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

Where the rubber meets the road with regards to growth, customer success, tech support and many other functions.  TP supplies the tech and AI-enabled consulting, process optimization and teams that help many of the Fortune 50 grow, thrive and evolve.

Chief Business Development and Customer Officer, APAC

Genesys

Genesys enables companies to deliver more than 70 billion remarkable customer experiences every year with cloud, digital and AI technologies that transform the contact center and bring Experience as a Service to life.

Senior Vice President and GM, APAC

LinkedIn

I lead LinkedIn's advertising business in Asia.  We help B2B marketers at Enterprise and mid-market companies grow their businesses by connecting with professional audiences around the world.

Director, Marketing Solutions - South East Asia, North Asia, Japan

I am privileged to lead the Account Management and Ad Operations teams for LinkedIn's Marketing Solutions business in the APAC region ensuring customer success, post-sale engagement and business growth.

Head of Ad Operations and Account Services, APAC

Tecca

Responsible for overall strategic direction, operation and growth of Tecca.com, a Best Buy, Inc.-funded startup.

Tecca is a news and information site about consumer electronics, technology and digital lifestyles for mainstream consumers.  We help "non-techie" consumers manage their tech-enabled lives with articles, videos, tips and tricks and how-tos on Tecca.com and across our large network of syndication partners including Yahoo, USA Today, MSNBC, Best Buy and many more.  We enable advertisers reach a key audience of purchase-intenders with traditional and innovative ad units, video products, custom content and sponsored content opportunities.

VP, Business Development and Operations

Sony Pictures International TV

* Oversaw distribution of Sony's International Cable Network brands and programs to regional wireless carriers mobile TV platforms
* Managed production and distribution of original web series and other programming for International Networks websites
* Developed and deployed ad-supported online content destinations in new markets

VP - Mobile Programming & Digital Product Development

Metro Crepes

Launched a Crepe concept in SF.  Started in Farmer's Markets.  It worked! People liked it!  Moved into retail spaces eventually growing to three units in SF and Oakland.

Founder / CEO

MobiTV

*Led MobiTV's Latin America business
*Negotiated contract with America Movil, Latin America's largest carrier group, and oversaw deployments of live mobile TV service with portfolio carriers Telcel Mexico, Claro Brazil and CTI Argentina
*Worked with Nokia, Motorola, Samsung and major handset manufacturers to increase penetration of MobiTV service across the region

Director, Business Development

The Industry Standard

Launched local-language editions of The Industry Standard around the world.  Europe, Asia, Latin America

Director, International Development

Arome Publishing / GourmetMarket.com

First full-time hire of Israeli startup in US.  Helped launch the business in the US market overseeing all aspects of establishing a US presence and growing the business.  Transitioned from packaged software products (CD-ROMs with retail distribution) to e-commerce model because there was this new thing called the Internet.

Director, Business Development and US Operations

High-Capacity Business Leader |  Difference Maker |  Bridge Builder |   Opportunity Grower |  Teacher |  Mentor | Student  

I am an experienced general manager, sales leader, operations and customer success executive with experience working in the US, Latin America, Europe and Asia.   Most of my career has been spent on the commercial side of tech-enabled transformative businesses in mobile, internet, software and content.  I'm a former two time CEO (once of a venture-backed media company in LA and once of my own restaurant business in San Francisco) and very experienced in global expansion and building high-performance commercial teams within the context of fast growing tech MNCs.

Jobs I'd have loved (and possibly been good at in an alternative universe):  Diplomacy, stand-up comedy, professional basketball.  Now I aspire to scratch golf, too.

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