James Raybould

I've recently joined Turing, an AGI infrastructure company, to lead our Turing Intelligence business, building powerful AI systems to answer the question, "How will AI transform my business?" We combine expert human and artificial capabilities to accelerate companies.

I'm a Generalist. After Consulting at Bain pre- and post-HBS, I joined LinkedIn in early 2010 and spent 12+ years moving across functions and leadership roles: I started in Sales Strategy and Analytics before moving to Marketing, Product Management, and, finally, General Management. I then moved to fractional exec roles at Speak, WisdomAI, and StealthAICo, blending product, GTM, and GM skills; I like breadth above all. 

To tell my longer story, 3 dates from 3 decades help:

Sept. 22, 1995: I travelled 5,000 miles from my London hometown to Stanford. I was drawn to studies, sports, sunshine, and a Bay Area culture more focused on creating the future than curating the past. I rowed on the Stanford Varsity Crew team and studied psychology for my B.A. and M.A. And I've stayed close: I can see the Stanford campus from our backyard.

Sept. 13, 2004: I joined Bain Bay Area as an entry-level Consultant. After a few years of racing triathlon and working in sports business, I was drawn to Bain’s entrepreneurial culture and fast-paced learning environment. Looking back, my strategy and comms chops were forged at Bain, as was a lifelong love of Excel, PowerPoint, and Cinnabon.  

March 8, 2010: I left Bain to join a pre-IPO LinkedIn with ~500 employees and ~$100M in revenue. I discovered a vision that deeply resonated - to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce - and, second, a set of inspiring leaders teaching me how a culture and values focus could underpin incredible businesses. Over the next 12.5 years, my roles and responsibilities varied: in function from sales strategy, analytics & insights to marketing to product to GMing; in scope from being an IC to leading ~100 person teams; and in scale from helping run our largest, multi-billion dollar recruiting business to jumping in to help lead our acquisitions of Lynda.com (2015) and Glint (2018). 

Outside of work, I'm a long-term elite endurance athlete (rowing > Ironman > marathons > bike racing > marathon swimming) and compulsive reader and film-goer. Here's ALL my books & films (bit.ly/z2D1sX) and I publish a "What's the So What?" newsletter distilling favourite books and experiences into what matters most (bit.ly/3q188jL)

Founding Member & Advisor

I’m excited to be a founding member of Round, a newly launched community for tech’s most thoughtful leaders. Since joining I've benefited in a major way from small "core group" meetings, special events with luminaries, connections with other tech leaders, and more. Starting in early 2023 I've also begun to help the Round leadership with a range of projects to help them grow their impact.

There are two kinds of execs in 2026: Those building with AI. And those reading about it.

Your employees know which camp you're in. They see you share AI articles while your workflows stay frozen. They hear you say "use AI more" while you're copy-pasting into ChatGPT or Copilot like it's 2023.

You can't lead what you don't use. With AI, that's doubly true.

This is the first in my "AI for Execs" series on how I use AI day-to-day. Real use cases for leaders ready to build, not just talk. 

I've started the series with a simple use case: keeping up with daily newsletters. 

Pre-AI, I read maybe 2 out of 20. The rest became guilt-inducing clutter.

Post-AI, a relay.app agent reads them all, extracts what matters, sends me a daily digest, and archives everything.

Built in under an hour. Zero coding required.

I've curated my Spotify podcasts and YouTube videos the same way.

Step-by-step guide in the full article.

The execs who thrive won't be the ones who only read posts like this. They'll be the ones who #JFDI.

#AIForExecs

At Bain, I noticed a pattern that is now playing out with executives using AI: senior partners hired directly from industry — who hadn't worked their 

Open article: AI For Execs #1: Just Do It Yourself by James Raybould • 6 min read

The most interesting new person I met in 2025 was John Winsor: he and I had fun on this podcast episode digging into the future of work, with more than a little AI sprinkled in

The first Transform Work episode of 2026 is live!

John Winsor sits down with James Raybould, SVP at Turing, to explore how organizations move from talking about AI to actually putting it to work.

The conversation covers enterprise adoption, agents, humans-in-the-loop, and why mindset matters more than tools right now.

Listen here: https://lnkd.in/g-y8JSJm

GitHub

Fortunate to lead GitHub’s GTM Enablement function as a strategic partner to Sales, Product, Marketing, GTM Strategy, and Microsoft, turning strategy into action for our global revenue teams. We deliver scalable programs that drive clarity, consistency, and execution.

Our focus is on building product fluency, competitive insight, and field confidence, while solving for planning, visibility, and operational rigor. From onboarding to product launches to co-sell motions, we move enablement from reactive to intentional.

Additionally, we oversee partner enablement strategies to Microsoft, ensuring alignment and collaboration to maximize market influence.

Director, GTM Enablement

Relativity

-Joined Relativity to establish and expand the Sales Enablement function. Built an international team of GTM Enablement and Sales Performance Consultants to shape and drive our sales strategies, processes, planning, and enablement for GTM & Sales specific initiatives. 

-Advisor: Relativity Justice for Change Program - Our mission is to empower the Relativity community to tackle social and racial justice issues by providing technology needed to Organize Data, Discover the Truth, and Act on It.

Head of Sales Enablement

LinkedIn

-LinkedIn's Sales Enablement team focused on creating and executing world class sales enablement strategies and programs using innovative training, reinforcement, change management, and measurement methodologies. I partnered with global Marketing, Product, Business Operations and Sales Leaders to find opportunities within the business and recommend creative ways to drive success.

Sr Global Sales Performance Consultant - Sales Solutions

Global Sales Performance Consultant - Sales Solutions

-Top performing Relationship Manager in 2017
-2017 member of LinkedIn's InDay committee member: Once a month, we set aside a Friday for employees to focus on investing in themselves and their community. It’s a day to spend time outside their daily task list and is essential to LinkedIns culture.

Relationship Manager, Mid-Market - Sales Solutions

-2016 Presidents Club qualifier finishing as the top SMB Relationship Manager in North America
-Selected for LinkedIn Sales Solutions Emerging Leader Program

Relationship Manager, Small Medium Business - Sales Solutions

Customer Success Specialist, Small Business Segment - Talent Solutions

Sales Development, Enterprise - Talent Solutions

Windstream Communications

-Generated new business opportunities through outside sales activities, focused on selling solution data, voice, network and cloud services to businesses.

Account Executive

Lexmark

-Second largest territory in North America. Within first year overall territory ranking went from 27th to 17th, revenue increased 3% and average sale price climbed 15% compared to 2010.

District Sales Manager - Tampa/Orlando

-While in St Louis territory hardware sales increased 26% YOY, revenue 56% YOY and average sale price 24% YOY.  In 2010 St Louis generated over $1.1M in revenue exceeding the territory goal.

District Sales Manager

Passionate about building high performing teams, optimizing organizations and empowering people to maximize their potential.

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