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BASKING RIDGE, N.J. — The software engineering services firm Ascendion hired a leader to drive innovation and operational excellence for its AI initiatives and technologies for clients.
Ascendion, an AI-first firm, named Daryush Laqab as chief AI officer, according to the firm this month.
He reports to the CEO of Ascendion, Karthik Krishnamurthy.
Most recently, Laqab served as director of product management for NVIDIA's autonomous vehicles and AI infrastructure team.
"Throughout his career, Daryush has been at the cutting edge of delivering AI-fueled value and service to clients," Krishnamurthy said. "Today, business and technology leaders in every sector must now resolve challenges related to trust, velocity and capital needed for the next wave of innovation."
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Laqab has over 20 years of experience in technology leadership, including integrating advanced technologies into business strategies.
At NVIDIA, Laqab led his team's tooling, platform engineering, validation and infrastructure, managing thousands of GPUs for hundreds of engineers and machine learning (ML) pros.
Previously, Laqab served as head of engineering and product at JPMorgan Chase & Co., where led the strategy and development of the AI/ML platform and ecosystem. He also led the development of several products for Microsoft, Twitter and Google, where he created Contact Center AI on Google Cloud and other AI products.
He holds a B.S. and an M.S. in computer science from the University of Nebraska at Omaha and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, according to LinkedIn.
"The ecosystem of powerful processors, cloud platforms, connectivity and GenAI-based tools and models, like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Mistral and others, is maturing rapidly," Laqab said. "This new stack is poised to disrupt nearly every industry, but GenAI needs to be taken the last mile to change how we work. This vision has captured all our imaginations, but in order to make the future of work a reality, we need to evolve how data is used and how software is engineered."
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