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About Harry Glorikian

Harry Glorikian helps boards and CEOs make decisions about AI: what to hand over to it, what to keep, and who answers when it gets something wrong.

AI is moving from answering questions to taking action inside the business: drafting, approving, buying, deciding. That changes who is accountable when it is wrong, which skills people still need to keep, how much a company depends on one vendor, and how customers find it when their own AI does the shopping. Those decisions belong with management and the board, and most organizations have not made them yet.

He is a General Partner at Scientia Ventures, a Research Affiliate at the MIT Media Lab, and the author of four books on technology strategy and the future of business. For more than thirty years he has built, governed, and invested in companies at the intersection of emerging technology and business — learning firsthand what separates organizations that lead from the ones that follow.

Harry Glorikian delivering a keynote

At Scientia Ventures, Harry and his team invest in early to mid-stage technology companies across precision medicine, diagnostics, AI-driven healthcare, and computational biology. At the MIT Media Lab, his research focuses on how next-generation AI rewrites competitive strategy, workforce design, and governance. He has served as an independent director of two public diagnostics companies, including 18 years on one board, where he chaired the Compensation and HR Committee.

Before Scientia Ventures, Harry served as Entrepreneur-In-Residence at GE Ventures New Business Creation Group, where he co-founded DrawBridge Health and advised Evidation Health from its 2015 launch. Earlier he co-founded and ran Scientia Advisors as Managing Director — building it from the ground up into a globally recognized strategy consultancy for life science and healthcare innovators, acquired by Precision for Medicine in 2012. Before that, he spent seven years at PE Applied Biosystems in global business development, during a period when division revenues more than doubled to $1.6 billion.

He holds an MBA from Boston University, a bachelor’s degree from San Francisco State University, and five US patents, covering location-based internet services and blood sample collection and stabilization.

Harry Glorikian at MIT Media Lab

“The organizations that will define the next decade are the ones that understand AI is not a tool to be deployed — it is a layer to be governed.”

Harry has delivered keynotes and board briefings on technology, AI, and the future of business at TEDxBoston, the National Institutes of Health, and executive forums across financial services, technology, life sciences, and manufacturing. He has been quoted in Dow Jones, The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Science Magazine, CBS Evening News, and other major outlets.

“I have watched technology reshape one of the most complex, regulated industries in the world. What I learned there applies everywhere the stakes are real.”

Harry is the host of The Harry Glorikian Show, covering how AI and data are transforming industries, redefining competition, and changing what it means to lead. He is the author of four books:

Harry is available for selective board opportunities where AI oversight matters. He is separately available for speaking engagements and private leadership briefings. He works from Boston and San Francisco. Contact Harry to discuss a board or speaking opportunity.

Latest Book: The Invisible Interface

Harry’s latest book, The Invisible Interface: How AI Turns Intentions Into Actions—And Who Wins, explores how AI agents are redrawing the interface between businesses and their customers — and what leaders need to do about it. Endorsed by Don Norman (Author of The Design of Everyday Things) and GC Lionetti (Chief Commercial Officer, OpenAI). Explore The Invisible Interface.