Joseph Kim

Background

About Joseph Kim

Joseph Kim is the Chief Executive Officer of Makai Labs. He has 25 years of experience architecting and developing complex enterprise solutions. For the past decade he's focused on applying AI models, LLMs, and other cognitive technologies with RPA to automate repetitive manual tasks across the enterprise, raising productivity by orders of magnitude for specific functions. He is also an expert at standardizing disparate data from systems built across 60+ years of tech into a single, secure, and unique golden dataset for each organization, powering AI models and applications for each company with extreme accuracy and optimal standardization. Prior to starting Makai, Joseph was the Chief Automation Officer at PivotAi and Managing Director of Sequel Labs, an advanced technology product development practice at Sequel Studio. While leading PivotAi and Sequel Labs, Joseph developed consumer apps integrating machine vision and workflow automation solutions for enterprise clients. Joseph co-founded Nexops in 2005, which provided premium web design and development services to clients across industries, developing custom web-based enterprise platforms, automation solutions, and native mobile apps for iOS and Android. At Nexops, Joseph led development teams on enterprise web projects for dozens of major corporations and organizations, including JPMorgan Chase, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Adobe Systems, LVMH, and the United Nations Foundation. Earlier in his career, he was the Director of Consulting at a major biometric consulting firm, leading project teams to design and implement innovative biometric security solutions for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Department of State, and the Department of Homeland Security. His research focused on prototyping multimodal biometric matching systems, combining fingerprint, iris, and facial recognition devices and algorithms. Joseph has appeared on Good Morning America, Nightline, and BusinessWeek TV as a technology expert and has been quoted in hundreds of publications, including the New York Times, Forbes and USA Today. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence from MIT. He served as the Chair of the MIT Enterprise Forum NYC from 2017 to 2020.