Eric Reuthe

Eric Reuthe

Vice President of Engineering

Eric Reuthe has over 25 years of experience in helping organizations design, engineer, and bring to market products and solutions in a variety of industries including Financial Services, Automotive, IoT, and Medical Devices. In his current role at Zapata AI as Vice President of Engineering, Eric is responsible for leading the technical vision and strategy of the company’s cutting-edge generative AI technology and overseeing the development and delivery of high-performance AI models and algorithms. Eric has been a company founder and entrepreneur as well as leading technology organizations as CIO, CTO, and Head of Product Engineering for several companies. Eric is a named inventor on multiple patents related to distributed computing, payments, and digital incentives, and has architected several high-volume transaction processing systems for payments and IoT. Eric has a degree in Philosophy from Brown University and studied Applied Computer Science at Harvard University.

 

Questions & Answers

Why have you chosen a career in quantum?

For the opportunity to leverage new technology to solve long-standing challenges. Who doesn’t love new tech!

What’s the best advice you’ve ever received?

Take it slow to go fast.

What are people often surprised to know about you?

At 6’1 I was the shortest guy beside the coxswain on the Brown University crew team.