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Agentic AI & governance
Production AI for regulated workflows — not demos. Controls, auditability, and human oversight by design.
Courtlin Holt-Nguyen
Asia Pacific · Transient.AI
Chief AI Officer
for capital markets
I build agentic AI that helps institutions make faster, governed decisions — and I write about what actually works when AI meets regulated reality.
About
Operator. Writer. Builder.
I'm Courtlin Holt-Nguyen, Chief AI Officer for Asia Pacific at Transient.AI, where we turn fragmented legacy systems into a unified, compliant intelligence layer for capital-markets decisions.
Before Transient, I led AI and data at QIMA and ran enterprise analytics for a Fortune 500 in Vietnam — bridging technical teams and business leaders so AI and analytics actually move the needle.
Focus
Where I put my focus
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Capital markets intelligence
Transient.AI: unified, compliant decision layers on top of fragmented institutional systems.
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Analytics leadership
Fortune 500 BI, forecasting, and data architecture that executives will actually use.
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Writing & teaching
Practical AI/ML and analytics for practitioners — shipping lessons, not hype cycles.
Experience
Selected roles
Current
Chief AI Officer, Asia Pacific
Transient.AI
Agentic AI and BI for capital markets; APAC engineering and product contribution.
Prior
Head of AI and Data
QIMA
Global AI/ML strategy across 100+ countries; document intelligence, GenAI, MLOps.
Prior
Head / Director of Enterprise Analytics, Vietnam
Philip Morris International
Led enterprise analytics and the company's integrated BI / KPI platform (SQL, Python, Power BI, AWS).
Earlier: investment analysis, BI, and cybersecurity in Honolulu — including work with the State of Hawaii Employees' Retirement System.