Company

Leadership

Operators and researchers from trading technology, enterprise software, and defense — building the team behind SwarmX (Fugue).

Leadership

Executive Team

Jerry Zhang

Co-Founder & Chief Science Officer

Over 40 years developing the theoretical foundations of machine intelligence, symbolic reasoning, and universal language understanding. Holds patents behind AGI's core technology and serves as President of AGI Labs.

Kurt Bonatz

Co-Founder & President

Seasoned entrepreneur and finance executive who has built, scaled, and exited high-growth companies — including a 150-person accounting and finance firm sold to private equity within three years.

Daniel Coleman

Chief Executive Officer

Capital markets executive with a background leading global trading businesses and fintech platforms, including Global Head of Equities at UBS and CEO of GETCO and KCG Holdings.

Nick Ogurtsov

Chairman & Chief Strategy Officer

Nearly three decades across fintech, electronic trading, and venture capital, including COO and Chief Risk Officer of KCG Holdings and Managing Director at UBS Investment Bank.

Deb Gordon-Gill

Chief Growth Officer

Over 25 years of enterprise technology and sales leadership, with prior roles at Red Hat and IBM helping large organizations modernize mission-critical operations.

Jonathan Ross

Chief Technology Officer

Veteran trading-technology leader who has built and integrated high-performance electronic markets as CTO of Nasdaq, INET, GETCO, and KCG Holdings.

Lars Hermann

Chief Product Officer

Over 25 years of enterprise software leadership across product, partnerships, and hybrid cloud, with prior roles at Red Hat and MongoDB.

Salem Elrahal

Chief Architect

More than two decades building resilient, open-source services, including a tenure as Chief Architect at Red Hat across cloud-native and enterprise-scale platform engineering.

Leadership

Extended Leadership Team

Aaron Poynton

Chief Revenue Officer

Over 25 years of technology sales and executive leadership across AI and mission-critical markets; Executive Director of the American Society for AI.

General Eric Wesley

VP, Government Affairs

Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General with deep experience in modernization and defense innovation, formerly Deputy Commanding General of Army Futures Command.

Chris Esworthy

Head of AGI Labs

Sales and technology entrepreneur with 30 years building startups and new enterprise business; founder of four ventures with three successful exits.

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