Experience

Fifteen years across process engineering, product marketing, product leadership, and founding.

Founder & CEO

2024 – Present

AINovva

Founded and bootstrapped a neurosymbolic AI knowledge layer that maps relationships across Slack, email, Drive, Salesforce, and Jira, and built Attentional, an AI inbox assistant. Sole owner of product, architecture, and go-to-market, with GDPR/HIPAA/SOC2-minded design. Also building an insurance intake platform with an image review pipeline.

Context LayersEnterprise AIGDPR/CCPA/SOC2

Principal / Fractional CTO

2024 – Present

Luisa Herrmann Consulting

Fractional CTO and AI strategy work for startups and mid-sized companies, including an end-to-end OCR pipeline extracting structured data from scanned medical documents. This work funds AINovva.

AI StrategyOCR PipelinesArchitecture

Primary Mentor

2024 – 2025

C10 Labs

Mentored early-stage startups on AI product and technical strategies.

MentorshipEarly StageAI Startups

Guest Lecturer

2025

Harvard Medical School

Taught Python visualizations for genomic analytics—bridging ML/AI with health research and responsible AI practices in sensitive, longitudinal data environments.

GenomicsHIPAAPython

Head of Product

2022 – 2024

Arch Systems

First Product hire. Built the product team and a unified roadmap that turned disparate offerings into the ArchFX platform. Secured and expanded Plexus Corp and Harman deployments, and built one of the industry's largest SMT machine connector libraries. Contributed to 100% revenue growth as manufacturers achieved 20–40% machine utilization improvements.

Industry 4.0IoT AnalyticsRevenue Growth

Head of Product

2021 – 2022

Cape Privacy

Took the company's first commercial product from research to market launch in under 18 months: privacy-preserving machine learning built on secure multiparty computation for financial services and healthcare, enabling machine learning on sensitive data without exposing it.

Privacy-Preserving MLSMPCFinance

Head of Product

2020 – 2021

expert.ai

Established the company's first product function. Led the launch of a self-serve Natural Language API that opened a new revenue segment, and introduced CI/CD and two-week sprints to an engineering organization running quarterly waterfall planning. Built frameworks for explaining AI model decisions to non-technical stakeholders in regulatory review contexts.

NLPExplainable AIEnterprise

Senior PM → Director of Product Management

2019 – 2020

Validity Inc.

Promoted to manage the entire Validity for Data Management product portfolio including DemandTools (tens of thousands of users, millions in ARR), Validity Trust Assessments, and online stores. Oversaw design and launch of an online marketplace for DemandTools—profitable within two months of launch.

Product PortfolioCRM DataSaaS

Product Manager → Manager, Product Management

2016 – 2019

ZoomInfo

Rebuilt the product function from scratch into a team of seven, hiring and managing PMs in the US and Israel. Led ZoomInfo 2.0 from scoping to launch and shipped predictive analytics and AI-powered features, through growth from $15M to $100M+ ARR and the 2019 acquisition by DiscoverOrg.

B2B DataPlatform LaunchM&A

Product Marketing Manager / Product Manager

2015 – 2016

EnerNOC

Transitioned from Product Marketing into Product Management. Scoped and positioned a new product offering; launched cross-functional release processes across East and West Coast teams.

Energy TechProduct MarketingCross-functional

Product Marketing Manager

2014 – 2015

Oasys Water

Product marketing for forward osmosis technology—sustainable solutions for transforming difficult water sources into valuable resources.

CleanTechWater Technology

Product Marketing Professional

2013 – 2014

Aspen Technology

Product marketing for industrial simulation software including Aspen HYSYS Petroleum Refining and Acid Gas Cleaning modeling tools.

Industrial SoftwareChemical Engineering

Industrial Marketing Specialist

2011 – 2013

ITW Performance Polymers

Industrial marketing for performance polymer products across manufacturing and industrial sectors.

ManufacturingIndustrial Marketing

Chemical Process Engineer

2010 – 2011

ITW Permatex

Chemical process engineering—the foundation of a career spanning process engineering, product marketing, and AI product leadership.

Chemical EngineeringProcess Engineering