Managing Partner, Noventra Ventures
AI Analyst, GAI Insights, Inc.
Luda leads Noventra Ventures, a new fund that invests in B2B start-ups powered by AI. She also leads a Daily AI News Review team at GAI Insights, the world’s leading GenAI analyst firm serving innovative AI Leaders and AI vendors. An AI expert, Luda is passionate about creating business value with AI and is advising senior enterprise leaders and corporate boards on this topic.
Previously, she was a Corporate VC at DSM, a global nutrition materials company, a strategic advisor to boards and CEOs, a Corporate Executive at GE, a CEO of a public company that she turned around in 2 years, and a Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore where she co-founded the Institute for Engineering Leadership that nurtured 28+ start-up teams based on breakthrough technologies. Luda is a serial entrepreneur who co-founded three successful start-ups and a seed investor in many others. She served on boards of 12 high-tech private and public companies and facilitated many successful exits.
Luda is the author of a popular book The Right Decision Every Time: How to Reach Clarity on Tough Decisions, focused on CEO decision making, published by Prentice Hall. She completed her PhD in CS/AI at St. Petersburg University and an MBA at MIT Sloan as a Sloan Fellow.