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Built for institutional investors.

Our founders spent their careers at the intersection of capital markets and technology. They built Alpha Intelligence Labs because they knew firsthand what investment offices were missing.

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Founding Team

The team behind the platform.

Combined decades of experience building and operating data and technology systems inside the institutions our clients serve.

Ken
Ken Akoundi, PhD
Chief Executive Officer
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Ken leads Alpha Intelligence Labs with a singular mission: to help investment offices build AI-native, architecture-first platforms that make data, systems, and people work as one. Known for his thought leadership on "operational alpha" and the future of AI in investing, Ken is widely recognized as a voice for pragmatic innovation in the institutional ecosystem. Before founding Alpha Intelligence Labs, Ken founded Cordatius to help long-term investors modernize their technology foundations. A former risk manager and strategist for global investment firms, Ken brings over two decades of experience bridging the gap between capital markets and technology. His career spans senior roles at Optima Fund Management, Deutsche Bank, Opera Solutions, and a Protégé Partners spin-off, where he built tools and frameworks to improve portfolio construction, risk oversight, and operational intelligence. He holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from New York University.
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Zeki Mokhtarzada
Chief Technology Officer
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Zeki Mokhtarzada is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and mentor with a track record of building and scaling transformative technology ventures. He co-founded Webs.com, one of the internet's first do-it-yourself website builders (acquired by Vistaprint), and Truebill, the personal finance app that became a category leader before being acquired by Rocket Companies. Zeki has served as CTO at both Webs and Tenovos, where he led global engineering and product teams, and he continues to advise early-stage startups through his strategic consulting practice. Beyond his business ventures, he is deeply engaged in philanthropy and community building, serving on the boards of the One America Movement and the Next Wave Muslim Initiative. He holds dual degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Maryland.
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Devon Holt
Head of Product
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Devon Holt leads product at Alpha Intelligence Labs with a focus on turning complex institutional requirements into software that actually gets used. As Head of Product, she owns the platform roadmap and drives cross-functional coordination across engineering, research, and design, ensuring every new capability is built with precision and institutional relevance. She works directly with CIOs and investment teams to surface the operational challenges that matter most, then translates those needs into structured product requirements and repeatable workflows. Devon brings discipline and clarity to a product space that demands both: institutional investors require software that is reliable, auditable, and purposeful. Her work spans platform strategy, launch coordination, and the day-to-day execution that keeps a fast-moving team aligned and accountable.
Advisory Board

Advisors who have led from the inside.

Our advisors have served as Chief Investment Officers of state pension funds and led investment operations at some of the largest institutional pools in the country.

Tom
Tom Tull
Former CIO, Employees Retirement System of Texas ($36B)
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Tom Tull brings over four decades of institutional investment leadership to the Alpha Labs Advisory Board. As former Chief Investment Officer of the $36 billion Employees Retirement System of Texas, he oversaw a globally diversified portfolio across public and private markets and built one of the most respected internal investment teams in the U.S. public plan community. A long-time advocate for operational efficiency and innovation in pension management, Tom continues to advise asset managers and allocators through his roles with Star Mountain Capital, AIF Global, and the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System. His deep governance expertise and understanding of long-term investor needs provide critical insight into how Alpha Labs' AI-native technology can modernize institutional operations and decision-making.
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Melissa Waller
President, AIF Institute. Former Deputy Treasurer, NC Department of State Treasurer ($90B+)
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Melissa Waller serves on the Alpha Labs Advisory Board, bringing extensive experience in investment governance, institutional education, and sustainable finance. As President of the AIF Institute and former Deputy Treasurer and Chief of Staff for the North Carolina Department of State Treasurer, she has overseen more than $90 billion in assets and led national programs connecting fiduciary best practices with innovation. Melissa's leadership in advancing ESG integration, investment education, and board governance across the global allocator community uniquely positions her to help guide Alpha Labs' mission to empower investment offices with intelligent, transparent, and efficient technology.
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Dominic Garcia
Chief Pension Investment Strategist, CBRE. Former CIO, New Mexico PERA ($16B+)
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Dominic Garcia joins the Alpha Labs Advisory Board with deep experience in pension strategy, risk management, and institutional portfolio design. As Chief Pension Investment Strategist at CBRE Investment Management, former Chief Investment Officer of the New Mexico Public Employees Retirement Association, and Senior Alpha Manager at State of Wisconsin Investment Board, Dominic has overseen multi-asset portfolios at organizations exceeding $100 billion and implemented forward-looking alpha-beta separation frameworks for sustainable performance. His focus on governance and risk-driven portfolio construction aligns with Alpha Labs' vision of transforming how investment offices analyze, manage, and act on data through AI-native architectures.
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Kyle Delaney
Former President and CCO, Bridgewater Associates
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Kyle Delaney joins the Alpha Labs Advisory Board after a distinguished career leading commercial strategy and client partnerships at the world's largest hedge fund. As former President and Chief Commercial Officer of Bridgewater Associates, Kyle oversaw global client, marketing, and institutional relationship management, building trusted partnerships across sovereign wealth funds, pensions, and endowments. His prior leadership roles at Deutsche Asset Management, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley give him unique perspective on how investment organizations adopt technology to drive scale, insight, and engagement. At Alpha Labs, Kyle's experience will help guide the firm's positioning, outreach, and alignment with the evolving needs of CIOs and asset owners.
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Dr. Chase Cunningham
CSO, Demo-Force. Former Navy Cryptologist and Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
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Dr. Chase Cunningham, known globally as DrZeroTrust, brings to the Alpha Labs Advisory Board two decades of cybersecurity and strategic technology experience critical to safeguarding next-generation investment infrastructures. A former Navy cryptologist and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, he has advised leading enterprises and government agencies on Zero Trust architectures, threat intelligence, and AI-driven security frameworks. Now serving as Chief Strategy Officer at Demo-Force and advisor to multiple cybersecurity firms, Chase helps Alpha Labs integrate rigorous security design into its AI-native platform, ensuring institutional investors can adopt automation and intelligence with confidence and resilience.
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Andrew Palmer
Former CIO, Maryland State Retirement and Pension System ($74B)
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Andrew Palmer joins the Alpha Labs Advisory Board with more than four decades of experience leading complex public investment programs and advancing governance-driven portfolio strategy. As the former Chief Investment Officer of the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System, he stewarded a $74 billion, multi-asset portfolio, expanded internal management capabilities, and built one of the most collaborative and resilient investment teams in the public plan community. His leadership earned national recognition, including the AI-CIO Lifetime Achievement Award, Institutional Investor Visionary Award, Markets Group Strategy Award, and inclusion in the DEIC Power 100, for his commitment to thoughtful risk management, talent development, and long-term planning. Prior to Maryland, Andrew served as Deputy CIO and Director of Fixed Income for the Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System and spent two decades in senior fixed-income roles at ASB Capital Management. His deep experience in governance, risk-adjusted portfolio design, and organizational leadership provides essential insight as Alpha Labs builds AI-native systems to support the next generation of investment office infrastructure.
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Yury Dubrovsky, CFA
Former Chief Risk Officer at Lazard Ltd & Lazard Asset Management
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Yury Dubrovsky joins the Alpha Labs Advisory Board with more than three decades of leadership in institutional risk management, quantitative analytics, and financial technology. Until 2023, he served as Managing Director and Chief Risk Officer of Lazard Ltd. and Head of Global Risk Management & Quantitative Analysis at Lazard Asset Management, where he and his global teams oversaw all aspects of risk across equity and fixed income portfolios spanning both traditional and alternative investments, and directed the quantitative analysts supporting portfolio construction, research, and attribution analytics. During his 18 years at Lazard Asset Management, Yury built their independent investment oversight infrastructure from scratch, and he and his team oversaw portfolio construction of over 150 distinct strategies across various asset classes. Earlier in his career, Yury was Global Head of Market Risk Management for Emerging Markets and G20 Credit Products at Credit Suisse First Boston and Global Head of Exposure Management at Deutsche Bank AG, following quantitative and technology roles at J.P. Morgan & Co. and AT&T. He holds an MBA in Finance from St. John's University and an MS (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering from Kiev Polytechnic University, and is a member of the CFA Institute, the Global Association of Risk Professionals, and the Greenwich Economic Forum. Today, as a senior advisor at FINBOURNE Technology & Menos AI, Yury focuses on modern data management and investment analytics infrastructure. That experience aligns directly with Alpha Labs' mission to transform how investment offices analyze, manage, and act on data through AI-native architectures.

mission

Build the intelligent infrastructure that institutional investment offices need to manage complexity, preserve knowledge, and generate better outcomes for the people who depend on them.

vision

A world where every dollar entrusted to institutional investors is managed with the full power of modern technology, where fiduciaries spend their time on judgment and stewardship, not administrative burden.