Mentors
LBS AI Lab mentors help teams define problems, make product decisions, build with AI-assisted tools, evaluate outputs, and iterate toward useful products
Academic lead
Academic lead
Clinical Professor of Management Science and Operations; Academic Director (MBA, MAM, EMBAG)
Kostis supports the academic direction of the Lab, connecting participant teams with rigorous AI, analytics, decision-making, and product learning
Mentors
Teams are supported by product and technical mentors through build sessions, product reviews, implementation guidance, and feedback cycles
Product Mentor
Product discovery, user feedback loops, and clearer positioning.
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Product Mentor
Tiffanie is a product leader with nearly 20 years in consulting and product strategy. She has built and launched digital products for brands like PayPal and Harley-Davidson, and has led and scaled high-growth product teams. She'll help pressure test your idea to clearly define the problem, users, and strategy to build an MLP (Minimum Lovable Product).
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Technical Mentor
Akshay leads product at a Series A startup in London, building AI-native consumer products. An Oxford MBA graduate, his background spans product management, data engineering and machine learning, with experience at ING Bank and Nokia. He’ll help teams sharpen their product ideas, design agentic AI workflows and turn early concepts into working products people love.
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Technical Mentor
Alessandro is an AI Developer at London Business School, where he builds agentic AI systems and works on applying emerging technologies to real business problems. His background spans AI, analytics, finance, and entrepreneurship, with experience building solutions for organizations including LBS and Harrods. He can help teams turn early ideas into practical solutions, particularly around AI, data, and product development.
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Technical Mentor
Former investment manager who led a US$2bn+ multi-asset team and founded two education companies, Flosendo and Eden. Ivan helps teams decide what to build, choose AI tools and test their product.
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Product Mentor
LBS MBA candidate with around five years in AI products, from data science at Grab to AI automation at an early-stage London startup. Shreyas helps teams develop their AI product, run simple experiments and learn from users.
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Technical Mentor
Technical reviews, implementation choices, and AI product shipping.
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Technical Mentor
Agentic engineering, prototype architecture, and build velocity.
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Product Mentor
Product discovery, user feedback loops, and clearer positioning.
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LBS AI Lab welcomes product, technical, and industry mentors who can help teams shape better AI products, navigate adoption, and build with confidence
