Jesse Alton is an entrepreneur and strategy consultant specializing in product management, sales, and design. As the CEO of Virgent AI, he helps organizations transition from being AI-curious to AI-enabled, focusing on the People, Processes, and Technology involved. Jesse has supported over 100 successful efforts, with growth strategy, product management, AI, discovery, and modernization and helped secure over $200,000,000 in new revenue for the sales teams he's part of. He openly collaborates with many other founders in the DMV, and previously led Strategy and AI at Fearless, a Baltimore-based digital services integrator. Outside of work, he is an avid trail-runner, traditional archer, and triathlete, and he currently co-chairs the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Open Metaverse Interoperability (OMI) group, contributing to the development of open standards for the web.