Bio
AI Strategist · Fulbright Scholar
I'm AJ Sinapis — an AI Product Strategist and Fulbright Scholar with 7+ years translating business needs into digital products. My work spans enterprise AI and digital transformation for Fortune 50 clients, and founding technology ventures from a blank page to a working prototype.
My path isn't a straight line, but rather an ode to interdisciplinary knowledge. I studied economics, sociology, and data science, spent a decade across finance, management consulting, and academic research, and recently graduated from the Master of Information Management & Systems program at UC Berkeley as a Fulbright Scholar, with human-centered design training at Stanford's d.school.
I build responsible AI products and conduct research on human–AI interaction in product design, at the intersection of people, data, and regulation. I care about products that work in the real world: in regulated environments, across languages, and for people the default systems tend to overlook. This holistic approach — social science rigor plus technical fluency — is how I keep human context in the loop when the systems get complex.
Raw intelligence itself is no longer the differentiator. Every serious competitor can license the same models; the same reasoning and generation are becoming table stakes across every industry. What separates a working business from a demo is whether that intelligence is embedded into how the organization actually operates: its workflows, its approvals, its judgment calls — and that embedding is now entering its harder phase, as agents move from answering questions to acting inside a process. That shift raises the stakes on governance and trust considerably. Closing that gap, in institutions with very little tolerance for error, is the work I'm passionate about.
HAAS@WORK — UC Berkeley
Product Innovation Lead (Product Manager)
Jan 2025 – May 2025
Berkeley, CA
Graduate consulting program at UC Berkeley Haas Business School.
YourRights
Co-Founder & Product Manager
Jan 2024 – May 2025
Berkeley, CA
Big Ideas Competition Top 10 Finalist — an AI-powered legal platform helping US residents navigate regulatory change.
KPMG Advisory Ltd.
Senior Data Scientist — Strategy & Operations Transformations
Jun 2019 – Aug 2024
Budapest, HU
Management Consulting — embedded with Fortune 50 and financial-services clients under audit-grade governance.
University of California, Berkeley
M.S. Information Management & Systems (MIMS)
Fulbright Scholar. Applied AI, Data Science, Technology Strategy & Product Management.
Stanford University
Integrative Design Program
Strategic AI development and human-centered systems design for social impact.
Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
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Pázmány Péter Catholic University
M.A. Sociology, with Honors
Lifestyles, education, and medical sociology.
Corvinus University of Budapest
B.A. Applied Economics
Macroeconomics and econometrics.