Aboitiz Data Innovation Appoints New Principal to Power Cleaner Energy and Increase its Accessibility across APAC

Ex-APAC Managing Director of Element AI joins ADI to accelerate the progress of DSAI solutions for Power in the region.

Singapore, 27 October 2021 – Today, Aboitiz Data Innovation (ADI) officially announced the appointment of prominent AI specialist Luis Gonzalez to the role of Principal, Data Science & AI (Power Industry). Luis will play a key part in advancing ADI’s mission to improve lives through data science and AI (DSAI), by leading the organization’s strategic initiatives in Power.

Prior to his appointment, Luis worked with ADI as a data science advisor for the power industry. In a full-time capacity, he will be responsible for leading ADI’s development strategy for DSAI solutions for power
businesses in distribution and generation, with a focus on emissions reduction, operational efficiency and safety.

Luis Gonzalez, Principal, Data Science & AI, ADI

Commenting on his new position, Luis Gonzalez, Principal, Data Science & AI (Power Industry), ADI said: “I’m excited to be part of ADI’s journey in building a roadmap for the implementation of AI that is sustainable and manageable for developing economies across Asia-Pacific. This is especially important for the power industry as we need to find more ways to create clean energy and increase its accessibility for communities in the region. I look forward to working with the talented people in ADI to uncover new, concrete ways that will create value for Aboitiz Power as an organisation, its employees, its customers and the wider community.”

Luis was formerly APAC Executive Managing Director of Element AI, a Canadian startup co-founded in 2016 by Yoshua Bengio, the pioneer of deep learning and winner of the Turing award. Element raised over US$100 million in Series A funding to open a Southeast Asia hub in Singapore in 2017. Luis also had a stint at GE Power as APAC VP-Chief Digital Officer. He is co-founder of the AI Asia Pacific Institute, a non-profit research body for the Ethical Deployment of Learning Algorithms in society. He earned his postgraduate diplomas in industrial IOT, machine learning and deep learning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

On Luis’ appointment, David Hardoon, Managing Director, ADI said: “We are greatly privileged to have
Luis Gonzalez choose Aboitiz Data Innovation (ADI). Luis’s extensive power industry knowledge combined with his data science and AI (DSAI) experience supercharges ADI’s endeavours for the development and deployment of world-class DSAI solutions for the Power Industry.”