Yuying Chen-Wynn is the current Global Leader, Strategic AI at CohnReznick, leading AI Transformation, and the former Head of AI at PEAK6, where she led everything Generative AI across buy, build, invest, and risk manage for a multi-billion-dollar family of companies. Before that, she was Chief Product Officer at Barnes & Noble Education and has spent over 20 years building products—13 of those building AI products in the wild across Big Tech, FinTech, and EdTech.

She’s been deep in the GenAI trenches long before it was trendy—painfully hacking together real products while the tools themselves were still duct-taped together. Her career started in computer vision, back when AI was barely pronounceable, after she accidentally got into MIT just trying to get to Boston (true story).