One such name of visionary leadership with experience in these excess AI times is Helen Fu Thomas, Co-founder of AnyQuest. MBA from UC Berkeley Haas Business School, Helen embarked on making a name in the tech world with passion ablaze to create a difference. Her early experiences in Silicon Valley, particularly at LeapFrog, amazed her with profound respect for the intersection of technology and learning, preparing her for her shining future to soar.
Throughout more than two decades, Helen has operated in various rooms in the tech realm, such as EdTech, consumer products, robots, gaming, and SaaS, where she gained deep experience and understanding. Becoming a CEO at DMAI is the ultimate endorsement of her capability to start firms at the bleeding frontier of AI innovation.
Under her leadership, DMAI was an international pioneer in artificial intelligence, making social utility through innovative ventures like the Animal Island Learning Adventure (AILA) Preschool Learning System.
Far more importantly, Helen’s inspiring leadership found international acclaim, success of DMAI at the prestigious Cannes Neuron’s Award for Creative AI being a testament.
Helen led the charge in pioneering in breakthrough solutions revolutionizing connectivity and interactivity in conference rooms and classrooms throughout the United States. In July 2023 Helen’s work life reached its highest point as she established AnyQuest. Collaborating with Dmitri once more, AnyQuest was an enabler of AI democratization, where no-code and middleware platform for enterprise AI assistants and agents to be developed for organizational knowledge workers big and small. AnyQuest can make a platform bring content, teachers and learners from all fields. Helen continues, “Teachers only have a certain amount of bandwidth they can provide to each student, and so the AI assistant can supplement and respond to any question students have on the curriculum content.”
Helen’s never one to play by the rules and she’s more than willing to bring disrupiton technology solutions to the fore.
Helen’s great insights are due to her greater insight into the customer experience and her insane passion for fixing things through gut-instinct innovation. Helen is a marketing generalist who reads technology the way the user experiences it and uses go-to-market strategies with a multi-dimensional playbook, which she has described as the 4Ps + 4Cs.
She believes that entrepreneurs ought not to count on other individuals in leading them and ought never to let themselves be carried away with the functionality of technology. Their day-to-day work is to make solution-based decisions while they engage with their target base and stay one step ahead of the competition in terms of technology, winning customers, and building brands.
Helen states that AI, just like all the past tech revolutions from computer to internet, mobile and cloud, is dramatic and sudden. Her company, AnyQuest, is tiny boat in the enormous wave and she has the majority of her work keeping it on the right track and sailing through successfully.
