James co-founded and serves as the CEO of the AI for Good Foundation (www.ai4good.org). He is a researcher at the Jozef Stefan Institute Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in Slovenia, and advises/invests in promising early stage companies with a strong AI component. Previously, James directed AI research at Bloomberg in New York, leading a team of 20 in a rich cross-disciplinary research agenda. He created several high profile events for the AI, data science, non-profit, and policy communities such as the KDD Data Mining for Social Good Conference in August of 2014.