Dominic Lam received his doctoral degree in Condensed Matter Physics from the University of Toronto. During his 14 years in IBM’s advanced computing business, Dr. Lam moved from a technical role to one in business development. Client engagements earned Dr. Lam the credibility required to provide consulting services to senior leaders in many organizations, both public and private sector. In the last 10 years, Dr. Lam’s expertise transitioned from working on high performance computing and data analytics to Artificial Intelligence based solutions. As a visiting scientist providing IT support to researchers at Princess Margaret Cancer Research Centre, he came to understand the uniqueness of AI operations. Then, as business development director in an AI based software start-up Datadex Inc. and later, senior AI consultant at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, he came back to engage business executives to learn and address their challenges in their AI initiatives. Dr. Lam is uniquely positioned to provide insights for business executives on how to be successful in building and executing AI strategies to maximize its benefits to business.