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Tuesday, September 3, 2024
John Collins - FTI Consulting
John Collins
Deep Vertical AI
Founder

Profile

John Collins is the Founder of Deep Vertical AI, a company that combines customization and deep industry expertise with advanced AI products, focusing on customized, multi-model, and multi-modal solutions. Deep Vertical AI emphasizes the power of AI when it integrates reasoning across text, vision, and audio.

Collins brings 24 years of experience to his current role. Before founding Deep Vertical AI, he was a Head of AI practice in Asia at FTI Consulting and before that an Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics Laboratory Director at HSBC. Earlier in his career he worked with Citi in OTC derivatives and OTC services. Collins graduated from EDHEC Business School with a PhD in finance.

Areas of expertise

• Fast Prototyping: Helping clients to develop processes and infrastructure to quickly test and validate AI proof-of-concepts before fully building out production AI systems. Showing clients the art of the possible with AI by solving specific business problems.

• AI Ecosystems: Helping clients to build integrated environments to support the development, deployment and management of various AI solutions across the organization. Helping clients to select, evaluate, integrate, and deploy the various components of their nascent AI Ecosystems.

• Generative AI: Helping clients unlock the potential of multi-modal generative AI that can create and manipulate text, images, video, audio, and code. Service offerings traverse training data, algorithms, GenAI applications, regulatory, ethical and social implications, limitations and challenges.

• Deep Verticals: Helping clients to strategize, design, build, implement, and manage proprietary deep vertical solutions, especially when information security is paramount. Unlike broader AI applications, a deep vertical has a narrow and highly specialized focus, unique to a particular domain and/or client.

• AI Governance: Helping clients to establish oversight processes to ensure their AI systems are developed and used responsibly, ethically, safely, and effectively. Providing ongoing independent oversight once appropriate AI governance frameworks have been established.

Group Overview

• Deep Vertical AI is revolutionizing AI consulting. We define state-of-the-art for AI services and deep vertical AI solutions delivered as AIaaS services.

Firm Overview

• We specialize in rapidly prototyping AI solutions, integrated AI ecosystems, generative AI, AI governance, and domain-specific deep verticals.