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Avrom Gilbert

Chief Executive Officer at SparkBeyond

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Avrom Gilbert frames AI's role in business decision-making as unfolding in two eras: pre-generative AI, when companies like SparkBeyond were already applying AI to structured operational data (CRM, ERP, IoT) to solve performance problems for large enterprises such as Santander, Equinor, and HDFC, and post-generative AI, ushered in by ChatGPT, which delivers rapid decision support by compressing days or weeks of research into minutes [1]. He argues a second post-generative evolution is now underway, where people move from using AI for research to trusting agents to actually make decisions, in both personal and work contexts, citing tools like Salesforce's Agentforce [1].

Gilbert's central thesis is that generative AI has broad world knowledge but lacks deep understanding of any specific business, since it has "read the whole internet" but not a company's own data lake; asking it for costs or churn insights yields only generic advice [1]. He describes the next big leap as building a Jarvis-like AI that deeply understands a business by educating large language models with a company's structured operational data, which is the explicit purpose of SparkBeyond's "always optimized" platform [1].

Experience

  1. Chief Executive Officer
    SparkBeyondNov 2023 to Present
  2. Board Member
    WesperJul 2024 to Present
  3. Board Member
    Woo.ioMay 2022 to Present
  4. Investor
    ION Asset ManagementJul 2020 to Nov 2023
  5. Startup Advisor & Board Member
    Multiple B2B, B2D and B2C companiesJul 2014 to Nov 2023
  6. COO
    COIN SCIENCES LTD (MultiChain)Oct 2018 to Nov 2020
  7. COO
    SimilarWebMar 2015 to Sep 2018
  8. Consultant COO
    ConduitSep 2014 to Feb 2015

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