Building the Foundation for Enterprise AI—Why I Joined Guild

I've spent my career helping enterprises adopt transformational technologies. From Box and Twilio to JumpCloud and Aampe, I've had the opportunity to work with organizations navigating major technology shifts, helping them understand what's possible, build confidence in new platforms, and create meaningful business value. Looking back, there's a common thread throughout my career. I've always been motivated by building.

Sometimes that meant helping build an early-stage company. Other times it meant enabling developers, security teams, and IT leaders to build with the technologies I was selling. Regardless of the role, I've always been drawn to companies solving hard technical problems that fundamentally change how people work. That is what brought me to Guild.

Over the past year, and especially over the past few months, AI has evolved faster than any technology shift I've experienced. Creating AI agents has become remarkably easy. Every organization is experimenting, teams are building prototypes, and new models seem to arrive almost weekly.

At the same time, my conversations with customers have revealed a different challenge. Many organizations have successfully automated existing workflows, but they're now asking what comes next. How do they govern the AI agents that were created? How do they secure them? How do they observe what they're doing and prove business value before scaling further?

Some organizations are beginning to deploy agents that interact with customer data or critical business systems. Others, particularly those in regulated industries, have barely moved beyond experimentation because they don't yet have confidence they can do it safely. The challenge is no longer building AI agents. The challenge is operationalizing them.

There are a lot of AI companies in the market right now, but I don't think joining an early-stage company should be about trying to predict which one will have the biggest financial outcome. For me, the decision came down to a different set of questions. What problem do I get to solve? Who do I get to build with? What will I learn? Will the work matter? Guild checked every one of those boxes.

What immediately stood out was that Guild isn't just helping companies build AI agents; it's building the infrastructure that helps enterprises deploy them in production with confidence. Organizations don't need another AI demo. They need a way to securely govern, observe, and manage agents as they become part of critical business workflows.

Guild's AI Control Plane gives organizations the flexibility to move quickly without locking themselves into a single model or provider. Its vendor-neutral approach, combined with built-in governance, observability, and security, provides the foundation enterprises need to operationalize AI with confidence. I believe that's exactly what this next chapter of AI requires.

Technology caught my attention, but the people convinced me to join.

One of my first conversations with James Everingham wasn't about sales strategy or revenue targets. It was about leadership, values, and building an environment where people can do the best work of their careers. That conversation stayed with me because it reflected something I've always believed. Great companies are built by teams that care as much about people as they do about products.

As I met more of the leadership team, it became clear that this was a group of experienced operators who had built and scaled successful companies before. They have the conviction to pursue a big opportunity and the experience to execute on it. The opportunity to learn from this team while helping shape Guild's next phase of growth was incredibly compelling.

One of the things that excites me most about AI is its ability to turn almost anyone into a builder. Today, much of the focus is on making existing work more efficient, and that's important. The bigger opportunity is helping organizations fundamentally rethink how work gets done.

That kind of transformation requires trust. Governance, observability, and security aren't obstacles that slow innovation. They are what make innovation possible. By giving organizations a secure, shared foundation for building and managing AI agents, Guild enables more people across the business to participate in creating solutions that deliver real business value.

My focus is simple. I want to help our earliest customers become wildly successful. As we continue validating product-market fit, we'll learn alongside our customers, identify repeatable patterns, and build the foundation for sustainable growth.

Success won't simply be measured by revenue. It will be measured by helping customers transform the way they operate with AI agents while building a company that attracts exceptional people who want to solve these challenges together.

There has never been a more exciting time to help enterprises move from AI experimentation to production. I'm thrilled to be joining Guild and look forward to helping our customers build what's next.