About us

Practitioners who have been on the other side of this table.

Metacogni is small on purpose and senior on purpose. Everyone here has run, governed, or rescued a real AI program inside a large organization, usually more than one, and usually including at least one that did not work.

Founder

Jordan Ellis

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Jordan founded Metacogni after two decades split between engineering leadership and enterprise transformation, and after watching the same pattern repeat in both seats: capable organizations spending enormous sums to automate processes nobody had looked at twice. He previously led platform engineering at a data infrastructure company through acquisition, then spent six years running AI adoption programs inside financial services and healthcare institutions. He still writes the baseline assessment for every client engagement himself.

Founded

2024

Headquarters

Remote-first, United States

Team

22 engineers, risk leaders, and operators

Focus

Enterprise AI adoption, governance, and enablement

Leadership

The people you will actually work with.

There is no separate delivery team. The executives listed here run engagements themselves, which is the main limit on how many clients we take on.

Priya Raghavan

Chief Strategy Officer

Priya leads the advisory practice and owns our position on where the frontier is heading. She spent nine years advising boards on technology strategy and has run workload triage for organizations with more than two hundred competing AI initiatives.

Marcus Oyelaran

Chief Technology Officer

Marcus runs the engineering bench. He has built machine learning platforms at consumer scale and shipped regulated software in healthcare, and he is very good at telling a client which half of their architecture is premature.

Sofia Lindqvist

Head of Enterprise Adoption

Sofia owns the quality of every adoption engagement. She was previously a chief operating officer at two enterprise software companies and has led AI rollouts across organizations of more than forty thousand employees.

Daniel Whitfield

Managing Director, Governance & Risk

Daniel leads guardrail and compliance engagements. A former public-company controls leader turned platform engineer, he has taken four organizations through their first AI-inclusive audit and a good many more through their first honest risk assessment.

Aisha Nakamura

Head of Design & Delivery

Aisha runs embedded delivery squads. She spent a decade in technical program management across infrastructure and platform organizations, and specializes in the first hundred days after a strategy has been agreed and everyone discovers what it meant.

Tomás Herrera

Head of Enablement & Fluency

Tomás builds the training programs. He led technical education at two high-growth companies and insists on writing the competency assessment before designing a single hour of curriculum.

Board of directors

Governance that predates the need for it.

We built a real board early, with independent directors who have no economic reason to agree with us. It is the same arrangement we recommend for the AI oversight function of every client we work with.

Eleanor Voss

Board Chair

Eleanor has chaired the boards of three technology companies and focuses on governance design, particularly the quality of the questions a board is able to ask about systems it does not operate.

Rajiv Menon

Independent Director

Rajiv spent his career in enterprise software, most recently as president of a publicly traded infrastructure business. He advises on how large organizations really buy, adopt, and abandon technology.

Grace Okafor

Independent Director

Grace is a technology and privacy attorney who has advised institutions through two decades of regulatory change. She chairs the audit and responsible AI committee.

Thomas Bergström

Independent Director

Thomas founded and sold two developer-tools companies and now works on machine learning systems research. He is our most reliable source of skepticism about anything described as autonomous.

Careers

We hire slowly, and almost always from people we have worked with.

If you are a senior engineer, risk leader, or operator who would rather solve this problem across many organizations than inside one, we would like to hear from you, even when nothing is posted.

careers@metacogni.com

Meet the people, not the pitch.

The first conversation is with whoever would run your engagement. That is the whole point.

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