Founder and CEO

Robert Labardee

Robert Labardee is an AI consultant and the founder and CEO of Lightbridge.ai, the applied-AI and enterprise-systems consulting firm. Over a 27-year career as an engineer, architect, and product leader, he has worked across military aerospace, automation, machine vision, and enterprise systems. He is a Marine Corps aviation veteran who led an airborne electronic-warfare team maintaining RF, laser, and countermeasure systems on military aircraft. A hands-on systems engineer and machine-learning practitioner since 2010, he built computer-vision and signal-processing systems, including FMCW-LIDAR 3D facial recognition at Digital Signal Corporation, then carried that engineering depth into enterprise systems architecture and more than 10 years advising the C-suite on finance and revenue systems: solutions architecture and business-process redesign across revenue operations, sales and CRM, finance and accounting, and product management, with deep hands-on NetSuite and Salesforce work. He holds a certificate in artificial intelligence from MIT and an IEEE certification, and is pursuing Anthropic's Claude Certified Architect credential. He founded and sets the technical direction for the Lightbridge advisory, ERP, cloud, software, and AI practices, where deep systems expertise meets applied AI and Claude.

• Founder and CEO of Lightbridge.ai; Marine Corps aviation veteran
• 27-year career as an engineer, architect, and product leader across military aerospace, automation, and enterprise systems
• Finance and revenue-systems subject matter expert; 10+ years advising the C-suite
• Machine learning practitioner since 2010: machine vision, biometrics, and applied AI