— Raffi is a NYC-based Field CTO and Account Technical Leader @ IBM, helping financial services clients bring AI + automation into production. His recent research spans AI agent reliability, LLM output drift, and a determinism-faithfulness assurance harness to examine how consistently AI systems make decisions and whether the actions behind those decisions can be reproduced and audited.

Raffi advises Nameless, a data platform that automates commercial reporting and workflows for brands in the attention economy. He also co-founded Bad Company, a creative collective where he manages venue partnerships and collaborates with media brands on pop-up activations and technology projects. Alongside this work, he continues to DJ, keeping music central to his creative life. Previously, he co-founded and served as COO @ indify, a music data startup developed through Colgate’s Thought Into Action incubator and General Assembly’s business accelerator. He holds a BA in Mathematical Economics from Colgate University, bringing together technical expertise, applied research, and creative experience at the intersection of tech and media.