About GAI Insights
About GAI Insights
GAI Insights is the premier source of GenAI news, research, and learning communities for companies and AI vendors.
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Our Team

Paul Baier
CEO, Co-founder and Principal Analyst

Dr. John J. Sviokla
Chairman and Co-founder
Dr. Sviokla is the chairman and co-founder of GAI Insights. Throughout his career he has explored the practical implications of leading technologies. He is widely published and was a Partner at PwC, Vice Chairman of Diamond Technology Partners, and a Harvard Business School Professor, where he pioneered AI research and AI courses. Dr. Sviokla has his Doctorate, Master's, and BA from Harvard University. He was named a Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School to develop cases for the MBA and Executive Ed programs and is a Forbes contributor.

Echo
AI Analyst
Echo is the world's first AI-based, AI analyst. She is one of a dozen AI co-workers at GAI Insights. She was the first AI co host of an event at the Generative AI World 2023 conference. Watch her welcome video here. As an AI Analyst, she and her AI colleagues are integral co-workers for research, delivery, marketing and sales.
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Adam Rappaport
Co-Founder and AI Analyst
Adam is an enterprise AI sales specialist by day and AI Analyst by night, but a tech wizard all the time. He is an integral part of building our AI Research Factory - scaling curated insights for enterprise. Catch him on our Daily AI News Briefing, in person at our annual GAI World conference, sharing his Adam's AI Adventures (AAA) at our weekly Learning Lab.

Tim Andrews
AI Analyst
Tim is a AI Analyst at GAI Insights. He is a luminary in innovative technology. Tim's past work includes a VP position at Booz Allen Hamilton, CTO at Viant Corp., and early software contributions to the Apple Macintosh. He holds an MSEE/CS from Worcester Polytechnic and a BA from Dartmouth.

Luda Kopeikina
AI Analyst
An AI expert, Luda previously was a Corporate Executive at GE and a strategic advisor to boards and CEOs of many companies. She has served on boards of 12 high-tech private and public companies. She completed her PhD in CS/AI at St. Petersburg University and an MBA at MIT Sloan as a Sloan Fellow.

Julio Barros
AI Analyst
Julio is an AI Analyst at GAI Insights. He is the founder of E-String Technologies, a cutting-edge AI consultancy. He holds a Master's from the University of Virginia and a BS from George Mason University.

Amanda Fetch
AI Analyst
Amanda is an AI Analyst at GAI Insights. She has two decades of experience in analytics, data science, AI/ML, and her work spans academia and corporate sectors. She is completing a PhD dissertation related to AI.
Our Advisors

Randy Bean
Strategic Advisor
Randy Bean has been an advisor to Fortune 1000 organizations on data and AI leadership for nearly 4 decades. He is a Senior Advisor, Author, Speaker, Founder, CEO, and Innovation Fellow in the field of data & AI-driven business leadership. Randy is the author of the bestselling Fail Fast, Learn Faster: Lessons in Data-Driven Leadership in an Age of Disruption, Big Data, and AI. Bean is a current contributor to Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and MIT Sloan Management Review. He was previously founder and CEO of NewVantage Partners.

John Werner
Strategic Advisor
John Werner is a Managing Director at Link Ventures and a Forbes columnist. He is also founder of Imagination in Action, a non-profit which hosts conferences at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Silicon Valley, and at MIT. John co-founded TEDxMIT and produces TEDxBoston. His curated events have accumulated 300+ million YouTube views. Previously, John was a VP at Meta, an executive at a Y-Combinator augmented reality startup, and founder and CEO of ARIA. John is a graduate of Hamilton College.

Toby Redshaw
Strategic Advisor
Toby Redshaw is a transformational global technology innovator, business executive, board member, and board advisor. His experience spans Silicon Valley; incubators; ventures, 40 next-gen startups as an employee, board member, advisor or chair/exec chair. He has extensive IT transformation and leadership experience at FedEx and Motorola and held top executive roles at Verizon, American Express, Aviva, Motorola, Zoho, and FedEx. Toby was recognized as Top CTO 25 – Most Influential IT Leaders, InfoWorld, and Top 50 Global CIOs, Information Week.
Notable Achievements
- Our WINS framework published in Harvard Business Review article "Where Should Your Company Start with GenAI?”. This is one of four HBR articles on enterprise GenAI
- Dr. Sviokla and Paul Baier were both appointed HBS Executive Fellows for GenAI and both are Forbes contributors
- We released the industry-first Corporate Buyers Guide to LLM and Enterprise Intelligence Applications
- Our annual conference, GAI World, sold out in 2023 and 2024
- Paul Baier and Dr. Sviokla spoke at "MIT AI Day @ Davos" Jan 22, 2025
Press Releases
- June 29, 2023: GAI Insights Launches Inaugural Generative AI Conference
- November 14, 2023: GAI Insights Names 10 Emerging Leaders in GenAI in Industry-First Report
- July 17, 2024 "Generative AI World Returns to Boston Oct. 7-8 2024"
In the News
- "GenAI Bigger Than the Internet," Insurance Thought Leadership
- How Generative AI Customer Service is Saving One Insurance Firm $4M a Year – Nov 2023 – Innolead
- The Fear Surrounding Generative AI – TechTarget, Esther Ajao (quoting Paul Baier
- How Different Industries Apply Generative AI – TechTarget, Esther Ajao
- Paul Baier quoted in CIO Magazine article Nov 2024
- Paul Baier quoted in CIO Magazine article, Dec 2024