Alex BatesFounder

United States - San Diego, California

Alex Bates is the Founder and CEO of HelloSky, a precision talent intelligence company.

He spent the last decade bringing artificial intelligence to the forefront of the industrial market. As an undergraduate he authored 5 peer-reviewed publications (current citation count of 137), performing DARPA-funded research in neural networks, as well as research in memory and computational diagnostics. Next he jumped into the private sector, applying analytics on some of the world’s largest data warehouses at Teradata, a pioneer in big data technology.

Alex was co-founder and CTO at Mtell, a company on a mission to create a world that doesn’t break down. Mtell’s machine learning platform is used to monitor global fleets of industrial assets, in effect creating a distributed immune system to protect equipment and personnel. Mtell was acquired in 2016 by AspenTech (NASDAQ: AZPN), the global leader in process optimization software. In the two years following the acquisition of Mtell, AspenTech more than doubled its market cap, adding $4 billion of shareholder value. In June 2018, Barron’s highlighted AspenTech as one of the top three AI investments outside of FAANG (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google). Alex is lead inventor on 3 issued patents in machine learning & equipment taxonomies, and received degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science, and a concentration in Neuroscience.

His bestselling book Augmented Mind explores how the combination of AI with human intelligence — Augmented Intelligence — has revolutionary potential, exploring how to unlock human capital to solve the world's biggest problems.