AI Fellows
The AI Fellows are a select group of senior industry leaders who serve in an advisory capacity to the Fordham AI Business Hub powered by the Gabelli School of Business. Drawing on deep experience across business, technology, policy, and applied AI, Fellows provide strategic guidance, thought partnership, and external perspective as the Hub advances its mission.
Dan Diasio
Principal, Artificial Intelligence, EY
Dan Diasio serves as EY’s global and Americas consulting artificial intelligence leader and Americas consulting CTO, overseeing over $1B in AI-driven revenue. He leads a global team across 10 regions, advising C-suite leaders at the world’s largest companies on AI transformation. As CTO, he builds the next generation of products and platforms and is focused on unlocking new business models for how consulting gets delivered and monetized in an AI era.
His perspective: AI lifts the floor. People raise the ceiling. Most transformations get stuck automating yesterday instead of designing tomorrow.
At EY, the approach has been to live the transformation first—launching training programs reaching 125,000 consultants globally and redefining consulting services in the face of AI.
Diasio appears on platforms that include: Harvard Business School Future of Work, Microsoft WorkLab, CES, and SXSW. He is a member of the NIST Generative AI Public Working Group.
Tal Goldhamer
AI Educator and Activator; CEO, Find the Tailwind
Tal Goldhamer imagines a world where people are so inspired by what they learn that they feel compelled to pass it on to others. He is an AI expert, educator, and transformation advisor who helps leaders and teams grow, drawing upon 30 years of experience at EY as a former senior partner and a decade as chief learning officer.
Today, as CEO of Find the Tailwind, Goldhamer hosts AI transformation workshops across the US, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. His programs provide leaders with practical confidence in AI to identify high value use cases that create momentum for real change.
Goldhamer also serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Denver, teaching graduate courses on artificial intelligence. He shares his deep thought leadership at conferences and symposiums, as well as through media outlets such as Harvard Business Review. Goldhamer also is known for his practical, plain-language style that keeps AI accessible.
Vincent Ponzo
Former Responsible AI Business Development Lead, Amazon AI, Author, “Say Hi to AI!”
Vincent Ponzo has been a member of New York’s startup and technology ecosystem since earning an MBA from Columbia Business School in 2003. He held executive roles at several NYC venture-backed startups and later served as the managing director of the Lang Entrepreneurship Center at Columbia Business School, where he also taught as an adjunct professor.
He spent eight years at Amazon, first on the AWS Startups team, launching and leading the company’s university startup engagement strategy, and later on Amazon’s AI team as head of responsible AI business development.
Ponzo currently advises multiple startups, is an AI Fellow at Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business, and recently published a children’s book on artificial intelligence titled “Say Hi to AI!”
Dana Rao
Former Executive Vice-President, General Counsel, Adobe
Dana Rao was executive vice-president, general counsel at Adobe, where he managed Adobe’s legal, public policy, and cybersecurity organizations and served as corporate secretary to Adobe's Board of Directors. His focus areas ranged from creating Adobe’s AI Ethics engineering program, its Content Authenticity Initiative to fight deepfakes, and advocating for creator IP Rights in the age of AI. He retired as general counsel in October 2024.
Previous to Adobe, Rao spent 12 years as an intellectual property attorney at Microsoft. He began his legal career at the law firm of Fenwick & West in Palo Alto. Rao earned an undergraduate degree from Villanova University in electrical engineering and a law degree from The George Washington University School of Law.
Rao currently is working on and working with a variety of early-stage, AI-focused start-ups.
Tendü Yogurtcu, PhD
Chief Technology Officer, Precisely
Tendü Yoğurtcu, Ph.D. is Chief Technology Officer at Precisely, where she leads global technology strategy and product innovation focused on trusted data and AI. She previously served as General Manager of Big Data at Syncsort, overseeing its global data integration software business. With more than 25 years of software industry leadership, she brings deep expertise in data management, AI, cloud, and enterprise transformation. She has also taught Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology.
Dr. Yoğurtcu is a recognized technology leader, advising organizations on how to scale AI innovation while ensuring trust, governance, and business impact, and is a long-standing advocate for STEM education. Her honors include CTO of the Year at the Women in IT Awards, WomenTech’s Top 100 Chief Tech Leaders to Watch (2025), and recognition by Women We Admire as one of the Top 50 CTOs (2025) and Top 50 Women Leaders in Technology (2024).
Dr. Yoğurtcu is a member of the Forbes Technology Council, serves on Firstboard.io’s AI Council, leads TÜSİAD New York Network AI Group, and serves on advisory boards for Drexel University School of Applied AI, Stevens Institute of Technology School of Engineering, and VCs. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology, and M.S. and B.S. degrees from Boğaziçi University in Istanbul.
Peter Zangari
Partner & Head of Americas, MDOTM Ltd
Peter Zangari is an accomplished executive with over 25 years of experience, with leadership positions in business management, research, investment management, and financial technology and services. His diverse professional background includes pioneering research in equity factor risk modeling and market risk measurement, business turnaround experience, and innovation in research management design. Among his accomplishments, he is most proud of his ability to recruit, motivate and retain investment and technical teams of varying sizes.
Currently, Zangari is a private investor and in January 2024, became a partner and head of Americas for MDOTM, an early stage fintech company that focuses on the global investment industry. He also is an adjunct professor at Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business where he currently teaches a course on AI and the Financial Markets.
Previously, Zangari was the global head of research and product development at MSCI until January 2023. He was a member of the firm’s executive committee. Prior to joining MSCI, Zangari held increasingly senior positions at Goldman Sachs Asset Management and J.P. Morgan.