Our Executive Team
Pete Smith
Pete has 30 years experience in high tech sales, sales management and consulting. He spent the first half of his career at Fortune 500 tech companies including Teradata, where he transitioned from sales to professional services and developed a methodology that was cited by Gartner Group as their rationale for Teradata’s Leadership designation in the technology consulting Magic Quadrant. The second half of Pete’s career was devoted to start-ups focused on Machine Learning, Big Data Analytics, and High Performance Data Platforms in both sales and sales management roles.
Chief Executive Officer
Carl Reed
Carl was a Technology Managing Director and CTO at Goldman Sachs, and the initial recipient of the Technical Fellow designation. After Goldman, Carl was a Managing Director, Technology at Credit Suisse successfully building a new cross bank Big Data and Semantic Technology function. After CS, Carl was the Global Product Head for Bloomberg’s Data License Business in their $1.3B Enterprise Data Division.
Carl is a leader focused of delivering some of the most advanced technology innovations of the last 25 years in the Wall Street sector. He is as broad as he is deep in his ability to see the potential of technologies to transform the way businesses create and deliver value.
Chief Technology Officer
Chief Strategy OfficerMichael Fauscette
Michael is a high-tech leader, board member, software industry analyst, author and podcast host. He is a thought leader and published author on emerging trends in business software, AI, generative AI, agentic AI, digital transformation, and customer experience. Michael is a Thinkers360 Top Voice 2023, 2024 and 2025, and Ambassador for Agentic AI, as well as a Top Ten Thought Leader in Agentic AI, Generative AI, AI Infrastructure, AI Ethics, AI Governance, AI Orchestration, CRM, Product Management, and Design.
Michael is the Founder, CEO & Chief Analyst at Arion Research, a global AI and cloud advisory firm; advisor to G2 and 180Ops, Board Chair at LocatorX; and board member and Fractional Chief Strategy Officer at SpotLogic. Formerly Michael was the Chief Research Officer at unicorn startup G2. Prior to G2, Michael led IDC’s worldwide enterprise software application research group for almost ten years. An ex-US Naval Officer, he held executive roles with 9 software companies including Autodesk and PeopleSoft; and 6 technology startups.
Our Advisory Team
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Peter Nabicht
COO, Hive Trading
Former President, STAC: Securities Technology Analysis Center and Former CTO, Allston Trading -
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Jeffrey Davitz
Consultant, Lingonautics
Former CEO, Founder, Reperio.ai -
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Carson Kahn
Agent Development Lifecycle Leader, Salesforce
AI/ML leader @ Salesforce, ex-Founder @ Spindle AI (acquired by Salesforce) || Computer Scientist || Goldman Sachs Top 100 Innovators -
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Bob Cramer
CEO Coach, Advisor, Board Member and Investor, Cramer Advisory Group
Serial Entrepreneur and Former Executive (CRM) at Oracle, Former CEO at FirstSense (Acquired by Concord Communications), LiveVault (Acquired by Iron Mountain, CloudPath, and Nimbit. -
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Jody Spencer
CMO, LocatorX
2X CMO with over 25 years of experience spanning Fortune 500, SMB and start-ups.
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John "Morgan" Slade
CEO, Exponential Technology Inc.
Former Head of Global Systematic Trading, Former Head of US Cash Equity Trading & Research Team, Global Head of Equity Trading at Allston Trading,
