Ian Hook

Innovating with AI/GenAI to drive business value

Czechia

About

Bringing Operational Excellence to global matrixed companies by leading teams to deliver complex and transformational solutions. Experienced leading multi-million dollar AI projects with patents in NLP, Recommendation Engines and more. Delivered GenAI projects which transform business capabilities and enable faster, more effective product launches with richer insights and create bigger impact. Speaker and keynote speaker on AI, GenAI and Knowledge Management at events including Digital Health Conference, KM World, Mobile Monday, Mobile World Congress and more. But most importantly, I love getting things done.

Experience

  • Novartis (Full-time · 6 yrs)
    • Principal AI/GenAI
      Oct 2025 - Present · 10 mos

      Principal for AI/GenAI in the Novartis consulting group.

    • Director of Business Operations
      Jan 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 7 mos

    • Director of Knowledge Management and Insights Excellence
      Jan 2023 - Jan 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Leading KM and Insights strategy

  • Knowledge Management, Artificial Intelligence Manager at Accenture
    Jan 2016 - Jul 2020 · 4 yrs 7 mos

    Using Artificial Intelligence to make tangible impacts in Knowledge Management for Accenture's 400,000 people including: - Auto-tagging, auto-scrubbing, auto-locating content - Expertise location - Content Recommendations - Reducing KM friction (reducing time spent on manual tasks, reducing friction in knowledge sharing...) - etc.

  • Member of the Board at Lipa Learning
    2012 - Sep 2015 · 3 yrs 9 mos

    Board member of Lipa Learning. Head of Education, Business Development, Product, Marketing and Preschool. Creating an innovative curriculum of apps designed to disrupt the failing educational systems around the world.

  • Educational Specialist at EMTC - Czech, a.s.
    2012 - 2013 · 1 yr