B Capital Names Dr. Andrew Jackson General Partner and Chief AI Officer
Veteran AI Executive to Lead Global AI Strategy
B Capital, a global multi-stage investment firm, today announced the appointment of Dr. Andrew (“Andy”) Jackson as General Partner and Chief AI Officer. Dr. Jackson will lead B Capital’s global artificial intelligence (AI) strategy, working across investment, portfolio management and operations teams to enhance sourcing, diligence, knowledge sharing and founder support. He will also provide technology leadership for AI-driven businesses incubated by B Capital.
Dr. Jackson brings more than 20 years of experience in AI, machine learning and data, with deep expertise in enterprise deployment and responsible AI leadership. He most recently served as Chief AI Officer at G42, where he partnered with OpenAI to develop country-specific AI strategies to drive industry transformation across the UAE and oversaw governance for Stargate UAE, a 5-gigawatt AI infrastructure cluster that is the largest of its kind outside the U.S. He also founded a Microsoft-backed regional AI Foundation focused on advancing best practices in AI governance.
Previously, Dr. Jackson founded and served as CEO of Inception, an AI lab and G42 company that created the most extensive family of open-source AI models in the MENA region and supported the AI transformation of regional leaders in investment, government and energy. Earlier in his career, Dr. Jackson played a key role in expanding Palantir’s presence across the MENA region. He holds a PhD in machine learning from Trinity College Dublin.
