DenaNeek
Author · 2025
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3 Continents
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Selected by
U.S. Dept. of Commerce
AI Innovation Summit '24
World Business Chicago
Dena Neek is an AI engineer, serial entrepreneur, and the author of AI Native by Design. She has built and sold 3 tech companies across 3 continents, won Judges' Choice at the 2024 AI Innovation Summit in Chicago, and was selected by the U.S. Department of Commerce as one of 12 startups to represent American innovation at CES 2025.
She is the co-founder and CEO of ExBrain, an AI-native platform that gives any founder the infrastructure to run a Micro Firm: governed workflows, machine-speed execution, and a business brain that compounds from day one.
Dena has trained hundreds of business leaders on AI adoption and led the technical development of multiple AI-native platforms.
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to run a Micro Firm.
Born from a decade inside mid-market companies expanding by acquisition, ExBrain captures the tacit knowledge that makes a business valuable, keeps it alive through transitions, and gives every firm the ability to compete in an AI-defined economy.
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