Stratos Davlos

About

Stratos Davlos is a technology executive and investor with more than 25 years of experience in AI, data and software development. He has held senior engineering and AI leadership roles at Apple, Reliance Jio and IBM, where he was Vice President for Watson, AI & Engineering.

He is Founder & Managing Partner of Talos Global Investment Group, where he leads technical evaluation of investments, and Founder & CEO of AIByte, which advises and builds AI startups and agentic AI platforms. He is an accredited angel investor and a limited partner (LP) in venture funds, and serves on the Board of Advisors of the Institute for Security and Governance at UC Berkeley.

Speaking

Current roles

• Talos Global Investment Group

  Founder & Managing Partner
  2025 – present
• AIByte

  Founder & CEO
  2023 – present
• Angel investor & LP

  Accredited angel investor · Limited partner in venture funds
• Project Voice Capital Partners

  Partner
  2022 – present
• UC Berkeley, Institute for Security and Governance

  Board of Advisors
  2024 – present

Previously

• Virgo Investment Group

  CTO & Operating Partner
  2024 – 2026
• Swift Medical

  CTO
  2024 – 2026
• Maya AI

  Fractional CTO · Board Member
  2022 – 2025
• Astra

  SVP
  2021 – 2022
• Innoplexus

  CTO, SVP & Managing Director · Board Member
  2019 – 2021
• IBM

  Vice President, Watson, AI & Engineering
  2018 – 2019
• Reliance Jio USA

  CTO & SVP · Vice President
  2014 – 2018
• Apple

  Applied Machine Learning · Engineering Management
  2010 – 2014
• CRM Knowledge Beam

  Founder & CEO
  2010 – 2011
• Kaidara Software

  CTO
  2009 – 2010
• eGain

  Chief Scientist · Worldwide VP Professional Services
  2001 – 2009

Education & certifications

• Yale School of Management

  Executive Education · Leading Effective Decision-Making (2019)
• Cranfield University

  MSc, Artificial Intelligence
• Hellenic Mediterranean University (HMU)

  BSc, Mechanical Engineering · Specialty in thermodynamics · Dissertation in robotics
• IBM

  Enterprise Design Thinking – Team Essentials for AI
  2019

Patents

• System and method for name entity disambiguation with latent topic and deep graph analysis

  US 11,243,985 B2
  2022
• System and method for providing a response to a user query using a visual assistant

  US 2021/0124555 A1
  2021
• Automated troubleshooting system and method for performing an action on a user device

  IN 201821013755
  2019
• System and method for blocking or allowing a call based on user credentials

  IN 201721020337
  2019
• System and method of virtual multimedia contact bot

  IN 201821015878
  2019
• System and method of intelligent bot diagnostics and self-troubleshooting of in-service customer experience

  India
• An automated synthesis method to design a new machine learning model with dynamic prediction observations

  US · Filed
  2019
• Cloud-based diagnostics and remediation

  US · Apple
  2014
• Systems and methods for generating search queries

  US 2013/0254176 A1 · Apple
  2013
• Systems and methods for optimizing search engine performance

  US 2013/0254177 A1 · Apple
  2013
• Systems and entropy-based methods for generating queries

  US · Apple
  2013
• Improving the relevancy of search and document similarity systems

  US · Apple
  2013
• Method and apparatus for a conversational query interface to information retrieval systems

  US · Inference
  2001

Board & nonprofit

• REvive Greece

  Member, Board of Directors · Nonprofit re-skilling the workforce in computer science and AI
  2019 – present

Focus areas

• Agentic AI
• Machine learning
• Federated learning
• Natural language understanding
• Computer vision
• Data strategy
• Software architecture
• Venture capital
• Angel investing

Elsewhere