Mark Montgomery

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I am the founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of KYield, Inc., and the first person to…

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  • U.S. Federal Chief Information Officers (CIO) Council Graphic

    Board Member

    U.S. Federal Chief Information Officers (CIO) Council

    Disaster and Humanitarian Relief

    I have worked behind the scenes for over two decades advising agencies, policy makers, universities and others on knowledge systems, briefly serving on the U.S. CIO KM WG as the only non-government employee. I quickly determined that meaningful progress from within the CIO groups would be more difficult than our work with Kyield as a private business and citizen. We were told that we impacted the post Katrina effort to place a national knowledge system on the White House agenda for the first…

    I have worked behind the scenes for over two decades advising agencies, policy makers, universities and others on knowledge systems, briefly serving on the U.S. CIO KM WG as the only non-government employee. I quickly determined that meaningful progress from within the CIO groups would be more difficult than our work with Kyield as a private business and citizen. We were told that we impacted the post Katrina effort to place a national knowledge system on the White House agenda for the first time. Members of the 9/11 commission, DoD, and Congress have thanked me for related efforts, particularly relating to crisis prevention.

  • City of Leavenworth, Washington Graphic

    Chairman of Village Promotions

    City of Leavenworth, Washington

    - 2 years

    Economic Empowerment

    Elected chair of the promotions arm and board of the Chamber of Commerce for the Bavarian village of Leavenworth, WA in my early 20s shortly after my wife and I opened a business. While I have served on many regional and national boards since, this experience stands out due to the large number of independent business owners, each with their own views and interests, and the international cultural exchanges we hosted from all over the world.

  • Choice Hotels International Graphic

    Region 9 Board Member

    Choice Hotels International

    - 1 year 1 month

    Nominated and elected to the board for franchisees covering the western United States related to an executive management turn-around contract representing a private asset management company.

  • Spearhead and facilitator

    New Mexico Junto Club (Tech CXOs)

    - Present 4 years 10 months

    Economic Empowerment

    The New Mexico Junto Club is a peer-to-peer group that meets monthly to discuss ways we can help each other and by extension the tech cluster and economy in New Mexico.

  • Thunderbird School of Global Management Graphic

    Innovation and Business Plan Judge for MBA students

    Thunderbird School of Global Management

    - 2 years 1 month

    Education

    Thunderbird had an annual innovation contest during the period I was involved with the University. They invited me to serve as an innovation judge for two years (2004 / 2005).

  • Columnist - Applied AI

    Computerword Magazine

    - 8 months

    Education

    I wrote a column for Computerworld Magazine on applied artificial intelligence. It was an unpaid/volunteer effort. Example of one of the monthly articles: https://kyieldos.com/2015/03/20/recent-trends-in-artificial-intelligence-algorithms-2/

Publications

  • Safe, Productive, Efficient, Accurate, and Responsible (SPEAR) AI Systems

    KYield, Inc.

    Extensive research paper on the many challenges in LLMs, efforts to improve them, and at the end present our KOS as a prime example of a SPEAR AI system

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  • What is an EAI OS? And why they are becoming essential

    KYield, Inc.

    White paper on enterprise AI systems, and our KOS

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  • Top Ten Obstacles to Successful Enterprise AI

    Cognitive World

    A summary of obstacles from our engagement with hundreds of leading organizations surrounding the topic of enterprise AI.

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  • Ascension to a Higher Level of Performance: The Kyield OS: A Unified AI System

    Kyield

    An e-book for customers and prospective customers of Kyield on the history and science behind the Kyield OS, how the system can be deployed in generic form to achieve a Continuously Adaptive Learning Organization (CALO), and industry-specific use cases with description of functionality in the system.

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  • Applied artificial intelligence: Mythological to neuroanatomical

    Computerworld

    For my new blog (2/2015) 'AI Applied' at Computerworld. This is the first article of a three part series exploring the depths of artificial intelligence and machine learning in 2015.

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  • Plausible Scenarios For Artificial Intelligence in Preventing Catastrophes

    Kyield

  • Unified Network Operating System With Adaptive Data Management Tailored to Each Entity Biotech, Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare, and Life Sciences

    Kyield

    Kyield is a massively scalable distributed operating system (OS) tasked to provide optimal yield of executable knowledge across large enterprise networks, with adaptive data management tailored to each entity, and predictive analytics streamed on a continuous basis. Kyield acts as the automated brains for neural networks (NN) with semi-automated control modules that augment human work with artificial intelligence. In this paper, I demonstrate how Kyield is poised to provide critical technology…

    Kyield is a massively scalable distributed operating system (OS) tasked to provide optimal yield of executable knowledge across large enterprise networks, with adaptive data management tailored to each entity, and predictive analytics streamed on a continuous basis. Kyield acts as the automated brains for neural networks (NN) with semi-automated control modules that augment human work with artificial intelligence. In this paper, I demonstrate how Kyield is poised to provide critical technology for optimizing NNs across the life science and healthcare ecosystems.

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  • Fear of Artificial Intelligence vs. the Ethics and Art of Creative Destruction

    Wired Innovation Insights

    Story telling format from discussions at Santa Fe Institute on related complexity theory applied to current fear of artificial intelligence vs. the need for innovation and reforms through creative destruction.

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  • Diagnosing Columbia

    Employ a biological and historical context to understand the political and economic challenges facing the U.S. with recommended therapy.

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  • Legacy of Japanese Earthquake: Moral Imperative to Prevent a Future Fukushima Crisis

    Kyield

    An overview of information to date on the human and organizational causes of the Fukushima reactor meltdowns with recommendations on crisis prevention in the future regardless of industry or sector. Consolidates organizational structures, regulatory, governance, data governance, predictive applications, auditing and reporting.

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  • Best of Kyield blog -- index

    Kyield

    An index of the best articles and essays on the Kyield blog with ratings.

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  • Optimizing Knowledge Yield in the Digital Workplace -- A new system design for thriving in the data-intensive universe

    Kyield

    Kyield is a recently patented system that can provide individuals, groups, and organizations the ability to tailor the quality and quantity of data to their specific needs in a continually adaptable manner, thus enabling yield management. The Kyield system represents a breakthrough in management of data in the digital workplace environment.

    When deployed system-wide in organizations, Kyield can be accurately described as a complex adaptive organizational operating system (CAOOS). 1 2…

    Kyield is a recently patented system that can provide individuals, groups, and organizations the ability to tailor the quality and quantity of data to their specific needs in a continually adaptable manner, thus enabling yield management. The Kyield system represents a breakthrough in management of data in the digital workplace environment.

    When deployed system-wide in organizations, Kyield can be accurately described as a complex adaptive organizational operating system (CAOOS). 1 2 Kyield has similarities to the human brain in managing neural networks, although in comparatively primitive form.

    The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, it briefly describes how the digital workplace evolved in an incremental manner. Second, it discusses related structural technical and economic challenges for individuals and organizations in the digital workplace. Lastly, it summarizes how Kyield’s novel approach can serve to provide exponential performance improvement.

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  • Diabetes Use Case Scenario

    Kyield

    A use case scenario in story telling format published as a companion to our Kyield health care platform. Most of the world's teaching hospitals, life science companies, HC policy makers, and health care organizations have consumed this work, with considerable positive feedback, which is much appreciated.

    Other authors
    • With Russell Borland
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  • Systemic failures, by design

    truthout

    An op-ed on the failure and need for the U.S. to adopt state-of-the-art knowledge systems to prevent systemic crises. Positive feedback on this article included members of the 9/11 commission, which was very much appreciated.

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  • Hurricane Ridge Blizzard; Presidents Day Weekend, 1977

    Summitpost.org

    A first-person non-fiction story about a notable backpacking trip into the Olympic National Park during my senior year of high school.

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  • Unleash the Innovation Within

    Kyield

    The first substantial white paper published by Kyield following the core patent application, which became among the most popular in enterprise software and organizational management--tens of thousands of downloads by individuals in the majority of large organizations worldwide.

    Other authors
    • Russell E. Borland
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  • Decision-making in the digital age

    Altassets

    Private equity investing is undoubtedly a data-intensive activity. And yet most firms and their investors do not have adequate systems in place to convert all that information into knowledge to help make the right decisions, says Initium Capital’s Mark Montgomery. Here, he explains why the industry should increase its focus on knowledge system architecture.

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  • The role of institutional capital in early-stage venturing: 2003 and beyond

    Altassets

    Many investors and entrepreneurs have lost faith in US venture capital. LPs may point the finger at the industry, but they themselves are not without blame, says Initium Capital's Mark Montgomery. Institutional capital still has an important role to play in funding early-stage technology businesses, he argues, but it must be invested in a more discriminate manner.

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  • Initium Capital Fund I, L.P. PPM

    Initium, LLC.

    A Private Placement Memorandum for a $250 million early stage venture fund, which led to multiple offers of $20 million investments, and the label of global emerging leader in VC by a good portion of global limited partners.

  • Phases of Internet Commerce

    Journal of Hospitality Information Technology

    A practioner's article for an academic journal on e-commerce trends taken largely from lessons learned in our incubator during the 1990s.

  • Revenue Builders

    Hotel Solutions, Inc.

    A series of self-guided management workbooks designed and intended for use by SMEs but sold well in major corporations as well. Believe they were the first of their kind outside of a franchise system or corporate owned training system. Many businesses reported turn arounds using the tools, some reported financing from leading banks when the system was employed. Based entirely on actual use cases in the field in our consulting firm, RBs became the foundation of Virtual Franchise, our first…

    A series of self-guided management workbooks designed and intended for use by SMEs but sold well in major corporations as well. Believe they were the first of their kind outside of a franchise system or corporate owned training system. Many businesses reported turn arounds using the tools, some reported financing from leading banks when the system was employed. Based entirely on actual use cases in the field in our consulting firm, RBs became the foundation of Virtual Franchise, our first Internet venture spun out of the firm in 1996 which became a market leader.

    Other authors
    • Richard DeSantis
    • Russell Borland
  • Marketing Wheel

    World's Eye View on Hospitality Trends

    I was consulting at the time throughout the western U.S., having recently performed dozens of formal audits on markets suffering from the S&L crisis, and increasingly working with thought leaders in academia. Many of the assignments were lodging, hospitality, and communities. This journal based at NAU and working closely with Cornell and others, asked me to write an article for small and emerging business on the changing world of marketing with a particular focus on technology. In addition,…

    I was consulting at the time throughout the western U.S., having recently performed dozens of formal audits on markets suffering from the S&L crisis, and increasingly working with thought leaders in academia. Many of the assignments were lodging, hospitality, and communities. This journal based at NAU and working closely with Cornell and others, asked me to write an article for small and emerging business on the changing world of marketing with a particular focus on technology. In addition, they asked me to visually demonstrate the "marketing wheel", which can be seen on my blog here: http://kyield.wordpress.com/2010/09/18/the-enterprise-needs-a-new-marketing-wheel/

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Patents

  • Synthetic genius machine and knowledge creation system

    Filed US 16/547,271

    A multi-agent system searches digitally stored multi-media files of work products developed by highly intelligent and creative people, seeking specific thoughts, patterns, and sequences, which will be described with reference to FIGS. 1-3 b. The multiagent system builds a repository of genius behaviors, patterns and creative processes for the purpose of creating a synthetic genius machine. The preferred manner to communicate query responses is through a genius simulation by employing…

    A multi-agent system searches digitally stored multi-media files of work products developed by highly intelligent and creative people, seeking specific thoughts, patterns, and sequences, which will be described with reference to FIGS. 1-3 b. The multiagent system builds a repository of genius behaviors, patterns and creative processes for the purpose of creating a synthetic genius machine. The preferred manner to communicate query responses is through a genius simulation by employing algorithmic processing to be implemented classically, on quantum hardware or in a hybrid approach.

  • Modular system for optimizing knowledge yield in the digital workplace

    Issued US 8005778

    A networked computer system, architecture, and method are provided for optimizing human and intellectual capital in the digital workplace environment.

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Courses

  • Finance

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  • International Business

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  • MIT OCW - Single Variable Calculus

    18.01SC

  • Santa Fe Institute

    Frequent guest

  • Strategy

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Honors & Awards

  • Thank you letter from 9-11 Commission

    Senator Slade Gordon

    Following a discussion on the 9-11 Commission, final report and related work in crisis prevention, Senator Gordon emailed a note of thanks for my contributions.

Languages

  • French

    Limited working proficiency

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

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