What I stand for

01

AI governance is not a compliance checkbox — it's your fastest path to board-level confidence.

From brake to accelerator: I build responsible AI frameworks that let leadership move faster because the risk envelope is clear, defensible, and already regulator-tested.

Banks, insurers, PE-backed platforms
02

If your CFO can't measure AI ROI, your AI strategy doesn't exist yet.

Tie every AI dollar to the P&L — with investment theses, unit economics, and post-deployment measurement that finance teams can stand behind.

CFOs, finance committees, boards
03

The hardest part of enterprise AI isn't the technology. It's building the organization that can absorb it.

I've scaled AI teams from 15 to 300+. The bottleneck is never compute or models — it's literacy, incentives, and operating structure. I build the scaffolding that makes adoption inevitable.

04

In regulated industries, the gap between a demo and production is where most AI programs die.

I've seen where AI programs typically stall between pilot and production in financial services — and I know how to close that gap under ERISA, SOX, HIPAA, and fair lending.

Career

Two decades building and governing AI in regulated financial services — from enterprise advisory to leading AI at a major credit union.

Feb 2026 – Present

Vice President, AI

Hudson Valley Credit Union · New York

Lead enterprise AI strategy, agentic AI deployment, and model risk governance for one of the Northeast's leading credit unions.

Jun 2025 – Jan 2026

Author & AI Consultant

Infinidatum · Remote

AI transformation consulting for growth-stage companies and authored two books on causal inference and AI in financial services.

Mar 2023 – Jun 2025

Assistant Vice President, AI/ML

Voya Financial · Remote

Drove enterprise AI/ML transformation — production GenAI, model risk, and MLOps at scale.

Jun 2019 – Mar 2023

Director, Enterprise Data Engineering & Analytics

Voya Financial · Remote

Built and led enterprise data engineering and analytics powering the firm's AI and reporting platforms.

May 2018 – Jul 2019

Senior Manager, Enterprise Advisory & AI/ML Leadership

Accenture · AI

Led enterprise advisory and AI/ML delivery for clients across financial services.

Education PhD Researcher, Computer & Information Sciences — University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Published Works

Causal Inference for Machine Learning Engineers book cover
Springer January 2026

Causal Inference for Machine Learning Engineers: A Practical Guide

  • For: ML engineers and data scientists in financial services
  • You'll get: Practical DAGs, propensity score recipes, and examples that plug into deep learning workflows
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The AI Inflection Point book cover
Infinidatum Press November 2025

The AI Inflection Point: How AI Is Transforming Financial Services

  • For: C-suite leaders, AI program managers in financial services
  • You'll get: 7 real-world case studies (Ramp, Nubank, RBC, Stripe), a 90-day pilot plan, and ROI worksheets grounded in real numbers
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Research & Preprints

Peer-reviewed and preprint work at the intersection of causal ML, fairness, and large-scale data systems in financial services.

01
cs.LG March 2026

Decomposing Discrimination: Causal Mediation Analysis for AI-Driven Credit Decisions

Develops a doubly-robust estimator applied to ~90,000 mortgage applications, revealing that 77% of the racial denial gap operates through financial mediators shaped by structural inequality.

Read on arXiv
02
cs.CL October 2024

Improving Legal Entity Recognition Using a Hybrid Transformer Model and Semantic Filtering Approach

Hybrid model enhancing Legal-BERT through semantic similarity filtering. Achieves 93.4% F1 on 15,000 annotated legal documents.

Read on arXiv
03
cs.DC October 2024

Enhancing Real-Time Master Data Management with Complex Match and Merge Algorithms

Novel MDM algorithm achieving 90% accuracy on 10M+ records with 30% latency improvement, using PySpark and Databricks with Delta Lake.

Read on arXiv

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