Season 26 Episode 1706
S2 E16 Zach Damasco Entrepreneur and Co-Founder of Asentio
#AI #entrepreneurs #entrepreneurship Zach is a seasoned entrepreneur and award-winning product builder from Queens, New York. With a background of having created Amazon's Choice products, won the Mozilla Fix-the-Internet competition against over 200 global companies, and moost recently, co-founding Asentio – a sustainable natural language processing (NLP) company that builds highly accurate and fast AI systems. Under his leadership, Asentio was recognized by Accenture and the Rehumanize Institute as a startup leading sustainable AI in Stockholm. The company also secured wins and top places at prestigious startup competitions like Venture Cup and Guldraven. Zach also has professional experience working for a Fortune 100 company within cloud engineering, cybersecurity, solutions architecture, and recruiting. He holds a BS in Computer Information Systems and an MBA from Quinnipiac University, and has also pursued an MS in Cloud and Network Infrastructures at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. Outside of work, Zach’s two biggest passions are baseball and sustainability. Most recently he played baseball in Scotland and consults for climate action organizations. #entrepreneurship #entrepreneurs #startups #AI #thinkengagethrive #philmasiello
