Radiant Systems founded
Radiant sold to NCR
AnswerRocket founded
Named Gartner Cool Vendor
Integrated LLM technology into solutions
Max AI launch
Global deployments with key accounts
AnswerRocket AI Consulting Division launched
Jim Johnson serves as Managing Partner of AI Solutions and Consulting at AnswerRocket, where he leads the company’s enterprise AI consulting practice and helps clients develop and implement transformative AI strategies.
Jim brings extensive expertise in building and scaling enterprise AI initiatives that deliver measurable business impact. Prior to joining AnswerRocket, Jim was Vice President of AI and Data Solutions at NTT DATA Services and Senior Client Partner at Aspirent, where he specialized in helping organizations navigate their AI transformation journeys.
Jim’s background includes partner roles at Accenture and senior leadership positions at Daugherty Business Solutions, where he consistently demonstrated his ability to translate complex AI capabilities into practical business solutions. His deep understanding of enterprise AI challenges and opportunities makes him an invaluable resource for organizations looking to accelerate their AI adoption and achieve significant returns on their technology investments.
Dan O’Keefe serves as Managing Director at AnswerRocket, where he leads strategic growth initiatives and helps enterprises scale their AI capabilities. He brings deep expertise in building technology practices that deliver measurable business outcomes.
Prior to joining AnswerRocket, Dan was Chief Revenue Officer and Board Member at Aspirent (acquired by NTT DATA Services), where he successfully led data analytics and management consulting initiatives for clients. His distinguished executive career includes leadership positions at Booz & Company, Daugherty Business Solutions, KPMG, and Accenture, where he developed a proven track record of driving strategic growth and delivering enterprise-grade solutions across multiple industries.
Dan’s approach combines technical expertise with business acumen, enabling him to help organizations bridge the gap between AI potential and realized business value.
Andy Sweet is a technology entrepreneur with a proven track record of building and successfully exiting tech ventures. He currently serves as Vice President of Enterprise AI Solutions at AnswerRocket, where he leads a team focused on delivering AI-driven solutions that drive measurable business impact. Previously, Andy was the co-founder and CEO of Cognitive Spark, an AI and management consulting firm acquired by AnswerRocket. Earlier in his career, he co-founded and led Visual Software Integration, which was acquired by Compete. He has also held CTO roles at several startups and spent over a decade in executive leadership at IBM and Daugherty Business Solutions. Andy’s expertise lies at the intersection of data, AI, and organizational growth. He excels at scaling companies from concept to market leadership and is known for building high-performance teams and identifying emerging opportunities ahead of the curve.
Shanti Greene serves as Head of Data Science and AI Innovation at AnswerRocket, where he leads the technical practice responsible for turning enterprise data into production-grade AI solutions. With over two decades of experience in data science and analytics, he has helped organizations across industries move from disorganized data to meaningful business outcomes, applying large language models, computer vision, neural network-based forecasting, and advanced cloud and data engineering to real enterprise challenges.
Prior to AnswerRocket, Shanti served as Global Head of AI and Data Strategy at InfoCepts, and before that as VP of AI and Innovation and Data Science Practice Leader at Daugherty Business Solutions, where he built and led the firm’s data science practice for nearly six years. Earlier roles include Data Science Manager at Deloitte and Director of Business Intelligence and Analytics at iContact, where he reduced revenue churn by 67% through field experimentation and data-driven strategy.
In addition to his work at AnswerRocket, Shanti is an adjunct professor at Washington University in St. Louis’s McKelvey School of Engineering, where he teaches graduate-level analytics. He holds a Master of Information and Data Science from UC Berkeley, and undergraduate degrees from Case Western Reserve University and the University of Hartford.
Michelle Hamilton is Director of AI Adoption & Change Management at AnswerRocket, where she leads the work most AI transformations skip: getting people ready to actually use the technology. She brings more than 30 years of strategic leadership across commercial real estate, business development, and marketing, and has spent the last several years building the frameworks that turn AI investments into measurable organizational movement.
Before joining AnswerRocket, Michelle founded Spark AI Strategy, where she helped enterprises close the gap between AI capability and adoption. Her work earned recognition as revolutionary in a field still defining itself. She is a sought-after national speaker and podcast guest known for making AI practical, human, and results-oriented for business leaders at every stage of the journey.
Outside of work, Michelle is a master glass sculptor with more than 40 years of experience and work featured in over 70 national collections, including museum installations. She actively uses AI in her art practice.
Nicole Kosky serves as Senior Director of Services at AnswerRocket, where she leads the delivery, operations, and client success functions that turn AI implementations into lasting business outcomes. She has been a driving force behind AnswerRocket’s services practice as it has scaled to serve Fortune Global 2000 clients across industries.
Nicole brings a career built on the intersection of technology and client impact, with a strong focus on ensuring that every engagement delivers measurable business value. She is committed to helping organizations move beyond experimentation with AI to achieve tangible results that drive growth, efficiency, and competitive advantage. Before AnswerRocket, she held VP-level customer success and account services roles at Vivonet and MacromatiX, where she built and led cross-functional teams spanning account management, professional services, and support. Earlier in her career, she managed large enterprise programs at Radiant Systems and RedPrairie, delivering complex hosted solutions for clients including Chick-fil-A, McDonald’s, and Burger King.
Her background also includes engineering and R&D project management at CIBA Vision, giving her an unusually technical foundation for an executive in client services. Nicole holds a degree in engineering as well as an MBA with a concentration in computer information systems, and has demonstrated a consistent ability to bring structure, rigor, and a client-first mindset to fast-moving organizations.
Ben Titmus serves as Senior Director and Practice Leader for AI Data, Platforms, and Infrastructure at AnswerRocket, where he builds custom AI solutions — foundations, platforms, and agents — for Fortune Global 2000 clients across the full stack of leading AI providers and hyperscalers. His practice focuses on helping enterprises adopt pragmatic, human-centered AI that drives measurable business outcomes.
Ben brings over a decade of technology consulting experience, with deep expertise in cloud architecture, data lakehouse, and AI implementation. Prior to AnswerRocket, he was a Director at Gartner Consulting, where he led modernization programs for global asset managers, pharmaceutical companies, and large-scale SaaS organizations, delivering hundreds of millions in identified savings through cloud optimization and technology strategy engagements.
His background also includes product development at Thermo Fisher, and senior roles at Slalom and Intuit, where he led enterprise cloud migrations, large-scale agile transformations, and complex multi-workstream programs across financial services, healthcare, and retail. Ben holds degrees from Bentley University and Tilburg University.