Szilard Jakab
Digital Transformation Leader · AI-Native Builder

Szilard “Jaki”
Jakab

Co-founder & CPO · Chief AI Officer · advisor

I build scalable, AI-native ventures — and open enterprises to global scale.

Portrait of Szilard Jakab
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Years hands-on IT & global business
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At EPAM — the youngest Director at the time
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Ventures founded, led & advised
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Continents — US · APAC · EU markets
Delivered for · two decades, three continents Coca-Cola ·UBS Wealth ·Johnson & Johnson ·AstraZeneca ·MTV Networks ·Aldi ·Global Payments ·Expedia ·Diligent

A builder who turns blueprints into global scale.

Today I'm co-founder & visionary CPO of Digital One Technology Consulting — senior consulting plus a suite of enterprise-grade, EU-sovereign, AI-native products, as an official Anthropic partner. In parallel I'm co-founder & Chief AI Officer of ClearPass AI, leading defensive-AI strategy and product for critical environments, and digital-transformation advisor at ARTEMIS (an ALTEO company), steering strategy for a real-time energy-management & VPP platform and opening it to global partners.

Before that: a decade at EPAM Systems, rising from engineer to Director of Global Business in New York — the youngest at the time — driving new-logo growth and delivery for Fortune 500s including Coca-Cola, UBS Wealth Management, Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca and MTV Networks. Since then I've co-founded a global software-engineering group (MPS Verity), a consulting-&-technology group (ConsTech Global), and served as interim CIO and interim GM. Twenty years in, I still thrive on turning chaos into opportunity across the US, APAC and Europe.

Track record

2025 — now

Co-founder & Visionary CPO — Digital One

Senior consulting + an enterprise AI suite (governance, model intelligence, agent identity) — EU-sovereign, evidence-defensible, an official Anthropic partner. Expanding our European & global services.

2026 — now

Co-founder & Chief AI Officer — ClearPass AI

Leading defensive-AI strategy, product vision and execution — secure, high-performance capabilities that protect critical environments.

2024 — now

Digital Transformation Advisor — ARTEMIS / ALTEO

Steering digital strategy for a real-time energy-management & VPP platform — aligning product, data and cloud to scale renewables, and opening ARTEMIS to international partners. Previously interim GM & Head of Technology.

2021 — now

Co-founder & Global Head of Engineering — MPS Verity

Global software-engineering services — nearshore development centres and custom, end-to-end delivery for enterprises including Global Payments, Instructure, Diligent and Aldi.

2021 — now

CEO & Co-founder — ConsTech Global

Where consulting meets technology — innovation across blockchain, digital solutions in construction, retail and entertainment, globally.

2009 — 2019 · New York

Director, Global Business — EPAM Systems

Engineer to Director in a decade — the youngest at the time. New-logo growth, account management and delivery for Fortune 500s: Coca-Cola, UBS Wealth, J&J, AstraZeneca, MTV Networks, Expedia and Otsuka.

Strategy you can execute, delivery you can measure, evidence you can defend.

Twenty years of service blueprints taught me a few non-negotiables:

  • Build it to scale — or don't build it.
  • Blueprints before code; clean code and QA, always.
  • Global from day one.
  • AI-native, EU-sovereign, evidence-defensible.

Turn chaos into opportunity. — the way I've worked for two decades.

Boards, advisory & recognition

Advisory & interim leadership AdvisorARTEMIS (ALTEO) — digital-transformation advisor; former interim GM & Head of Technology. InterimProhuman — interim CIO; grew its international digital footprint (2021–2024).
Boards & partnerships BoardGlosdel Technologies & Monster Code Corporation — founder / board member. PartnerOfficial Anthropic partner — Claude / Claude Code partner badge, via Digital One.