Summary
Parsa Ghaffari is a founder and AI product leader with 13 years of experience building and scaling ML- and NLP-driven businesses, including founding AYLIEN and leading its acquisition by Quantexa. At Quantexa he co-led GenAI strategy and brought an LLM-based copilot from concept to customer pilots, and he now runs an innovation lab exploring ambitious AI products. He combines academic depth—20+ NLP papers with 700+ citations—and hands-on commercial success raising €10M+ in VC and serving enterprise clients like Wells Fargo and S&P Global. Active in the Irish startup ecosystem as a mentor and policy advocate, he also advises boards on practical AI adoption challenges. Notably, he blends researcher-level credibility with operator instincts, moving technologies from papers into revenue-generating products.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer