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Sri Ambati

CEO and Founder
H2O.ai

Sri Ambati founded innovative AI cloud platform company H2O.ai in 2011 with a mission to democratize AI for everyone. He has served as CEO and a member of the board of directors since the company’s inception. H2O.ai is the trusted AI provider to over 20,000 global organizations, including AT&T, Aegon/ Transamerica, Capital One, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Hitachi, Kaiser Permanente, PayPal, pwc and Walgreens, over half of the Fortune 500 and 250,000 data scientists.  

Sri partners with business leaders and organizations across industries and the globe to use AI to solve complex business problems, help them succeed on their AI transformation journeys and improve everyday life. AI for Good initiatives to make the world a better place and Responsible AI are foundational to H2O.ai and inform every decision made at the company. As a subject matter expert, Sri is a frequent resource for the media, and has been featured in dozens of publications, including the Wall Street Journal, CNBC, IDG, and as a speaker at industry events including Ai4, Money 2020, Red Hat Summit and is a Datanami Person to Watch.  

Before founding H2O.ai, Sri cofounded big data analytics company Platfora (acquired by Workday) and was director of engineering at DataStax and Azul Systems. His academic background includes sabbaticals focused on Theoretical Neuroscience at Stanford University and U.C. Berkeley and he holds an M.S. in Math and Computer Science from the University of Memphis. 

 


About

H2O.ai

H2O.ai is an innovative AI cloud platform company, leading the mission to democratize AI for everyone. The H2O AI Hybrid Cloud simplifies and automates the creation of AI models and applications to help organizations solve complex business problems and accelerate the discovery of new ideas. H2O.ai is the trusted AI provider to over 20,000 global organizations, including AT&T, Aegon/ Transamerica, Capital One, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Hitachi, Kaiser Permanente, PayPal, pwc and Walgreens, over half of the Fortune 500 and 250,000 data scientists. Goldman Sachs, NVIDIA and Wells Fargo are among H2O.ai’s strategic investors. 

H2O.ai’scustomers have honored the company with a Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 78— the highest in the industry—made possible by its state-of-the-art technology platform and employee expertise. 20 Kaggle Grandmasters (the community of best-in-the-world machine learning practitioners and data scientists) are employees of H2O.ai.  AI for Good initiatives to make the world a better place and Responsible AI are foundational to H2O.ai and inform every decision made at the company. Please join our movement at www.H2O.ai.