BigBear.ai has welcomed Theodore Tanner Jr. as its new chief technology officer.
The company newcomer will bring over three decades of experience across a variety of technology companies to the role, BigBear.ai announced from its Columbia, Maryland headquarters on Monday.
Mandy Long, CEO of BigBear.ai, highlighted Tanner’s long history of architecting AI technologies and managing related profit and loss. She said that his “extensive experience and expertise will be instrumental” to the organization’s work to provide its technology offerings to leaders in the public sector, manufacturing and warehouse operations and healthcare and life sciences.
“We are thrilled to welcome another seasoned leader to our executive team with Ted as our chief technology officer,” said Long.
Prior to joining BigBear.ai, Tanner was CTO and chief architect at Merative, formerly IBM Watson Health. Earlier in his career, he held architect roles at Microsoft and Apple.
Tanner has co-found multiple startups, including BeliefNetwork — one of the earliest machine learning and natural language processing as a service organizations on Amazon Web Services — and PokitDok Inc., which was later acquired by Change Health.
Throughout his career, Tanner has received several patents related to blockchain, semantics, machine learning, signal processing and signal protection.
Currently, Tanner sits on the Industry Advisory Board for the University of South Carolina Computer Science Department and the Center for Intelligent Systems and Machine Learning at the University of Tennessee. He also serves as an industry member of the Association for Computing Machinery and is a published author.
Tanner said that BigBear.ai is “perfectly positioned” to deliver advanced AI algorithms and offerings to the intelligence community, Department of Defense and other federal entities as well as the private sector.
“I am excited to be working with this stellar team immediately bringing all of my platform, operating system and algorithm experience architecting groundbreaking AI solutions that will provide a higher form of decision intelligence for our customers as our industry transitions into the Age Of Artificial Intelligence.” said Tanner.
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