Mark DeSantis

Mark is CEO and cofounder of Musing AI, a socially aware and emotionally intelligent collaborator. Previously, he was cofounder and CEO of Bloomfield (acquired by Kubota Corporation), which uses AI to help specialty crop growers improve yields across the US, EU, Africa, and South America. Prior to that, he was cofounder and CEO of RoadBotics (acquired by Michelin), which used AI to assess roadway infrastructure across seven countries. Earlier, he was a cofounder and executive chairman of kWantix Trading LLC (acquired by Moody Aldrich Partners), a quant energy hedge fund, and cofounder and CEO of kWantera, an energy trading company, both of which use deep learning technology. Mark was also CEO of Think Through Learning (acquired by Imagine Learning), an online tutoring company.

Earlier in his career, Mark was the director of government relations for Texas Instruments and held policy positions in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in the administration of George H. W. Bush and served on the staff of US Senator John Heinz and US Representative Michael DeWine. Earlier he was a management consultant with Booz Allen.

Mark is an adviser to several AI and robotics companies as well as Cybernetix Ventures, L.E.K. Consulting, and Cascadia Capital and an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University. He has an MS from the American University, a PhD in public policy from the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, and a doctorate in business administration from the Fox School of Business at Temple University. Mark also completed the AI Academy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the venture capital session at Wharton, and a marketing session at the Kellogg School of Management.

He is the coauthor of a soon-to-be-published book (Taylor & Francis) with Anand Rao, PhD, Professor of Applied Data Science and AI, Carnegie Mellon University, “The Real AI: Creating Infrastructure & Cognitive Capital to do Real Work.”

Substack: https://mdesantis1.substack.com/
Soon-to-be-released book: https://the-real-ai.vercel.app/