Jon Walkenhorst

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About Jon Walkenhorst

I have spent 30 years building technology organizations, shipping products, and leading transformations across media, telecom, cybersecurity, and SaaS. As CTO and CPO, I have scaled platforms 500%, managed P & Ls up to $27M, led technical due diligence on over $1B in acquisitions, and grown teams from 8 to 160+ people.In 2025, after leaving my CPO role at Sohonet, I made a deliberate choice: go deep on enterprise AI. Over the past year, I published 115 articles across 12 structured series on my Substack, Signals & Systems, covering agent architectures, AI governance, ML operations, workforce transformation, identity systems for AI agents, and measurement frameworks. I tested these ideas through advisory engagements with companies navigating real AI implementation challenges.The result is something I rarely see in my peer group: three decades of building and shipping at scale, combined with a year of deep, published research on how enterprises actually make AI work. Not the vendor pitch. Not the conference keynote. The operational reality.I am looking for my next leadership role (CTO, CPO, or VP/SVP of AI Strategy) at a company that is serious about enterprise AI and needs someone who has both built the organizations and written the playbook.Read the work: signalsandsystems.substack.comWhat I bring:Enterprise AI strategy, governance, and deliveryProduct leadership from zero-to-one through scaleAgent/MCP architecture and ML operationsFinOps, cloud architecture, and cybersecurityM & A technical due diligence ($1B+)Industries: Media & Entertainment, Telecom, Cybersecurity, SaaS, IoT, Broadband