Robert (Bob) Picciano has served as an advisory board member since October 2021. Mr. Picciano has served as the Chief Executive Officer of CognitiveScale, Inc., a pioneer of the concept of ‘AI Engineering', since October 2021. Mr. Picciano has 30+ years leading R&D as well as sales across software, hardware, AI and cloud portfolios. As Senior Vice President of Analytics, Software and Cognitive Systems at IBM, Mr. Picciano delivered award winning, industry leading products in the spaces of Data Science, Machine Learning, Information Management, Analytics, SaaS and Hardware systems. He led several acquisitions and strategic relationships including acquiring The Weather Company in 2016, and the development and delivery of the world's fastest and smartest HPC supercomputers (Summit and Sierra) to the U.S. Department of Energy National Labs in 2018. Mr. Picciano holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Northeastern University.