Lead To Serve Others
Everyone at Shield AI practices servant leadership, meaning they are focused on the growth and well-being of every employee and stakeholder.

Ryan Tseng
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, CO-FOUNDER
Ryan Tseng is Shield AI’s Co-Founder and CEO. Prior to founding Shield AI, Ryan founded and led a series of other successful technology companies, including WiPower, a wireless charging company that was acquired...

Brandon Tseng
President, Co-Founder
Brandon Tseng is Shield AI’s Co-Founder, President, and Chief Growth Officer. Prior to founding Shield AI, Brandon proudly served in the US Navy for seven years. As a Navy SEAL, he served two deployments to Afghanistan...

Nathan Michael
Chief Technology Officer
Nathan Michael is Shield AI’s Chief Technology Officer and an Associate Research Professor in the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). At CMU, Professor Michael is the Director of the Resilient Intelligent...

Andrew Rieter
Technical Fellow, Co-founder
Andrew Reiter is Shield AI’s Co-Founder and Technical Fellow. Prior to founding Shield AI, Andrew led the development and deployment of one of Draper Lab’s most successful visual-inertial guidance systems that is now widely deployed...

Tricia Yankovich
Chief People Officer
Tricia Yankovich joined Shield AI after nearly six years of overseeing explosive growth at Five9, a cloud-based software company. Tricia held various senior people operations roles at Five9, helping scale from 300 to 2,200 teammates...

Andrew Dimitruk
Chief Operations Officer
Andrew Dimitruk is Shield AI’s Chief Operations Officer. Prior to joining Shield AI, Andrew was a Consultant and Engagement Manager at McKinsey, serving both public and private sector clients...

Henoch Senbetta
Chief of Staff
As Chief of Staff, Henoch leverages his wealth of experience as a Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) generalist and business development leader. Prior to joining Shield AI, he was a Senior Vice President for M&A at two companies...

Bob Harward
Executive Vice President
Bob Harward is Executive Vice President for International Business and Strategy at Shield AI, where he is responsible for expanding the company’s international business operations and strategy on every continent...

Andrew Berlin
Executive Chairman
Andrew Berlin, the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Chicago-based Berlin Packaging led the company for nearly 32 years – taking it from a small distributor to the largest of its kind in the packaging industry...

Brett Darcey
Vice President, Heron Engineering
At Shield AI, Brett focuses on building AI for manned aircraft, Group 5 unmanned aircraft, and precision munitions. He leads all efforts associated with the integration of AI onto real world systems, and engages warfighters...

Alex Higgs
Vice President of Finance and Accounting
Alex Higgs joined Shield AI after working at Raytheon Technologies in a variety of finance, strategy, and operations roles for nearly a decade. Most notably, he was part of the Rockwell Collins integration team and responsible for...

Ryan Tseng
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, CO-FOUNDER
Ryan Tseng is Shield AI’s Co-Founder and CEO. Prior to founding Shield AI, Ryan founded and led a series of other successful technology companies, including WiPower, a wireless charging company that was acquired...

Brandon Tseng
President, Co-Founder
Brandon Tseng is Shield AI’s Co-Founder, President, and Chief Growth Officer. Prior to founding Shield AI, Brandon proudly served in the US Navy for seven years. As a Navy SEAL, he served two deployments to Afghanistan...

Nathan Michael
Chief Technology Officer
Nathan Michael is Shield AI’s Chief Technology Officer and an Associate Research Professor in the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). At CMU, Professor Michael is the Director of the Resilient Intelligent...

Andrew Rieter
Technical Fellow, Co-Founder
Andrew Reiter is Shield AI’s Co-Founder and Technical Fellow. Prior to founding Shield AI, Andrew led the development and deployment of one of Draper Lab’s most successful visual-inertial guidance...

Tricia Yankovich
Chief People Officer
Tricia Yankovich joined Shield AI after nearly six years of overseeing explosive growth at Five9, a cloud-based software company. Tricia held various senior people operations roles at Five9, helping scale from 300 to 2,200 teammates...

Andrew Dimitruk
Chief Operations Officer
Andrew Dimitruk is Shield AI’s Chief Operations Officer. Prior to joining Shield AI, Andrew was a Consultant and Engagement Manager at McKinsey, serving both public and private sector clients, where he provided...

Henoch Senbetta
Chief of Staff
As Chief of Staff, Henoch leverages his wealth of experience as a Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) generalist and business development leader. Prior to joining Shield AI, he was a Senior Vice President for M&A at two companies..

Bob Harward
Executive Vice President
Bob Harward is Executive Vice President for International Business and Strategy at Shield AI, where he is responsible for expanding the company’s international business operations and strategy on every continent...

Andrew Berlin
Executive Chairman
Andrew Berlin, the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Chicago-based Berlin Packaging led the company for nearly 32 years – taking it from a small distributor to the largest of its kind in the packaging industry...

Brett Darcey
Vice President, Heron Engineering
At Shield AI, Brett focuses on building AI for manned aircraft, Group 5 unmanned aircraft, and precision munitions. He leads all efforts associated with the integration of AI onto real world systems, and engages warfighters...

Alex Higgs
Vice President of Finance and Accounting
Alex Higgs joined Shield AI after working at Raytheon Technologies in a variety of finance, strategy, and operations roles for nearly a decade. Most notably, he was part of the Rockwell Collins integration team and responsible for...