Board of Directors
Brian Benedict is a technology executive and serial entrepreneur who has spent his career building the go-to-market engines behind category-defining companies in AI. He is Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer of Eliza, an AI-native firm that helps enterprises move from AI strategy to production, often in under two months. Eliza has delivered AI solutions for organizations ranging from Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters to fast-growing startups.
Before Eliza, Brian was employee 23 at Hugging Face. As Head of Global Sales, he built the company's first repeatable sales motion, growing revenue 215% quarter over quarter. He then co-founded Arcee.ai, where he helped create the Small Language Models category, scaled the platform to more than $3 million in organic revenue within 18 months, and helped raise nearly $50 million in venture capital. Earlier, he led sales at Tecton (acquired by Databricks) and Pentaho (acquired by Hitachi).
At Claro, Brian brings a builder's perspective on how AI reshapes entire industries as the firm scales Claire nationally.
