Ryan Khurana

Creator Tech | Media Theory | AI Policy

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

About

AI Strategy Leader | Early mover in Generative AI | Led cross-functional teams delivering $13M+ incremental revenue through innovative AI solutions | 5+ years scaling AI/ML teams from startup to enterprise | Published AI thought leader featured in Scientific American, Toronto Star, Financial Post, Telegraph, and numerous other popular and academic publications | Expertise: Multimodal AI, Team Leadership, Business Transformation

Experience

  • Lead, Agents and Applications at TwelveLabs
    Aug 2025 - Present · 1 yr

    Product Lead on AI video agents

  • Senior Advisor at Foundation for American Innovation
    Jan 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 7 mos

  • Lead, AI/ML at MLSE (Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Partnership)
    Jun 2023 - Jul 2025 · 2 yrs 2 mos

    - Conceptualized and led development of an innovative AI video search product using TwelveLabs’ multimodal embeddings and contrastive learning, receiving wide adoption among video producers and reducing production time by 90%+ - Lead enterprise-wide AI transformation integrating with cross-functional process redesign across sales, marketing, retail, F&B, and partnerships - Manage a cross-functional team comprised of data scientists, ML and MLOps engineers, and product managers

  • AI Consultant at Zesty
    Apr 2023 - Jun 2023 · 3 mos

    Developed an AdGPT that would agentically deliver ads in-world for metaverse experiences

  • Chief Of Staff and Head of Analytics at WOMBO.ai
    Jun 2021 - May 2023 · 2 yrs

    - Launched two viral AI mobile apps to cumulative 220M+ app downloads, pioneering commercial applications of generative AI technology before Dall-E and ChatGPT - Collaborated with Cohere on Urzas, an AI-generated card product that achieved 12M+ user interactions - Architected cost-effective cloud infrastructure for ML model deployment, reducing costs by 35% while maintaining positive margins - Partnered with Netflix for a major media campaign, conducting user research and defining product requirements that led to the development of first B2B text-to-image API