H2O.ai, a pioneer in sovereign AI and the world’s leading agentic and predictive AI company, today announced the appointment of Jason Finney as President and Chief Revenue Officer. In this role, Finney will lead H2O.ai’s Global Sales, Partner Ecosystems, Solution Consulting, Marketing, Customer Success, and Revenue Operations as the company expands adoption of its enterprise AI platform across industries and government agencies worldwide.
Finney is a veteran go-to-market leader with more than three decades of executive experience driving growth at global software companies including Samsara, Informatica, and ServiceNow. He has led enterprise sales organizations through IPOs, cloud transformations, and international expansion.
“H2O.ai’s vision for open, responsible, and sovereign AI is exactly what enterprises and governments need as they move from experimentation to real-world deployment,” said Finney. “No company combines open-source gravity, sovereign trust, and enterprise-grade AI like H2O.ai. This platform will define the next decade of AI, and we will do it with transparency, speed, and responsibility at the core.”
“We’re entering a truly transformative phase in human history with AI. Customers everywhere are reinventing entire businesses with Agentic AI, and are seeking true partners who can help them scale with trust and speed to unlock value and protect themselves against AI-native threats and competitors. Jason is a world-class leader, a superstar, who brings depth, rigor and professionalism needed for building high output revenue organizations and ecosystems. I’m thrilled to welcome Jason into our H2O.ai movement and unleash his prolificity to make abundance for our customers, community and shareholders in our mission to democratize AI for Good,” said Sri Ambati, Founder and CEO of H2O.ai.
Finney joins H2O.ai amid record growth and customer impact. Customers across sectors are seeing real-world ROI — from Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s 70% reduction in scam losses, to the National Institutes of Health’s secure, air-gapped GenAI assistant supporting 8,000 users across 28 institutes and deflecting more than 10,000 service requests annually.
H2O.ai’s leadership continues to be recognized across the industry. The company was ranked #1 in Agentic AI Accuracy in the GAIA Index (June 2025), named a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Science and ML Platforms, and is in progress to achieve FedRAMP High Impact authorization, reinforcing its position as a trusted provider of sovereign and compliant AI for government and enterprise customers.
H2O.ai is a top global partner to both NVIDIA and Dell Technologies, collaborating to bring trusted, full-stack AI infrastructure to enterprise and government customers. With NVIDIA, H2O.ai has integrated Nemotron reasoning models into its enterprise AI stack and is validated on the NVIDIA AI Factory for Government, advancing mission-grade AI through secure, high-performance architectures. H2O.ai is also validated on the Dell AI Factory, helping organizations deploy agentic AI securely on-prem and at the edge while maintaining full control over their data.
Finney’s appointment underscores H2O.ai’s accelerating growth and global momentum as enterprises move from AI experimentation to full-scale deployment. With proven customer ROI, strategic partnerships across the AI ecosystem, and a trusted reputation for open, responsible innovation, H2O.ai is defining the next decade of enterprise and sovereign AI.
About H2O.ai
Founded in 2012, H2O.ai is on a mission to democratize AI. As the world’s leading agentic AI company, H2O.ai converges Generative and Predictive AI to help enterprises and public sector agencies develop purpose-built GenAI applications on their private data. With a focus on Sovereign AI—secure, compliant, and infrastructure-flexible deployments—H2O.ai delivers solutions that align with the highest standards of data privacy and control.
Its open-source technology is trusted by over 20,000 organizations worldwide, including more than half of the Fortune 500. H2O.ai powers AI transformation for companies like AT&T, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Singtel, Chipotle, Workday, Progressive Insurance, and NIH.
H2O.ai partners include NVIDIA, Dell Technologies, Deloitte, Ernst & Young (EY), Accenture, Snowflake, AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), VAST Data, Carahsoft, and MinIO. H2O.ai’s AI for Good program supports nonprofit groups, foundations, and communities in advancing education, healthcare, and environmental conservation. With a vibrant community of 2 million data scientists worldwide, H2O.ai aims to co-create valuable AI applications for all users.
H2O.ai has raised $256 million from investors, including Commonwealth Bank, NVIDIA, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Capital One, Nexus Ventures, and New York Life.
For more information, visit www.h2o.ai.
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“No company combines open-source gravity, sovereign trust, and enterprise-grade AI like H2O.ai. This platform will define the next decade of AI, and we will do it with transparency, speed, and responsibility at the core.”
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