Seyfarth Shaw Creates Chief Data & AI Officer and Chief Innovation & Strategic Design Officer Roles
- Significance
- Medium
- Confidence
- Confirmed
Why this matters
Seyfarth Shaw is buying the talent to run AI at scale. A meaningful marker of where the firm's capability is heading.
Seyfarth appointed its first Chief Data & AI Officer (Byong Kim, former head of Seyfarth Labs) and first Chief Innovation & Strategic Design Officer (Zeynep Ersin), formalizing AI strategy at the C-suite level building on the firm's SeyfarthLean/Seyfarth Labs legacy.
- Significance
- Medium
- Source type
- Firm Press Release
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