Jim is founder and managing partner of Foundry.ai, an artificial intelligence technology studio. He was founder, CEO and Chairman of Applied Predictive Technologies (APT), which became the world’s largest cloud-based AI software company, and was sold to MasterCard in 2015. Previously, Jim worked at AT&T Laboratories, and as a corporate strategy consultant. Jim is the author of several software patents, as well as the 2012 book Uncontrolled, which has been widely reviewed in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and other national publications. Jim received a B.S. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was subsequently awarded a Dean’s Fellowship in statistics from the doctoral program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.