Kripa Rajshekhar
Primary inventor & system architect
26 years in AI, consulting, and strategic sales · Founded and sold Metonymize · 12 years M&A advisory at KPMG and EY
Graduate research at RPI in Computer Vision in 1999. Co-founded EY's Corporate Finance Strategy practice, scaling it from 4 to 100+ professionals and leading 150+ M&A and diligence projects. Founded Metonymize in 2014, grew bookings to ~$5M over 18 months, and led its sale to Straive. Architected the compiled merchant RunTime, request pipeline, and causal audit log.
Deb Henretta
Merchant operations & e-commerce strategy
Former Global President of e-business, Procter & Gamble · Fortune "50 Most Powerful Women in Business" seven straight years
Boards: Corning, Meritage Homes, S.C. Johnson; past Chair, APEC Business Council. Informed the policy guards and merchant trust model.
Wlodek Zadrozny, PhD
NLP system architecture
27 years at IBM T.J. Watson Research · 70+ papers · 50+ patents · AAAI Feigenbaum Prize
Professor of Computer Science, UNC Charlotte; previously led textual resources for the IBM Watson Jeopardy! team. Designed core intent-classification and semantic-compilation capabilities.
Sriharsha Veeramachaneni
Machine learning system design
1,500+ research citations · Statistical learning · Information extraction
Machine-learning researcher specializing in statistical learning, semi-supervised classification, NER, and information extraction. Designed compiled classifiers, confidence calibration, and escalation-driven learning.
Dan Stowell
Build systems & compilation architecture
Director of Engineering, Vercel · Head of Engineering, Replit · Principal Engineer, Spotify
Engineer at BuildBuddy. Designed the compilation pipeline, workflow registry, and the LLM-as-compiler execution model.
Brad Kuntz
Transaction advisory & capital strategy
25+ years · Strategy · M&A transaction advisory · Investment management
Former hedge fund manager with experience spanning strategy consulting, transaction advisory, and capital allocation. Designed transaction-advisory classification methodology and PE diligence use cases.
Brian Stevens
Technical accounting & capital markets
Technical accounting · Transaction advisory · ASC 350-40 / FASB ASU 2025-06
Advises enterprises on complex accounting judgments and financial reporting. Designed the capitalization framework, audit-ready evidence package, and rules engine.
