Peter Piela Joins AI Foundry

AI Foundry, a leader in actionable intelligence, today announced that Peter Piela, Ph.D., joins as director of solution development to help drive growth and development.

In his new role, Piela will lead a team of designers and developers to define, implement and package AI Foundry’s agile solutions, incorporating contributions from technology partners and its engineering team.

Piela joins AI Foundry from Cray, Inc., where he was director of platform software R&D. Earlier management roles include vice president of software development at Terascala, vice president of product development at Segue Software and multiple positions at Aspen Technology. Piela earned a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

“Piela’s combination of deep technical expertise and strategic approach to product development makes him a great fit to lead the development efforts at AI Foundry,” said Sid Probstein, CTO and VP of professional services. “He will lead a team of world class developers to advance our state-of-the-art actionable intelligence platform and his leadership experience will be instrumental in propelling us forward to our next phase of growth.”