Leadership

Leadership

Purpose, vision, and the experience to succeed

Leadership guides Semantic AI to success and inspires our team to reach new heights. Discover the driving forces behind our company's strategic direction and gain insights into the values that shape our corporate culture.

Richard (Chip) Harrison Chief Executive Officer and Founder

Richard ‘Chip’ T. Harrison is one of the co-founders of Semantic AI, and brings with him more than three decades of executive management experience. In 1983, Chip founded Peripheral Systems, Inc.—a trailblazer in the system integration marketplace. Chip also started up Cyberworks and turned it from a pioneering Web development and design studio into a leading Internet business development firm. Before heading up Semantic AI, he served as the COO of Working Woman Network, a global organization dedicated to helping working women build their businesses, careers and lives. Chip also participated in the initial design of the EDGAR systems for the Securities and Exchange Commission. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors for Inland Entertainment, and is a member of the Advisory Board at RadiantBlue Technologies, Inc. Today, Chip is the Chief Executive Officer of Semantic AI Inc., and makes his home in La Jolla, CA.

Chip
Harrison

CEO and Founder

Richard (Chip) Harrison Chief Executive Officer and Founder

Richard ‘Chip’ T. Harrison is one of the co-founders of Semantic AI, and brings with him more than three decades of executive management experience. In 1983, Chip founded Peripheral Systems, Inc. – a trailblazer in the system integration marketplace. Chip also started up Cyberworks and turned it from a pioneering Web development and design studio into a leading Internet business development firm. And just before heading up Semantic AI, he served as the COO of Working Woman Network, a global organization dedicated to helping working women build their businesses, careers and lives. Chip also participated in the initial design of the EDGAR systems for the Securities and Exchange Commission. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors for Inland Entertainment, and is a member of the Advisory Board at RadiantBlue Technologies, Inc. Today, Chip is the Chief Executive Officer of Semantic AI and makes his home in La Jolla, CA.

Matt
Landa

Executive Chairman

Matt Landa Executive Chairman

Matt Landa has over 25 years of C-level management experience, including being the CEO of two publicly-traded companies. Matt began his career in 1986 at Monitor Company, a strategy consulting firm focused on working with c-suite executives of Fortune 500 companies. In 1995, Matt joined CMCI Industries, an electronics manufacturing services provider (and a NASDAQ-listed company) as its CEO, where he led the company to a tripling of its revenue over his five years at the helm. In 2000, Matt joined the Active Network, a SaaS provider of ERP services to activities-based organizations, and was part of the team that led the company to three straight Inc. 500 and Deloitte Fast 50 Awards, as well as being named Ernst & Young’s Technology Entrepreneur of the Year for San Diego County. Matt and the Active Network team took the company public on the NYSE in 2011, growing its annual revenue to over $400 million by 2013. Matt received an A.B. with concentrations in Engineering and Economics from Dartmouth College, and an M.B.A. from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.

Thomas J.
Jurewicz

CFO

Thomas J. Jurewicz CFO

Thomas J. Jurewicz has served as Semantic AI’s CFO since February 2019. He was most recently the VP Finance for Google’s (Nasdaq: GOOG) Cloud division where, from 2016 until 2019, he was responsible for all financial matters of this multi billion-dollar unit. Before joining Google, Mr. Jurewicz served as a board and audit committee member of Modsys International (Nasdaq: MDSY), a software legacy migration company, from 2012 to 2016. Between 1999 and 2011, Mr. Jurewicz held various financial positions at VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) and its subsidiaries, including treasurer, CFO, and EMEA controller. Prior to that, Mr. Jurewicz held financial roles at CMC Industries, Inc. (Nasdaq: CMCI) and NETCOM On-Line Communications (Nasdaq: NETC). Early in his career, he was an investment banker for Merrill Lynch & Co. (NYSE: ML). Mr. Jurewicz holds an MBA from Stanford University, and a BS in Applied Mathematics from Yale University.

Joseph
Faletti

Chief Scientist and Founder

Joseph Faletti

Chief Scientist and Founder

Joe Faletti has over 20 years of experience crafting software solutions to interesting problems, especially in the field of semantics. Before most people had home computers, Joe was already designing and building knowledge representation tools and visual analysis environments. Just before starting Semantic AI in 2001, Joe spent three years in data collection, curation and analysis for Kaiser Permanente's Y2K project. He also developed web-based communications tools for Wordwalla and was the design lead and software engineer for Semantica's predecessor, SemNet software. With a passion for teaching, Joe designed and helped build six learning and assessment software systems at UC-Berkeley, UC-Davis and San Diego State University. Today, as Chief Scientist of Semantic AI, he prides himself on bridging the worlds of software development, social network theory and semantics to solve scientific problems.

Tim
LaMarca

VP Product and Special Projects

Tim LaMarca VP Product and Special Projects

As a career technologist, Tim is most passionate about using Semantic AI’s tools to provide solutions to otherwise unapproachable problem sets. And he’s qualified to do just that, with more than two decades of experience in the software field. After stints developing and supporting embedded systems, development libraries and ‘dot-coms,’ Tim joined Semantic AI in 2002 as a member of the original engineering team. Following a hiatus that saw him working for Software AG—applying W3C Semantic Technologies to their WebMethods product suite—Tim returned to Semantic AI to head up Product Management, and eventually all of Software Development. Tim has also held positions in customer support, software engineering, quality assurance, engineering management and technical operations; making him intimately familiar with all aspects of delivering production quality systems.

Ramos
Mays

Chief Technology
Officer

Ramos Mays Chief Technology Officer

Ramos is a highly talented and accomplished technologist. He began his career as founder and Chief Science Officer of a venture-backed biotech start-up, where he filed the first of his seven patents. Since then, he has held a variety of tech leadership positions at start-up and Fortune 100 companies, and has developed technologies ranging from insulin pumps to high-speed, high-throughput enterprise back-ends. Ramos is the recipient of multiple recognitions including the SBA Young Entrepreneur of the Year and the St. Louis Business Journal’s "Who’s Who in Technology" list, along with earning a nomination for MIT’s TR35 Young Innovator Award, two years in a row. Ramos did his Master’s work in Condensed Matter Physics in Stockholm, Sweden, and holds a degree in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis.

Contact a Semantic AI Specialist Today Find Out More