Teams succeed when alignment is achieved

Our purpose is to provide clear visibility into future results of today's decisions and actions. At Axion, our mission is to empower engineering leaders with the best decision intelligence platform, to strengthen decisions for maximum and efficient results

Leadership Team

Daniel is Axion's CEO and teaches Enterprise AI Strategy at Columbia Graduate School of Business. Prior to Axion, he led an engineering analytics team at McKinsey & Company. He holds degrees from Yale, Cambridge, and Columbia.

Daniel First

Founder & CEO

Rebecca is an experienced growth leader in the SaaS engineering digitization space. She has driven efficiency through digitization with engineering leaders at the world's largest automotive & aerospace OEMs.

Rebecca Trachtenberg

Founding VP of Revenue

Max has over a decade of Enterprise AI implementation experience, previously leading AI transformation initiatives at some of the world's largest manufacturers at Palantir Technologies. He has also led the deployment of AI models in sectors such as aerospace and banking, managing teams at QuantumBlack, McKinsey's machine learning arm.

Max Helzberg

Chief Commercial Officer

Ken is the former Global VP of Engineering at General Motors, where he worked for over 30 years. His previous roles included executive chief engineer of full-size and midsize vehicles, and global vehicle chief engineer for rear-wheel drive and performance vehicles. He also was a member of General Motors Internal Venture Capital Investment Board.

Ken Kelzer

Strategic Leadership

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Jeff is an experienced Automotive Industry executive focused on Business Development and Go-To-Market strategies for emerging software & new technology companies. After more than 35 years in the industry, Jeff retired in 2020 as President NA, Continental where he was responsible for Automotive Systems Group technology business development & customer engagement. He was a key member of the Global Leadership Team.

Jeff Klei

Strategic Leadership

Yann brings Natural Language Processing and Data Science leadership to Axion. Previously, at Afiniti, he oversaw the creation & productionization of enterprise machine learning models to predict customer behavior and optimize key ROI metrics.

Yann Bignier

VP Data Science R&D

Josh is Lead ML Engineer

Josh Clark

Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Luke is a software engineer, solutions architect, and technical delivery manager who specializes in building end-to-end analytics solutions. He previously led the technical delivery of multiple analytics platforms for enterprise clients at QuantumBlack and has a background in web application development.

Luke O'Neill

VP of Platform Engineering

Values We Live by

Collaboration & Empathy

All stakeholders' perspectives & needs are considered, respected, & understood when decisions are made.

Impact-oriented

Committed to excellence. Actively focus on delivering meaningful value to partners and the team backed by data. Plan for success and work backward.

Rebelliously Innovative

Constantly learning, growing, & enjoy finding creative solutions to problems. Break the rules & dare to question preconceived notions with new technologies.

Interdisciplinary

Weave together the best thinking & technologies from AI research, product, data-driven management, and engineering

Integrity

Consistent and uncompromising adherence to honesty, objectivity, & empathy