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Tommaso Babucci

Tommaso Babucci

AI Strategy & Development — Ernst & Young

Day to day, I bring together a cross-functional team of strategists, developers, designers and marketers creating and scaling new AI narratives and offerings globally. The work ranges from product development and tech partnerships to AI training for a 120,000-person organization and speaking at industry events around the world. The mission: helping EY transform into an AI-native organization.

The journey started on the other side of the table, as one of EY's first GenAI developers building custom AI products for clients in consumer and automotive. Before that, a machine learning startup optimizing Amazon advertising. Once you learn to sell the car, you want to learn how to build it. That led to USC Marshall for a Master's in Business Analytics, where I still serve on the Board of Advisors.

But before the code, the consulting, the keynotes, there was a magazine. Moved from Milan to Duke University and ended up leading a 120-person creative team. That's where the instinct for storytelling and building new things rooted and grew.

Avid if inconsistent reader. Curiosity rabbit holes have taught me about tea ceremonies, regenerative agriculture, and Brazilian jiu-jitsu. My wife calls me her “personal ChatGPT”. I love to cook. Have worked and lived in Italy, the UK, and the US.

Skills

Designing how organizations adopt, scale, and change with AI. Not just the roadmap, but the hard decisions along the way: how to build and buy technology, designing the operating model, where AI changes the business model, and how to move a 120,000-person organization from AI-curious to AI-native. This is the work that gets me out of bed.

Enterprise AITransformationAI-Native OpsBusiness Model Design

Started as one of EY's first GenAI developers. Grown into a product owner, manager, and architect, now designing Service as a Software offerings. Shipped on both levels: enterprise scale and local vibecoded masterpieces.

Agentic ArchitectProduct ManagementService as a Software

The passion for creative work that started with leading a 120-person magazine never went away. Today it shows up in how AI narratives get shaped, how new AI offerings are taken to market, and how complex and new ideas are made accessible. Good strategy deserves good storytelling.

Creative DirectionNarrative DesignContent Strategy

Leading cross-functional and global teams where strategists, developers, designers, and marketers need to move in the same direction. Standing up new global programs and partnerships with leading AI firms from zero.

Cross-Functional LeadershipGlobal TeamsPartnership Development

Coaching and training consultants on how to reimagine work with AI. The love for teaching started as head TA for the statistics department at USC Marshall. Now leading workshops with Fortune 500 C-Suite and providing live trainings and e-learnings to a talent pool of 120,000 at EY.

AI TrainingWorkshop DesignExecutive Education

Writing, speaking, and teaching about AI at the intersection of strategy and practice. Publishing on LinkedIn, producing thought leadership content for the Office of the Consulting CTO and Global AI Leader, keynoting industry events, and guest lecturing at USC Marshall, Cambridge, Oxford, and the London School of Economics.

Public SpeakingAI WritingExecutive CommunicationsAcademic Teaching

Experience

Ernst & Young

2022 – Present

Americas Consulting – AI Market Activation Lead

Americas Consulting AI Strategy & Office of the Consulting CTO

Chief of Staff to the Global Consulting AI Leader

Manager

Senior Consultant

Intern

USC Marshall M.S.B.A.

2021 – 2022

Data Science and Big Data Strategy

  • Business Analytics Student Association President
  • Head Teaching Assistant for Statistics Department

OmniShopper

2021 – 2023

Data Science Advisor

  • Launched new AI offerings

Sellics

2020 – 2021

ML Strategic Account Manager

  • Podcaster

Duke University

2016 – 2020

B.S. in Economics, Psychology, and Innovation & Entrepreneurship

  • Editor in Chief of FORM Magazine
  • Published Economic Research

Contact

Always interested in conversations about AI strategy, creative technology, and the future of work. If something here resonated, let's talk.

LinkedIn tommaso@babucci.com
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