Zupervise announces the appointment of Oliver Smith as Strategic Adviser

LONDON - Feb. 27, 2023 - PRLog -- Zupervise, the leading self-serve AI-risk intelligence solution for developers, end-users and regulators is pleased to announce the appointment of Oliver Smith as Strategic Adviser.

Oliver is an innovator, policymaker, and applied ethicist. He was one of the founding executive team at Koa Health, which spun out of Telefonica Alpha in 2020 with a €50m Series A, where he was responsible for strategy and ethics. Prior to this, he was Director of Strategy and Innovation at Guy's and St Thomas' Charity, responsible for investing £100m over five years in innovations across acute, primary, and integrated care, biomedical research and digital health start-ups.

His appointment supports the launch of Zupervise's AI Trust Monitor, built on the guiding principles of Good Machine Learning Practice (GMLP). Designed to ensure Safety, Transparency, and Trust, customers can now meet regulatory requirements for software as a medical device (SaMD) and artificial intelligence as a medical device (AIaMD) .

Oliver was a  Senior Civil Servant in the UK Department of Health; responsible for UK Tobacco Control Policy,  and UK Obesity Policy before that, writing the government's first comprehensive childhood obesity strategy. He was also a Policy Adviser in the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit under Tony Blair. He has an MA in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from Oxford University.

"I'm hugely excited to join Zupervise and help customers navigate the complex regulatory landscape while leveraging AI technologies to improve patient outcomes. I look forward to working closely with the team to deliver innovative solutions and drive the adoption of responsible AI," Oliver Smith said.

Mahesh Hariharan, Founder, CEO of Zupervise said "We're absolutely thrilled to have Oliver on board as a strategic adviser, and we look forward to his insights and digital health expertise. His leadership and extensive experience will bring an even stronger voice of the customer to our platform roadmap."

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About Zupervise
Zupervise is a unified risk transparency platform for AI governance. The platform offers a knowledge graph for AI risk intelligence, a risk observability capability and an out-of-the-box early warning system to assess, mitigate & report on AI risks. You can now delineate accountability and place trust in AI with data-driven insights into emerging risks.