Why I joined Tile.ai as CEO

After retiring from a 33-year enterprise IT career that included CIO roles at Merck and Alexion, the author returned to biopharma as CEO of Tile.ai after concluding that artificial intelligence has renewed the longstanding challenge of enterprise data usability. They argue that prior technology waves, from ERP and cloud computing to data lakes and collaboration platforms, repeatedly created fragmented and poorly governed data environments despite substantial investment. As AI models become increasingly commoditized, the author contends that an enterprise’s competitive advantage will depend on making its distributed data discoverable, accessible, secure, and governed for both people and AI systems. Tile.ai, formerly TileDB, is presented as an Enterprise AI Data Substrate that prepares data for AI where it already resides, avoiding migrations while using a “Tile” primitive to embed data context, tools, and access controls directly into the infrastructure.

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