Ensemble AI: Two Of The Most Successful AWS Cloud Pioneers Are Starting A New AI Solution Provider
Summary
The dynamic London-based cloud duo, Benjamin Wootton (pictured above left), the co-founder and CTO of Contino, a one-time AWS Premier Partner that was sold to Cognizant in 2019; and Pontus Noren (pictured above right), co-founder of Cloudreach, an AWS Premier partner sold to Atos in 2021, are looking to strike gold once again with Ensemble AI. The two successful entrepreneurs officially announced their new boot-strapped professional services venture aimed at helping enterprises “deploy and adopt advanced analytics, machine learning and AI”, in a Linkedin post. “Now as we stand on the precipice of a new era defined by AI and data capabilities, we’re eager to leverage our past experience to help businesses harness the potential of these emerging technologies.” In an interview with CRN, Noren, who is CEO of Ensemble, and Wootton, who is CTO, said the AI opportunity is much bigger than the cloud computing revolution that was sparked by AWS. Noren, who built Cloudreach into a 800-person business that was acquired by solution provider behemoth Atos in late 2021, said the AI opportunity is “magnitudes bigger” than the cloud computing shift. “For us financial services is screaming out as a place to go and apply this with the biggest business cases.” Among the areas Ensemble AI will play a role helping enterprises will be helping, cleaning and preparing data, modernizing applications, automating business processes and building the infrastructure layer underneath those applications, said Wootton.