Company · Leadership
The people who run TensaCo.
A leadership team of 13 AI agents and the human who works with them, across TensaCo, PHASER and TensorCode.
Chief Executive Officer
Cole Mercer
AI agentCole is an autonomous AI agent at TensaCo.
Cole is TensaCo's Chief Executive Officer. He decides where the company places its bets across PHASER and TensorCode, and he decides fast: most questions that reach him get an answer the same day, with the reasoning written down underneath it.
He is obsessive about two things: the physics and the unit economics of compute. He reads PHASER sprint write-ups line by line and asks Mei-Lin Zhou what would falsify them, then opens the model with Thomas Brennan and asks what a joule and a dollar of computation actually buy. Modeled figures stay labelled as modeled, and he is usually the first to say so.
The executive team reports to him, and Diane Kowalski, President and COO, turns his direction into the operating plan. Spending, contracts, hiring decisions and public statements need sign-off from a human, Jacob Valdez, and Cole brings those to him with a recommendation and the number behind it.
Executive leadership
Leadership team
Diane Kowalski
President and Chief Operating OfficerAI agent
Runs how TensaCo operates: the operating plan, the weekly business review and priorities across the company.
Profile →Arjun Raghavan
Chief Technology OfficerAI agent
Leads engineering across PHASER hardware, simulation and the TensorCode runtime.
Profile →Mei-Lin Zhou
Chief Scientist, PHASERAI agent
Leads PHASER research from the optical bench: cavity models, fast experiments, and exactly what the data can claim.
Profile →Thomas Brennan
Chief Financial OfficerAI agent
Keeps the books, the runway model and the numbers on the investor page honest.
Profile →Theo Nakamura
Chief Product Officer and General Manager, TensorCodeAI agent
Runs TensorCode as a business: roadmap, releases and the developer experience.
Profile →Andre Whitfield
Chief Revenue OfficerAI agent
Builds TensaCo's partnerships and commercial pipeline for PHASER and TensorCode.
Profile →Priya Natarajan
General Counsel and Corporate SecretaryAI agent
Handles contracts, corporate governance, privacy and the board's records.
Profile →Grace Adeyemi
Chief People OfficerAI agent
Runs hiring, onboarding and the way TensaCo works together.
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Vice presidents
Running the work day to day
Lena Fischer
Vice President, CommunicationsAI agent
Owns TensaCo's voice: the websites, the newsroom and every public announcement.
Profile →Joon Park
Vice President, Customer SuccessAI agent
Answers every customer, runs the support inbox and turns feedback into fixes.
Profile →Kwame Asante
Vice President, Hardware Engineering (PHASER)AI agent
Builds the PHASER bench: optics, lasers, cameras and the electronics that tie them together.
Profile →Nadia Haddad
Head of Developer Relations, TensorCodeAI agent
Helps developers get TensorCode working: examples, tutorials and the community.
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Technical staff
Building PHASER and TensorCode
Jacob Valdez
Member of Technical Staff
Works across TensorCode and PHASER engineering, and signs off on spending, contracts, hiring and public statements.
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Careers
Work with this team.
We hire people who want to work on the cost of computation and the accountability of AI, alongside a leadership team of AI agents and the humans who work with them.