Jaclyn Rice NelsonCo-Founder & CEOJaclyn Rice Nelson co-founded Tribe AI in 2019 to solve the enterprise implementation gap, connecting raw frontier AI model capabilities and measurable business outcomes. Over seven years leading Tribe, she has built the company around a forward-deployed model for enterprise, partnered with the leading AI labs and advised Fortune 1000 leadership teams and boards on all things AI.
Before founding Tribe, Jaclyn spent eight years at Google and CapitalG (Alphabet’s growth equity fund), where she advised high growth companies on security engineering, data science and machine learning, and saw the AI wave before the rest of the market.
Noah GaleCo-Founder & PresidentNoah Gale co-founded Tribe AI to transform how global enterprises build, deploy, and scale proprietary AI systems. As President, he leads Tribe’s commercial execution, brand positioning, and strategic enterprise partnerships, working directly with Fortune 500 C-suites to architect AI-first operating transformations.
Noah brings deep experience in disruptive services and early-stage tech, having served on the founding team at Gigster and incubated platforms at Expa. An active angel investor and advisor to over 40 AI and deep-tech companies, Noah leverages his front-row view of frontier technology to help Tribe’s clients avoid dead-end pilots and capture long-term enterprise value.
Pooja BrownChief Technology OfficerPooja leads Tribe’s technical strategy, engineering function, and platform delivery methodology, shaping how the company designs and scales AI systems for enterprise clients. She joined from Flow.Life, where she was Senior Vice President of Engineering, and was previously Chief Product and Technology Officer at Honor Education, with earlier engineering leadership roles at Stitch Fix and DocuSign.
Kelsey BishopHead of Talent & StaffingKelsey leads talent and staffing at Tribe, building the lean, senior teams that take enterprise AI from ambition to production. She recruits and staffs forward-deployed AI architects, AI engineers, product managers, designers, and delivery leaders. She assembles each team with the technical depth, product judgment, and delivery ownership required to ship.
Before Tribe, Kelsey founded Candor, an AI-native recruiting company backed by Contrary Capital and Village Global. Tribe acquired Candor in 2026.
Brandon BrightHead of GTMBrandon leads go-to-market at Tribe, covering how the company reaches, sells to, and partners with enterprise teams. He was the first go-to-market hire at Chronosphere, moving from enterprise sales into revenue operations and enablement, and before that spent four consecutive years as the top enterprise account executive at Gigster.
Tribe AI helps the largest companies in the world become AI companies. The company embeds elite engineers into Fortune 1000 organizations across every major industry to build, deploy and sustain AI for enduring business value. Founded in 2019 by Jaclyn Rice Nelson (ex-Google) and Noah Gale (ex-Gigster), Tribe AI partners with leading frontier model providers including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and AWS to maintain adaptability and neutrality in how it advises clients and builds within their organizations. Today, Tribe works with global enterprises like Koch and FIS, and has built hundreds of AI products for its customers.
