Jim Stovell

Jim Stovell is the CEO of Stovell AI Systems, based in San Francisco. He founded the firm in 2014. Jim oversees product strategy and business growth as the firm continues to pioneer a new class of end-to-end AI systems focused on high value marketplace decision making. He manages a team of brilliant AI leaders. Stovell AI Systems live deployments have generated over $2 billion of directly attributable profit growth for customers across its energy and financial verticals.

Jim’s prior experience combines success in marketplaces and leading technologies. Jim co-managed First Light Capital, a San Francisco hedge fund that generated 11 years of consecutive positive returns 2003-2013. In 1998 he founded and was CEO of Outpurchase, a SaaS e-procurement company, backed by Technology Crossover Ventures and American Express. Prior to that was he was the 5th employee of Omnicell (NASDAQ: OMCL), helping grow the company to 300 employees prior to IPO.

Jim graduated from Harvard with a BA in English and a focus on Applied Mathematics in 1991. As an undergraduate, Jim also studied Mechanical Engineering at MIT and worked in MIT’s Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity and in the Cryogenics Laboratory.