Benjamin Hinson-Ekong
🚀 Head of GTM AI & Technology | Enterprise Product Vision & Agentic Strategy | AI Commercialization & Operations | Advisor to C-Suite & Boards | Bridging Technical Complexity & Business Value
I help organizations turn AI from isolated experiments into scalable business
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As Head of GTM AI & Technology at Bridge Partners, I focus on the intersection of AI commercialization, operating model design, governance, and delivery execution, helping organizations identify where AI creates value and building the systems required to realize it at My work spans strategy, commercialization, operations, delivery, and technology. On any given day I may be designing AI team structures and delivery models, partnering with sales teams to win new business, scoping newly won opportunities and building the cross-functional teams required to deliver them, building pricing and commercialization frameworks, advising executives on AI investments, creating seller enablement programs, driving enterprise AI adoption, working with IT to evaluate and onboard new technology capabilities, building agentic solutions alongside developers, or establishing the governance, certification pathways, and operating standards required to scale AI across an Over the course of my career, I have been asked to solve problems that do not yet have playbooks: launching new capabilities, designing new operating models, establishing governance frameworks, building enterprise platforms, and helping leadership teams navigate periods of technological and organizational Increasingly, my work extends beyond AI solutions into AI organizations. I help companies design the teams, roles, governance structures, delivery frameworks, commercialization approaches, and operating models required to make AI a sustainable business capability. This often means defining how strategy, sales, solutioning, engineering, and delivery functions work together to move AI from experimentation into enterprise-scale Areas of focus:• AI strategy and investment prioritization• Commercialization, pricing, and go-to-market design• AI operating models and governance• Solution architecture and delivery frameworks• Organizational transformation and adoption• Agentic and autonomous systemsI operate between business strategy and technical execution, helping organizations move beyond pilots and proof-of-concepts to build repeatable, measurable AI capabilities that create lasting competitive I don't optimize for the status quo. I build the systems, capabilities, and operating models that define what comes next.
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- ICROSSINGJOB
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- WPPJOB
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Manager, Analytics and Digital Strategy
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- Job: WPP — Manager, Analytics and Digital Strategy · 2010-08 – 2013-02
- Job: Applied Innovation Lab — Founder & Lead AI Strategist · 2024-08 – present
- Job: Quigley — Senior Director, Strategy and Analytics · 2023-01 – 2024-07
- Job: iCrossing — Associate Director, Digital Media Strategy · 2014-09 – 2015-03
- Job: HS Ad North America — Associate Director, CRM Analytics & Data Strategy · 2017-09 – 2018-12
- Job: Merkley + Partners — Senior Manager, Strategy and Business Intelligence · 2013-04 – 2014-09
- Job: Merkle — Director, Solutions & Analytics · 2021-05 – 2022-11
- Job: iQuanti, Inc. — Director, Strategy & Data Science · 2019-02 – 2020-11
- Job: Bridge Partners Consulting — Head of GTM AI & Technology | AI Commercialization & Operations · 2026-01 – present
- Job: Bank of America — Social Listening & Research Analyst (Contract) · 2015-10 – 2016-12
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