Team
The people behind N.A.I.L.
Executive Board
The students who run N.A.I.L. day to day.
Blake R. Steensland
Founder & President
Chase Merrell
Co-Founder & Vice President
Aaron Day
Chief Operating Officer
Sophia Rosselli
Chief Marketing Officer
Max Krehbiel
Chief Technology Officer
Charlie Gunther
Finance Director
Digvijay Chaudhari
Governance & Risk Director
Evan Tuesley
Membership Chair
Roan Ritzer
Director of Relations
This seat is open
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AI Specialists
The members hands on with the tools, building what N.A.I.L. ships, including Navi.
Cameron Koch
AI Specialist
Max Krehbiel
AI Specialist
Blake R. Steensland
AI Specialist
Aaron Day
AI Specialist
Samson Romano
AI Specialist
Faculty & Staff
The Neeley AI Forward team behind us.
Will Drover
Director, Neeley AI Forward
Professor & Department Chair, Entrepreneurship & Innovation. Dean's Advisor on AI & Digital Innovation.
Eric Arseneau
Associate Director, Neeley AI Forward
Associate Professor of Professional Practice. Assistant Chair, Entrepreneurship & Innovation.
Elijah Clark
Assistant Director, Neeley AI Forward
Instructor of Marketing. Director, Business Innovation Academy.
Zain Ali
Faculty, AI Forward
Associate Professor of Professional Practice, Information Systems & Supply Chain Management.
Beata Jones
Faculty, AI Forward
Professor of Professional Practice, BIS, Information Systems & Supply Chain Management.
Advisory Board
The industry leaders steering Neeley AI Forward, the initiative N.A.I.L. is the student arm of. Fall 2026.
Zain Ali
Board Chair
Associate Professor of Professional Practice, TCU
Scarlett Jazesf
Board Co-Chair
Vice President, HR Business Partner, Dell
Babar Bhatti
Prism · Dallas AI
Chief AI Officer, Prism. Co-Founder & Executive VP, Dallas AI.
Robby Dally
McKesson
Senior Director, Business Modernization
Lauren Edwards
Point B
Head of Strategy
Parrish Gunnels
MVB Financial Corp.
Chief Information Security Officer
John Nichols
PwC
Responsible AI Leader
Jackie Njoroge
McKesson
Vice President, Digital Transformation & Operational Excellence
John Porter
Albertsons
Corporate VP, Finance, Supply Chain Transformation
Deepak Seth
Gartner
Director Analyst, Data, Analytics & AI
AI Industry Fellows
Practitioners who bring what is actually happening in industry straight into Neeley. Fall 2026.
Madhurri Battu
Accenture
Senior Manager (Director), Software Engineering
Jon Campisi
Head of Strategy Operations, Google Data Centers
Zoya Fenn
Alcon
Mergers & Acquisitions Technology Integration Lead
David Garcia
CBRE
Sr. Enterprise Architecture
Lorena Tomás
Bitboundaire
CEO & Co-Founder
Erin Ostenson
Altero Group
President & Founder
Akhtar Saeed
Qaabil Associates
Independent Consultant
One exec seat is open
If you want to help run the club, read what the role involves and reach out to Roan Ritzer.