society
https://lnkd.in/gTh8mzy9

What makes these directories different:
✅ Every company and agency featured has been vetted for performance, credibility, and consistent results. 
✅ My recommendations are backed by trust - helping you cut through the noise and make confident, informed choices.

Check out my directories and DM me if you want to add your company to those directories.

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#AI #Cybersecurity #InfluencerMarketing #ClutchDirectory

What if the future of supply chain means harmonizing humans and machines?

In my latest conversation with Richard Howells, VP of Solution Management at SAP, I asked him for a bold prediction about the future of #SupplyChain.

His answer cuts through the hype around automation and AI.
Richard envisions a supply chain where people, robotics, automation, and AI work in harmony and each leveraging their best features.
And resilience, agility, and sustainability must be built into the very DNA of your supply chain to match today's clock speed of change.

Don't forget the human.
When technology handles repetitive tasks and surfaces intelligent insights, humans are freed to focus on higher-value strategic work. The generates greater efficiency, adaptability, and responsiveness across your entire operation.

What strikes me is the beauty of SAP Business Suite that brings all the data into the mix; either structured or unstructured, enabling business decision makers to make decisions based on reliable, relevant data, making that decision responsibly.

In uncertain times, the winners won't be those who choose technology OR people. They'll be those who Pivot Fast, Run Lean, and Grow Strong by empowering both.

Ready to build a resilient, AI-powered supply chain that puts your people first?
Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gzkffikz More insights from this conversation coming soon.

#SupplyChainInnovation #FutureOfWork #AI #DigitalTransformation #SAP

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