Phillip Finucane is a high-impact engineering leader with deep understanding of the value of best-in-class technology as it relates to enabling business success. He brings extensive experience optimizing technology strategy for some of the world’s most progressive tech companies across sectors, including finance, healthcare, social media, and gaming. A trusted business partner, he provides big picture business acumen and a strong background in engineering modernization, product strategy, risk management, Big Data and AI, cost management, cybersecurity, and acquisitions and integrations. He has been trusted repeatedly throughout his career to drive major transformation endeavors and culture shifts that support growth, enhance operating efficiency, and transform low-performing engineering teams into fast-moving, highly effective business drivers. Phil builds an empowering and rewarding working environment with consistently increasing engagement and enablement scores, and places high value on ingenuity and diversity of thought. Phil is the ex-CEO of Pat Inc, an early stage startup developing a symbolic AI engine for natural language understanding. Before this, Phil was with Meta as Senior AI Production Engineering Leader managing teams focused on improving reliability, scalability, and efficiency of Meta’s massive AI/Machine Learning ecosystem. During his tenure, Phil drove componentization of a monolithic machine learning stack to enable better observability and efficiency for 20K+ training jobs and reducing job failure rates by more than 10%. He was also credited with decreasing the time for code to move from authoring to production by 50% and articulating a vision for the next iteration of Meta’s AI stack. Prior to Meta, Phil had roles as VP of Engineering at Northwestern Mutual, CTO at Express Scripts, and Divisional Chief Architect at American Express. Early career was based in Silicon Valley where he worked at Zynga, Yahoo!, and a number of startups.

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