David Stevens

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About David Stevens

David Stevens is a seasoned AI leader, builder, and founder who has spent his career turning emerging technology into real-world transformation. Most recently, he served as VP of AI at CentralReach, where he led the company’s enterprise-wide AI strategy through a critical period of growth and innovation. Under his leadership, AI became central to the platform's differentiation and market success—contributing significantly to CentralReach’s $1.85B acquisition by Roper Technologies. Insight Partners named CentralReach as one of the only companies in its portfolio to have “cracked the code on AI in production,” and the company was recognized in parallel as one of the Top 25 AI-First Companies—validation of both technical execution and strategic vision in a space where many still struggle to move beyond prototypes. Prior to CentralReach, David founded and sold companies like Chartlytics, and learned just as much from early ventures that didn’t succeed. Across his career, he’s built for—and with—teams spanning the entire AI stack: from data infrastructure to applied machine learning and user-facing product design. His focus has consistently been on what it takes to operationalize AI at scale, not just theorize about it. Today, David is working independently across multiple projects. His goal is to help teams avoid the trap of legacy tech and legacy thinking—guiding leaders toward net-new architectures, intelligent systems, and ways of working that reflect the demands and possibilities of the modern enterprise. He writes, builds, and advises with one goal in mind: making breakthrough technology actually deliver.