Anna Litvak-Hinenzon, PhD

Georgetown University

Developing curriculum and teaching AI product and solution development and management at the GU SCS AI Management online Master's program.

Adjunct Professor and AI SME

al-tech.ai

AI Strategy and Training for organizations, including:
- AI Readiness Audit
- AI Implementation at scale
- AI Product development and management

- AI Training & Teaching for Leaders & Executives
- Field CTO/CPO and AI Advisory Services Delivery
- Keynote Speaking on AI Evolution, Strategy, and Implementation

Chief AI Product Strategist

Harvard Business Review

HBR Advisory Council Member.
As a member of this research community, I provide insight to shape the content that HBR develops and enrich the understanding, perspectives, and ideas on leadership and management, particularly in the spaces of Technology, Product, and AI.

Advisory Council Member

Hyphenate

Hyphenate is an AI startup providing groundbreaking software for generating proposals, SOWs, RFPs, and solutions of outstanding quality super-fast. Check it out!

Board Director

Chief

Chief is a private network built to drive more women into positions of power and keep them there. Chief is the only organization specifically designed for senior women leaders to strengthen their leadership journey, cross-pollinate ideas across industries, and effect change from the top-down.

Founding Member

Pavilion

Executive Member

AI Accelerator Institute

Connecting and empowering passionate AI infrastructure innovators. Keynote speaking about AI strategy, challenges, and implementation. Boston Chief AI Officer Summit and Generative AI Summit Chairperson and Moderator. 

Skills: Thought Leadership · Large Language Models (LLM) · Content Creation · AI Thought Leadership · Artificial Intelligence (AI) · Generative AI · Communication · Machine Learning · Public Speaking

Pro Member

Thomas & Taylor Search Partners

Executive Search as an Unlimited Partnership with No Client Risk.

Over 40 years of combined experience in placing Top-Tier Executives, CEO, CxO, President, VP, GM, and Board roles in the Innovative Technology markets. TTSP, as a Boutique Executive Search firm, consistently ranks among the Top 3, specializing in PE/VC Customized Talent Strategy, with a commitment that revolves around delivering a Precise Talent Match for client’s organizational challenges.

TTPS uses cutting-edge innovative AI technologies, transparent data, and machine learning to identify and place top-performing leaders for executive-level positions with an average time to fill under 60 days.

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Advisory Board Member

The RepTrak Company

Lead an organization with 2 departments of 50+ to deliver client-centric AI products. Manage P&L and multi-million annual budget. Own vision, strategy, execution, and deployment of data & AI products and solutions for a SaaS Platform. Direct conceptualization and design prototypes, AI/ML engineering, analytics, UX/UI, and product lifecycle management (PLM) from vision to launch. Drive product innovation and go-to-market (GTM) strategy. Execute and deliver innovative AI-powered products using agile methodologies with over 45% efficiency increase and 70% cost reduction.

EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP:  Member of executive leadership team. Report to CEO. Manage P&L. Work with executive leadership to define company strategy, product goals, and annual budget. Craft roadmaps & positioning. Present to the Board regularly.

TEAM LEADERSHIP: Hire, mentor, and motivate top talent across two departments with up to 50 results-oriented employees and consultants. 

PRODUCT LEADERSHIP: Lead innovative AI products & solutions featuring Generative AI (GenAI), Large Language Models (LLM), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Deep Learning to disrupt the industry with cutting-edge innovation. Utilize a revolutionary leadership strategy to accelerate the prototype to launch timeline. Implement metrics-driven product delivery with KPIs & OKRs.

BUSINESS STRATEGY:  Collaborate with the executive team on defining corporate strategies. Lead digital transformation and change management. Instrumental in delivering 15% YoY revenue growth, 30% valuation increase, and growing EBITDA to positive.

AI/DATA/TECH/PRODUCT ROADMAPS:  Create roadmaps for data & AI products and platforms, client offerings, automation, AI/ML engineering, MLOps, and lead agile product development, positioning, GTM strategies, and feature releases.

RepTrak is the industry leader in reputation intelligence, ESG perception decisions, and brand-reputability-driven management of business outcomes strategy.

Senior Vice President (SVP), Global Data & AI Product

Head of Global Data Science across six offices around the world, headquartered in Boston. 
We are proving with data that doing and saying the right thing is good business. 
Good business. Better world.

Build a new Data Scince department from the ground up by centralizing, globalizing and hiring top Data Science, Analytics, and ML/AI engineering talent. Lead digital transformation to transform the company from services to SaaS/DaaS. Launch data platform.

MANDATED DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION:  Led digital transformation, globalization, and change management. Successfully moved company from professional services to SaaS/DaaS tech and services. 

DATA PLATFORM LAUNCH:  In 5 months, co-led launch of SaaS/DaaS platform integral to Board-mandated digital transformation. Designed and launched a data & insights platform with monthly releases of new and innovative features.

PRODUCT LEADERSHIP:  Drove the creation of products, solutions, and metrics (KPIs & OKRs) to provide innovative thought leadership for customer-facing product development.

VENDOR MANAGEMENT:  Negotiated contracts significantly reducing annual costs and overheads.

USA & EUROPEAN PATENTS:  Worked with a patent lawyer to write/submit/defend 5 patents in the US and Europe.

VP, Global Data Science

Tessella

Led client partnerships, teams, and award-winning Analytics and AI projects ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars, across various industries including Consumer Goods, Healthcare, Pharma, and Energy.

Owned strategic client relationships with F500 companies. Directed up to 30 direct/project reports across 15 projects. Led client Digital Transformation strategy, and Analytics and AI/ML projects and product prototyping. Managed client expectations, project budgets, solution design, and development. 

BUSINESS STRATEGY: Partnered with Sales & Account Management to engage F500 clients in partnerships of Digital Transformation and Data Science projects for developing innovative AI products. Crucial to yearly analytics partnerships revenue growth of over 20%.

CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT:  Met with client sr. tech and business management. Gathered requirements, presented proposals, demos, and concepts, and gained client approvals. Transitioned key clients to long-term $Multi-Million partnerships.

PRODUCTS & PROTOTYPES:  Partnered with client teams to build AI solutions and develop prototypes and data products. Strategized project scopes, budgets, and timelines with client sr. leadership. Led internal and joint efforts to deliver market-new products. Main examples include: Poultry feed prediction with AI; Tumor shrinkage digital studies powered by machine learning; Inter-drug interaction prediction with ML/AI; App to detect underwater oil pipe damages from video with deep learning; AI product to detect social behavior improvements resulting from a medication; Wearables data app to detect efficacy of skin remedy with AI/ML.

Sr Director, US, Data Science Partnerships (Field CTO)

As an AI product & technology executive recognized for visionary solutions across industries, my mission is to evangelize data and AI usefulness to companies and clients by articulating the underlying business value and making the prototype-to-product journey seamless and scalable. 

I bring a unique combination of product, technology & AI expertise, executive leadership, and organizational change management through digital transformation & leading teams. 

My passion is building top-talent teams, excellence centers, and products from the ground up. My superpower is the ability to develop vision and strategy, followed by leading the execution of innovative, market-new data science & AI/ML-powered products. 

My strong technical background, combined with PLM strategy and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, enables me to envision the value, identify the possible, and direct agile development, GTM preparation, and launches. My greatest joy has been launching and growing results-oriented departments. I had the privilege of establishing analytics business units, centralizing data scientists and product/project managers, and, through strategic hiring of top data science and ML/AI engineering talent, launching a new department with 40+ members within 12 months. I am proud of facilitating the development of a collaborative and inclusive culture focused on mentoring and internal promotions with a commitment to DEI, which helped achieve retention of +95%.

Executives at multiple companies value my ability to lead operational and digital transformations. I drive companies to gain maximum business value from enterprise data assets by envisioning, designing, and executing data platforms and AI/ML-powered products. My teams provide top value by architecting solutions across data science, engineering, machine learning, automation, governance, agile SDLC, PLM, and deployment. My insights are crucial to building innovative software products powered by AI and training customer-facing teams on presenting these to markets.

In addition, I initiate and drive efforts to improve vendor management, product and service margins, and intellectual property (IP) portfolios. I identify and negotiate with vendors to improve data quality and reduce costs and overheads. As an inventor of 11 patents, my work has been instrumental in building IP portfolios. 

I am a speaker & panelist on AI products and women in Tech at conferences, and I am a Boston founding member of Chief. My volunteering corporate contributions include Board membership, mentorship, and leadership on DEI across companies.

I have a new Certificate 🎉 

I've completed the Finance for Non-Finance Executives course of Wharton Executive Education.

It is my pleasure to thank Chief for providing this learning opportunity!

Chief Product Officer | Chief AI Officer | I help B2B SaaS companies launch products that customers can't live without by unifying product, technology, and AI strategy

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