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How To Hire A Chief AI Officer That Actually Moves The Business Forward
Everything your leadership team needs to hire a Chief AI Officer who actually moves the business forward. Role scope, comp and search process from MSH.
Photos, bios, and contact information for MSH and its founder, Oz Rashid.
MSH is certified as a Minority Business Enterprise by the National Minority Supplier Development Council.
MSH is certified in Databricks and Informatica.
In 2023, MSH was recognized as one of the top 5 places to work by the South Florida Business Journal.
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Everything your leadership team needs to hire a Chief AI Officer who actually moves the business forward. Role scope, comp and search process from MSH.

80% of AI projects fail. An AI Center of Excellence gives mid-market companies the structure to move from pilots to production. Here is how to build one.
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In this episode, we sit down with Luis Suarez, Chief Technology Officer of H.I.G. Capital, one of the world's largest alternative investment firms managing over $74 billion in assets. Luis has spent nearly two decades leading technology strategy and operations across H.I.G.'s global platform, with a mandate that goes beyond internal IT — he walks into every company the firm acquires and evaluates the tech team from the inside. A lifelong technologist who started with a Commodore 64, Luis has navigated every major shift in enterprise technology, from the internet era and cloud migration to the pandemic-driven remote-work transformation and now the GenAI explosion. At H.I.G., he oversees not only the firm's own technology infrastructure, but also supports over 120 portfolio companies across industries ranging from healthcare to manufacturing on their AI enablement journeys. We dive into the three qualities Luis looks for in every hire that cannot be taught, why he believes patience is a superpower in the hiring process, and how H.I.G. is using a top-down AI enablement strategy to prepare its workforce for the decade ahead.
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Everything your leadership team needs to hire a Chief AI Officer who actually moves the business forward. Role scope, comp and search process from MSH.

80% of AI projects fail. An AI Center of Excellence gives mid-market companies the structure to move from pilots to production. Here is how to build one.
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In this episode, we sit down with Luis Suarez, Chief Technology Officer of H.I.G. Capital, one of the world's largest alternative investment firms managing over $74 billion in assets. Luis has spent nearly two decades leading technology strategy and operations across H.I.G.'s global platform, with a mandate that goes beyond internal IT — he walks into every company the firm acquires and evaluates the tech team from the inside. A lifelong technologist who started with a Commodore 64, Luis has navigated every major shift in enterprise technology, from the internet era and cloud migration to the pandemic-driven remote-work transformation and now the GenAI explosion. At H.I.G., he oversees not only the firm's own technology infrastructure, but also supports over 120 portfolio companies across industries ranging from healthcare to manufacturing on their AI enablement journeys. We dive into the three qualities Luis looks for in every hire that cannot be taught, why he believes patience is a superpower in the hiring process, and how H.I.G. is using a top-down AI enablement strategy to prepare its workforce for the decade ahead.
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Everything your leadership team needs to hire a Chief AI Officer who actually moves the business forward. Role scope, comp and search process from MSH.

80% of AI projects fail. An AI Center of Excellence gives mid-market companies the structure to move from pilots to production. Here is how to build one.
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In this episode, we sit down with Luis Suarez, Chief Technology Officer of H.I.G. Capital, one of the world's largest alternative investment firms managing over $74 billion in assets. Luis has spent nearly two decades leading technology strategy and operations across H.I.G.'s global platform, with a mandate that goes beyond internal IT — he walks into every company the firm acquires and evaluates the tech team from the inside. A lifelong technologist who started with a Commodore 64, Luis has navigated every major shift in enterprise technology, from the internet era and cloud migration to the pandemic-driven remote-work transformation and now the GenAI explosion. At H.I.G., he oversees not only the firm's own technology infrastructure, but also supports over 120 portfolio companies across industries ranging from healthcare to manufacturing on their AI enablement journeys. We dive into the three qualities Luis looks for in every hire that cannot be taught, why he believes patience is a superpower in the hiring process, and how H.I.G. is using a top-down AI enablement strategy to prepare its workforce for the decade ahead.

Anna Belova, Founder and CEO of OpenWay AI, is a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree and serial entrepreneur. She built DEVAR into one of the most ambitious consumer augmented reality companies in the world — 15 million books sold across 75 countries in 27 languages, a no-code AR platform used by 250,000 creators and 200 universities in 180 countries, and partnerships with Google, Hasbro, McDonald's, and Nasdaq. Anna shares her philosophy on building corporate culture from the very first hire, and why a strong culture is the most powerful defense against the wrong people. We explore what separates the most successful founders from everyone else in the room, why big-brand enterprise executives rarely thrive in early-stage startups, and what a single question about travel reveals about how a candidate actually thinks.

Oz Rashid sits down with Brett Fitelson, Technical Talent Acquisition Manager of Seminole Hard Rock Support Services, to explore what separates transactional recruiting from recruiting that genuinely changes lives. Brett came into staffing the way most great recruiters do: sideways. A yellow sticky note, a cold call to Robert Half, and a lot of persistence later, he discovered he was built for this work. Five years inside Seminole, Brett has personally hired over 600 people across 18 departments, 13 states, and four countries. We explore the real difference between agency staffing and corporate recruiting, how Brett’s candidate experience approach turned two SVP finalists into lifelong advocates, and why the Five Ps (proper preparation prevents poor performance) show up in every conversation he runs.
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Benny Czarny is CEO and Founder of OPSWAT, a cybersecurity company he bootstrapped from a San Francisco apartment over 20 years ago. It now employs over a thousand people and protects critical infrastructure across 80+ countries. He is also the author of “Cybersecurity Upside Down” and co-producer of the cybersecurity docuseries "Into the Breach." We dive into Benny’s founder philosophy on patience with product go-to-market, why he views unsolicited resignations as a leadership failure, how he identifies the best candidates by the quality of questions they ask, and why he burns every 30-60-90 day plan he receives.