Today’s Talent Pool

Canadian AI model company Cohere is combining with Germany's Aleph Alpha, in a deal that Axios has learned will value it around $20 billion after a concurrent Series E closes.

  1. Jaron Waldman in Toronto (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: CPO @ Cohere (3 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & CEO @ Curbside (acquired by Rakuten), CEO Rakuten Ready, Founder & CEO @ Placebase (acquired by Apple), Head of Engineering Geo @ Apple, UCLA

    3. Description: "Builder, Founder & Product Executive in AI and Geospatial”

  2. Dustin Z. in NYC (Stealth)

    1. Role: Head of Strategy & Operations @ Cohere (3 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Chief of Staff @ Skild AI, Senior Associate Consultant @ Bain & Company

    3. Description: Left Skild AI 2025

  3. Vi Iyengar in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: Head of Applied ML @ Cohere (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Head of ML, Multimodal & GenAI @ Netflix, UW-Madison PhD

    3. Description: Stealth since 4/26

  4. Jonathan Rosenbluth in US (Stealth)

    1. Role: Head of Development & CoS @ Cohere (4.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Interim CPO @ Oumi ($10M from Obvious and Venrock), Consultant @ McKinsey, Harvard Law JD

    3. Description: "AI and legal services" (with David Stewart). Stealth since 2/26

  5. David Stewart in DC (Stealth)

    1. Role: Director of AI Solution Architecture @ Cohere (3.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Head of AI Field Engineering @ Oumi, Forward Deployed Data Scientist @ Primer.ai, Data Scientist @ PwC

    3. Description: "AI and legal services" (with Jonathan Rosenbluth). Stealth since 4/26

  6. Rodrigue Hajjar in Toronto (Stealth)

    1. Role: VP of Engineering @ Cohere (3 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Director of Engineering @ McAfee

    3. Description: Left Cohere 11/25

    4. Contact: Twitter

  7. Marco Gelmi in London (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: MTS @ Cohere (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Staff SWE @ Google DeepMind, Sr SWE @ Uber, Forward Deployed Engineer @ Palantir, VP @ Morgan Stanley, SWE @ Google

    3. Description: Left Cohere 12/25

  8. Lily Walker in NYC (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Head of ML @ Cohere (3 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Director of Engineering @ Silicon Labs, R&D Program Manager @ HPE, Technical Lead @ Pure Storage

    3. Description: Left Cohere 9/25

  9. Hudhayfa Nazoordeen in SF (Co-Founder @ Normal)

    1. Role: SWE @ Cohere (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: University of Waterloo Math

    3. Description: "Vanta for Hardware" — automating hardware certification for drones to robots

    4. Funding: YC S25.

    5. Contact: [email protected], Site

  10. Jonathan Li in SF (Co-Founder & CEO @ Induction Labs)

    1. Role: MTS @ Cohere (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder @ Portal Wear, ML Research Associate @ Queen's

    3. Description: "Building the best computer use model in the world"

    4. Funding: YC S25.

    5. Contact: Site

  11. Serhan Yilmaz in NYC (Co-Founder @ Magnos)

    1. Role: Researcher @ Cohere (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Researcher @ CMU

    3. Description: "AI Operating System for automated reporting, planning, and analysis."

    4. Contact: Site

  12. Celia Greco in Florida (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Head of AI @ Cohere (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Sr AI Engineering Manager @ Tenable, AI Engineering Manager @ Procore

    3. Description: Left Cohere 9/25

  13. Chen Xia in US (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: MTS @ Cohere (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: ML Engineer @ Nuro, Graduate Research Assistant @ CMU LTI, CMU MS CS

    3. Description: Left Cohere 12/25

  14. Yair K. in Toronto (Stealth)

    1. Role: Foundational Model Specialist @ Cohere (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Founder & CTO @ Caplift, Co-Founder @ Flair Inc., Founding Engineer @ Zaqa, Founding Engineer @ LTV.ai, McMaster BE Software Engineering

    3. Description: Stealth since 2/26

    4. Contact: Site

  15. Siddhartha Rao Kamalakara in Toronto (Stealth)

    1. Role: Staff MLE @ Cohere (3.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Research Engineer @ PsiQuantum, Staff Engineer @ Runway

    3. Description: Stealth since 3/26

  16. Ye Shen in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Manager of Technical Staff @ Cohere (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: SWE ML @ Google, SDE @ Amazon, NYU MS CS

    3. Description: Left stealth startup 3/26

  17. Xiufang Zhu in US (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Director of AI Platform @ Cohere (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Research Scientist @ Amazon, Sr Applied Scientist @ Amazon, Applied Scientist @ Microsoft, ML Engineer @ Microsoft, UC Berkeley BS CS, USC MS

    3. Description: Left Cohere 2024

  18. Amir Shukayev in Toronto (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: MTS @ Cohere (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: SWE Intern @ Meta, SWE Intern @ Jane Street

    3. Description: Left Cohere 7/25

    4. Contact: GitHub

  19. Alex Manthey in London (Stealth)

    1. Role: RAG Operations Lead @ Cohere (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Head of Data @ Contextual AI, Sr Manager @ GLG

    3. Description: "Cultivating data for AI agents."

  20. Dean H. in US (Building @ Caid)

    1. Role: Research @ Cohere (1 yr)

    2. Description: "Automating parametric design & modeling"

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