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H2O AI Top 100 Winners

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H2O AI Top 100 Winners

Source: H2O.ai
September 25, 2026
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A community of innovators driving the future of AI

Welcome to our inaugural H2O AI 100 list, where visionaries are breaking barriers and driving innovation. These individuals are making the AI wave, not following it.

We combined the power of AI with industry expertise to identify the best in the business. Using Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.5, OpenAI’s GPT-4o, our own Enterprise h2oGPTe, and the sharp insights of several industry experts, we meticulously evaluated hundreds of applications. These tools and our judges' expertise enabled us to measure the impact, innovation, leadership, and scalability of each candidate's AI innovations through their public track record and nomination details.

The result? A list curated by AI and refined by our expert team, showcasing the top 100 individuals who are transforming bold ideas into AI-driven realities. Enjoy the journey!

Featured Winners

ENTERPRISE

Teresa Heitsenrether

ORGANIZATION: JPMorgan Chase TITLE: CDAO

Gassia Fox

ORGANIZATION: BlackRock TITLE: Global Head of BlackRock Private Markets Technology

Harald Schneider

ORGANIZATION: Equifax TITLE: CDAO

Priscilla Almodovar

ORGANIZATION: Fannie Mae TITLE: President and CEO

Dr. Timnit Gebru

ORGANIZATION: The Distributed AI Research Institute TITLE: Founder & Executive Director

Dan Jermyn

ORGANIZATION: Commonwealth Bank of Australia TITLE: Chief Decision Scientist

Sabrina Dahlgren

ORGANIZATION: Kaiser Permanente TITLE: Managing Director of Analytics

Chintan Mehta

ORGANIZATION: Wells Fargo TITLE: EVP, CIO, Innovation and Strategy, Technology Fellow

Anna Yip

ORGANIZATION: Singtel TITLE: CEO

Andy Markus

ORGANIZATION: AT&T TITLE: Chief Data Officer - AT&T Communications

Dr. Swatee Singh

ORGANIZATION: TIAA TITLE: CIO Data, AI and Corporate Tech

Agus Sudjianto

ORGANIZATION: H2O.ai, Ex-Wells Fargo TITLE: SVP Risk and Technology, Former EVP Head of Corporate Model Risk

PUBLIC SECTOR

Uday Metpally

ORGANIZATION: United States National Institutes of Health TITLE: Director, Technology Strategy

Dr. John Scott

ORGANIZATION: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs TITLE: Chief Data Officer

Shane Barney

ORGANIZATION: United States Citizenship and Immigration Services TITLE: CISO

Loren Bushkar

ORGANIZATION: Federal Reserve Board TITLE: Innovation Policy

AI FOR GOOD / RESEARCH SCIENTIST

Dr. Fei-Fei Li

ORGANIZATION: Stanford University and AI4ALL TITLE: Professor of Computer Science and Co-Founder

Dr. Ebtesam Almazrouei

ORGANIZATION: UN Chair and Founder/CEO of AIE3 TITLE: Chairperson of United Nations, AI for Good

Dr. Tanya Y Berger-Wolf

ORGANIZATION: Ohio State University and Wild Me TITLE: Professor and Co-founder of Wildbook at conservation non-profit Wild Me

Dr. Yann LeCun

ORGANIZATION: Meta TITLE: VP, Chief AI Scientist

Our Top 100

Judges

Alexandra V. Mousavizadeh

CEO and Co-founder, Evident

Alexandra has spent the last 25 years ranking and quantifying complex societal and political forces. She started her career at Moody’s, then Morgan Stanley, later became CEO of ARC Ratings and then Director of the Prosperity Index. Most recently, Alexandra was a Founding Partner at Tortoise Media, where she ran Tortoise Intelligence, the Index and data business. Here, she was the architect of the groundbreaking Global AI Index, the first benchmark to track the strength of national AI ecosystems. She holds a degree in economics, mathematics and game theory from the University of Copenhagen.

Olivier Grellier

Vice President of Data Science, H2O.ai

Olivier Grellier is a double Kaggle Grandmaster who joined H2O as a Senior Data Scientist in 2019 and is leading the largest Grandmaster team in the world since 2020, an incredible privilege! Olivier holds a Ph.D. in Signal Processing and graduated from Centrale/Supelec, France. Before H2O.ai, he engaged in software development, data science, project management and team leading at Amadeus London and Capgemini Paris.

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