Rudy Lai

About Me

Enterprise AI founder/CxO with 15+ years experience in AI.

I got my start in AI modelling brain cancer structures, then built AI trading systems @ Morgan Stanley + BofA. In 2019, I had the idea that you can build AI agents by combining search + chatbots. We did this for customer and CRM data @ Tactic (my Index Ventures backed startup). Today, I work on AI security at Snyk.

Things I do:

  • Team: Recruiting, alignment, mental health, diversity (lived in 3 cities + speaks 4 languages), leadership, pep talks
  • Sales: enterprise sales, key account management, MEDDPICC, outbound
  • Product: customer development, UX, launches
  • Marketing: positioning, vision marketing, copy, SEO, events and branding
  • Technology: AI, LLM, machine learning, React/Vue, High Performance Computing HPC, data pipelines
  • Domains: lead generation, sales, account based marketing, customer data platforms

Experience

2025

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Director, AI Security at Snyk

Building new capabilities, products, and revenue.

2020

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CEO and Co-founder of Tactic

In 2020, Jack and I bet on language models to transform how businesses work with unstructured data. Get answers, not search results. Little did we know we were building RAG agents years ahead.

Raised $5m from Index Ventures, built a team of 20+ Tacticians, and worked with 30+ amazing enterprise customers like Adobe, Capgemini, QAwolf, GoCardless and more.

2012 — 2019

Rudy Lai worked at Morgan Stanley.Rudy Lai worked at Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Managed P&L and delivered growth for AI products, ranging from building new teams to managing $100M+ ARR, at Morgan Stanley and Bank of America Merill Lynch.

Worked on dynamic pricing, CRM, personalisation, algorithmic trading + high performance computing. CS @ Imperial.