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Team

The team behind BGI Labs.

Our leaders have spent a decade or two on this exact problem. Our research bench covers every layer of the stack. That depth is our moat.

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01 / Leadership

Leadership.

Dr. Ben Goertzel

Dr. Ben Goertzel

Executive Chairman & Chief Scientist

Launched the term and concept of artificial general intelligence. Architect of OpenCog and Hyperon, with 260+ publications and 25+ books, and helped create the humanoid robot Sophia at Hanson Robotics.

Dr. Ben Heng

Dr. Ben Heng

Chief Executive Officer

Serial innovator with 85+ patents and senior leadership roles at Tesla, Intel, SolarCity, and ESS. General Partner of 99VC, an AI fund focused on agentic/physical AI.

Dr. Elija Perrier

Dr. Elija Perrier

Chief Operating Officer

AI researcher and strategist with a PhD in quantum machine learning and 30+ publications on the foundations, economics, and governance of advanced AI. Research Affiliate at the University of Cambridge.

Cassio Pennachin

Cassio Pennachin

Chief Technology Officer

Has built AGI with Dr. Ben Goertzel for more than two decades. Co-edited Artificial General Intelligence, the 2007 book that put the field on the map, and led data science at Shopify.

Jordan Wagner

Jordan Wagner

Chief Marketing Officer

Nearly a decade of growth leadership across AI-native, health, and commerce companies. Leads brand, positioning, and launches for BGI Labs.

Dr. Matthew Iklé

Dr. Matthew Iklé

Chief AI Officer

Mathematician whose work with Dr. Ben Goertzel dates to the 1990s. Co-author of Probabilistic Logic Networks.

Kai Zen Bickle

Kai Zen Bickle

Chief Ethics Officer

Award-winning ethics advocate. Leads the governance and ethics behind our approach to beneficial AGI.

Dr. Mihaela Ulieru

Dr. Mihaela Ulieru

Head of Partnerships

Digital economy expert with 200+ peer-reviewed publications. President of the IMPACT Institute for the Digital Economy.

Khellar Crawford

Khellar Crawford

Head of Products

25+ years turning emerging technologies into scalable products. Co-founded Otomo, an autonomous banking platform with 500,000+ users.

Granger Whitelaw

Granger Whitelaw

Board Member

Venture capitalist and serial entrepreneur who has raised $10B+. Co-founded BlueCar Partners and Rocket Racing.

02 / Research bench

Specialists across every
layer of the stack.

20+

Senior engineers, scientists, and PhDs

750+

Publications

9,000+

Citations

  • Dr. Alexey Potapov

    Leads MeTTa development.

  • Dr. Nil Geisweiller

    20+ years on Hyperon and its predecessors.

  • Dr. Patrick Hammer

    Built the Omega Agents framework.

  • Sergey Shalyapin

    Transformer neural networks since 2017.

  • Dr. Suzanne Yoakum-Stover

    Neural-symbolic AI at government scale.

  • Dr. Matthew Behrend

    Predictive coding research.

  • Dr. Michael T. Bennett

    Learning theory; JAGI associate editor.

  • Dr. Ruiting Lian

    Grounded language understanding.

  • Dr. Gabriel Axel Montes

    Cognitive neuroscience; directs the first accredited AGI master’s program.

  • Daniel McDonald

    Production voice AI at global scale.

  • Roman Treutlein

    Reasoning on the Hyperon stack.

03 / Careers

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