Introduction and guest

0:00 Uh, it is a great pleasure to have you uh on the show. um just before you return to the Silicon Valley for your next big chapter um in life. Um but what we want to talk about today is is chapters that have gone before um and you know all of your experience and everything that that has gone there. And so we know you were one of the early pioneers uh with AI training and adoption having really founded um HSBC's um office of applied AI.

0:48 Um, and so to begin with, we just want to get a sense of who you are, your background, um, really how how you got to this point and how you got into AI in the first place because it's not actually a very natural path that everybody finds themselves in. And so, um, let's let's begin there, right? Well, thank you for having me. Um, I really appreciate it. Very grateful for the opportunity. First and got to do the the gratuitous but necessary disclosure.

1:11 Um, everything I say is, you know, my personal view, certainly not representative of any of my, uh, former employers and certainly not the, uh, the soon to be announced, you know, future employer. Um, but really it's kind of, you know, I guess some observations and and great learnings, you know, of things that have gone well and gone not so well, you know, over, I guess, now a two decade plus career. Um, so I'm happy to kind of share that with you and ultimately hopefully that will uh, you know, create some some great value um, for both, you know, you guys and ultimately your your customers and people listening today.

1:35 Okay. Um, so in in