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Tiger Huang

AI Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE), AI Product, and Digital Transformation leader. Hands-on-keyboard AI leader with a passion for solving challenging and unique AI problem statements. Extensive experience in changing Fortune 500 companies’ profitability and growth trajectories using AI, technology, and tech-enabled initiatives.

Key Results

  • Built a team of Forward Deployed AI Product Managers (AI Solution Managers) to solve $100M+ AI problem statements with teams of engineers and data scientists, drive 70 net promoter score, and convert customers to multi-year production contracts.
  • Led transformation teams across North America, Asia, and Europe that drove a 10,000+ strong global technology organization to execute hundreds of initiatives totaling $650M EBIT in value.
  • Built a secure, HIPAA compliant referral management and analytics tool for health systems and providers. The tool served one million patients leading to better transition of care and patient outcomes.

Professional Experience

Jan 2023 — Dec 2025 Redwood City, CA

Senior Director, AI Solution, AI Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE)

C3.ai, Inc. (Ticker: AI)

Domain leader for C3’s 0 to 1 AI Products, working on the customers’ most challenging custom AI problem statements. Directly led a team of 16 AI Solution Managers in RWC HQ and scaled the global team to 80+. Each AI Solution Manager led teams of Data Scientists and FDEs to build highly custom 0 to 1 AI products for customers in manufacturing, renewable energy, retail, and healthcare. Collaborated closely with Sales, Customer Success, Applications, and Platform in the customer lifecycle.

  • Led the team to build a new AI-native field maintenance mobile app that puts a team of AI Agents in the hands of field workers. Voice-based AI Agents allow field workers to maintain full protective gear while engaging with a full feature predictive maintenance system.
  • Led the team to improve a large EV manufacturer’s battery manufacturing. Trained ML models on 2B+ rows of data and identified valuable physics insights that increased yield, for which every 0.5% is worth $100M+.
  • Led the team to build the AI product that increases the useful life of Bloom Energy’s Hydrogen Fuel Cells, which is a physicochemical process and a complex system of inter-related variables. Trained physics-informed models and configured the Optimizer to increase life, power, and efficiency.
  • Managed teams that built AI products including Agentic AI for Quoting, Agentic AI for Airport Ramps, Agentic AI for Redaction, Pricing Optimization, and Schedule Optimization.
Jan 2022 — Present San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Angel Investor & Advisor to Tech Company CEOs

Independent Advisory

  • Advised a Chinese 3D printing unicorn, Farsoon (Ticker: 688433.SH), on strategic topics including governance process, organizational design, growth strategy, and M&A strategy.
  • Invested in and advised an aerospace focused SPAC on topics including raising $7M of at-risk capital, target scanning, acquisition strategy, and investor roadshow.
  • Invested in Lilo Shop (GSB alum), Beaming Health (GSB alum), and Fortuna Health (a16z-led seed round).
Jan 2016 — Dec 2021 New York, NY

RTS Senior Vice President / Associate Partner

McKinsey & Company

Leader in a dozen comprehensive, multi-year tech-enabled transformation programs in multiple industries and geographies. Partnered with C-level executives, especially CIOs and CTOs, from Fortune 500 companies to achieve ambitious growth and efficiency targets ranging from $80M EBIT to $650M EBIT. Select experiences below:

  • Led three McKinsey teams spread across North America, Asia, and Europe that drove a 10,000+ strong global technology organization to create hundreds of initiatives adding up to $650M EBIT.
  • Led a company-wide effort to build a multi-year, billion-dollar technology roadmap that supports $1B+ EBIT of growth and efficiency initiatives for a global P&C insurer.
  • Led a $180M EBIT COVID-driven global supply chain & production response involving 100+ sites for a global industrial company. In addition, rapidly adapted the effort from focusing on cost to efficient growth, as COVID shocks turned into a demand boom.
  • Led an $80M EBIT growth and efficiency effort for an iconic media company. Initiatives included optimizing digital marketing and big data analytics on sales and distribution.
Jan 2013 — Dec 2016 New York, NY

Product & Ops Lead & Co-founder

MedText

Built innovative technology products within the New York technology startup ecosystem. Hired and managed a team of software engineers. Managed all aspects of the business from sales to product development.

  • Built a secure, HIPAA compliant referral management and analytics tool for health systems and providers. The tool served nearly one million patients leading to better transition of care and patient outcomes.
  • Negotiated and launched paid pilots with two health systems that achieved excellent results – 80%+ increase in successful transition of care and potential doubling patient volume for specialist practices.
Jan 2009 — Dec 2013 New York, NY

Engagement Manager

McKinsey & Company

Advised leading financial services and pharmaceutical companies. One of three Business Analysts in New York to receive an offer for a direct promotion to Associate, a post-MBA role.

  • Built a Monte-Carlo simulation that combines pharmaceutical clinical development, corporate finance, and mathematics to predict the probability of success, NPV, and potential clinical costs for a billion-dollar R&D pipeline. The simulation informed a series of industry shaping spin-offs and reorganizations.
  • Built a simulation that informs the impact to revenue, market share, and NPV for different personalized medicine research in Multiple Sclerosis. The client’s personalized medicine research based on decisions using the simulation continues today.
  • Led the effort to build the inorganic growth strategy for a large pharmaceutical company. The strategy informed $1B of capital deployment in the following years.

Insights & Memos

Coming soon by Tiger Huang

AI-Native Biotech: Building the Next Generational Global AI Company

A strategic blueprint defining the AI-native biotech of the future—operating with just 10% of traditional headcount by deploying goal-directed agent swarms across trial protocols, data-integrity diligence, and global licensing.

#AI-NativeBiotech#CorporateStrategy#AgenticSwarms#BiotechSourcing
by Tiger Huang

Beating AI Cost Inflation: The Performance-Price Efficient Frontier

An analysis of rising commercial API pricing, tokenizer modifications, reasoning tokens overhead, and agentic loop volume multipliers, establishing the Performance-Price Efficient Frontier to manage enterprise compute spend.

#AICostInflation#EfficientFrontier#APIPricing#AgenticWorkflows
by Tiger Huang

The Evolution of AI Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE)

A practitioner-level analysis of the FDE landscape across Palantir, C3 AI, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Cloud, detailing organizational structures, the Build-Prove-Generalize loop, and optimal operating models.

#AIStrategy#ForwardDeployedEngineering#EnterpriseAI#ProductManagement
by Tiger Huang

Agentic OCFO (Office of the CFO) System Architecture

A skills-driven agentic architecture designed to augment and simulate professional labor in the Office of the CFO, utilizing local-machine access to bypass centralized integrations and accelerate time-to-value.

#OfficeoftheCFO#AgenticArchitecture#Security&Guardrails#EnterpriseAI
by Tiger Huang

Tiger’s Early 2026 AI Observations

An operator's framework for capital and talent allocation in early 2026: navigating polarized SaaS narratives, inside-vs-outside the model trade-offs, and pragmatic high-ROI growth and cost-reduction opportunities.

#AIStrategy#CapitalAllocation#Insidevs.OutsideModel#OperationalEfficiency

Coding Projects

Financial Analyst Skills

A modular financial analysis toolkit designed for AI agents. It automates intrinsic DCF (Discounted Cash Flow) valuation workflows by converting raw company earnings reports and PDFs into structured financial models.

Key Features

  • Earnings PDF Parsing: Standardizes the extraction of raw financial figures and metrics from corporate reports.
  • Intrinsic DCF Valuations: Computes equity value per share by adjusting enterprise value for net debt, non-operating assets, and share counts.
  • Agent Skill Integration: Formats outputs cleanly as modular skills that can be easily plugged into agentic workflows.

Offboarding SME Clone

A Python-based agentic system designed to clone the communication style and technical knowledge of a departing subject matter expert (SME). It helps teams retain vital institutional knowledge during employee handovers and transitions.

Key Features

  • Style Cloning: Replicates a developer’s communication tone and conversational structure using historical communication patterns.
  • Knowledge Digestion: Parses codebases, internal documentation, and logs to construct a queryable technical knowledge base.
  • Handover Continuity: Minimizes knowledge loss and provides team members with an interactive way to query offline expertise.

Biz Doc Creation

An automated proposal generation pipeline designed to draft high-quality business proposals. It replicates the structural depth, executive language, and strategic framing used in top-tier consulting firms to output client-ready drafts in seconds.

Key Features

  • Partner-Level Drafting: Automatically structure executive summaries, situational analyses, and strategic frameworks from raw bullet points.
  • Polished Compiling: Directly compiles generated plans into professionally formatted Word and PDF documents.
  • Consistent Layouts: Employs clean typography, aligned grids, and structured tables to ensure high visual presentation quality.

Synthetic Feedback Panel

An AI-driven user experience evaluation framework designed for rapid product and presentation testing. It instantiates a diverse panel of synthetic personas to critique ideas, slides, and wireframes, simulating user feedback before real-world launches.

Key Features

  • Diverse Personas: Instantiates ten distinct synthetic personas, each evaluating designs against distinct user baselines, experiences, and backgrounds.
  • Immediate Critique: Generates structured, constructive reviews on presentations, mockups, and software interfaces in real-time.
  • Product Diligence: Helps identify potential UX friction, presentation gaps, and usability pitfalls prior to user-facing releases.

Bluefin AI Demo

A zero-dependency presentation framework designed for builders to share highly polished, interactive showcases of advanced products and AI models. This lightweight template runs directly in the browser.

Key Features

  • Zero-Dependency Core: Pure semantic HTML5 and vanilla CSS3 styling that loads instantly without any build setups or external library dependencies.
  • Fluid Layouts: Clean spacing, grid arrangements, and micro-interactions optimized for professional slide presentations.
  • Showcase Components: Ready-to-use template cards designed to display technical product demonstrations, code snippets, and results elegantly.

Tiger Transformer

A specialized transformer model trained to standardize varied financial statement line items (Balance Sheet and Income Statement) into a consistent schema, facilitating automated financial analysis.

Key Features

  • Line Item Standardization: Translates non-standardized balance sheet and income statement row labels into standard accounting items.
  • Financial NLP Training: Fine-tuned on financial nomenclature to resolve naming discrepancies across diverse corporate filing styles.
  • Analysis Ready: Accelerates financial pipeline throughput by eliminating manual label mapping and schema matching steps.