Martin Ouko

Head of Operations, AI/ML Lifecycle Management

TIAA

Martin Ouko currently leads the TIAA’s Global AI Operations consisting of a highly skilled team of Data Scientists and Engineers, tasked with designing, developing and productionizing elegant technology integrations and orchestrations that solve business problems and challenges of varying complexities.

Martin also serves as a Global Thought Leader and a Conference Speaker on Artificial Intelligence. His most recent engagements have included Walt Disney’s 2022 Blacks in Technology Conference Orlando Florida, where he delved on topics ranging from Generative AI to Imbedding AI on retirement technology and, The 2023 NY AI in Finance Summit in April where he spoke on Aligning AI Strategy with Organizational priorities.

While not tinkering with cutting edge technology, he moonlights as Adjunct Professor, training future business leaders on subjects matters ranging from Economics to Business Management Concepts at a local college. Outside industry, technology and academia, he serves on the board of Kiwimbi International, a Non-Profit organization dedicated to fundamentally altering the literacy culture in underserved communities around the world; one kid at a time.

In between these engagements, he can be found in the trees, sand bunkers or the rough, looking for his golf balls. And when he can’t find the fairways consistently, he prefers bringing together Charitable Organizations and philanthropists to bond over a good game under the banner of Prestige Invitational.

Martin also holds US and European patents on Osteobiologics and serves on FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) Arbitration Panel with jurisdictions both in Newark, NJ and New York City, NY.

Martin holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management with Finance concentration and a Minor in Management Systems and, a Master of Science Degree with specialty in Systems Analysis & Design, both from New Jersey Institute of Technology; the New Jersey Premier Technology & Research University