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Manoj Saxena serves on the Board of AI Global, a non-profit dedicated to promoting practical and responsible applications of Artificial Intelligence as well as an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches on the Design of Ethical AI Systems. Saxena is also a founding managing director of The Entrepreneurs’ Fund IV, a seed fund focused on B2B AI market with nine active investments.

Previously, he served as the first General Manager of IBM Watson, where his team built the first cognitive systems. Prior to IBM, Saxena successfully founded and sold two venture-backed software companies within a five-year span.

Recently, Saxena retired after serving six years as Chairman of the US Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, San Antonio.

An avid racing enthusiast, he has completed track, endurance and auto rally races around the world including 24-day Singapore-Malaysia-Thailand-Burma race, a 19-day Trans-America race, and a 10-day Madrid to Marrakesh race. Saxena holds a master’s degree in business administration from Michigan State University, and a master’s in management sciences from the Birla Institute of Technology & Science in Pilani, India.