Who Should Take a Finance AI Prototype Into Production?

Praveer Melwani wants finance specialists to invent the tools and leave production to a chief information officer group. Specialists know what good looks like, what they want, and the process they are trying to get right, so they are strong at the first prototypes. He does not want the same person checking every upstream dependency, hosting the tool so it still runs if they leave, or hunting for whether anyone else in the organization has the same need.

A world-class chief information officer organization takes the handoff. Kasper Sorensen joined yesterday from Coinbase as the new chief information officer. Interview conversations focused on centralized product manager type functions inside that organization, partnering with the rest of the business teams, finding what is really working, and building foundations others can build on, much like a systems organization.