Laurent Louvrier

I run AI for a business that sells to very large financial institutions (9 of the top 10 asset managers, 10 of the top 10 asset servicers, 1,000+ clients across 40 countries). My job is to decide where AI actually pays, build the team that ships it, and own the number at the end.

That combination is rarer than it should be. Most AI leaders have never carried revenue. Most people who have carried revenue have never shipped a model into production.

CURRENT WORK SVP of AI & Product Innovation at PE-backed Confluence. I set architecture direction for every Data and AI initiative firm-wide, run a large team of product people and engineers, and own the P&L for the Portfolio Risk & Performance Analytics division ($40m+). GenAI and agentic capabilities are live in front of institutional clients. I decide what gets built, who builds it, and when it is good enough to put in front of a sophisticated and regulated client.

PORTFOLIO ADVISORY WORKSenior Advisor to ACCURAFY4 since 2023, across several portfolio companies in Agentic AI, Data and Cyber. The work is separating the two or three AI initiatives that move gross margin, win rate or cost-to-serve from the twenty that make a good board slide, then helping the CEO actually execute on them.

WHAT I'VE BUILT AND SOLD Founded SuccessData in 2018 and sold it in 2023: machine learning for unstructured financial documents, years before GPT 3.5 and before document intelligence became a category. Raised VC capital, several large enterprise clients, team of 15, acquired by Cyclone Robotics. Building an AI company from scratch teaches what a strategy deck cannot — how long production AI really takes, what it really costs, and how to tell a real product from a demo.

WHAT I'VE RUN Eight years at MSCI, latterly running the EMEA Analytics business: $150m+ ARR, full P&L, pricing, roadmap, partnerships and M&A. Before that, structured credit and quantitative research.

Engineer by training — MSc in Financial Mathematics & Computer Science (ENSIMAG). London-based.