Pelumi A.
Critic · DISC type CPelumi Akande is an AI Risk & Governance Lead at WM, specializing in building frameworks for trustworthy and compliant enterprise AI. With a background as a Technical Program Manager at Paramount and Disney, she holds a NIST AI RMF certification. Colleagues consistently describe her as a passionate and knowledgeable "program management rock star".
Her professional focus is deeply intertwined with her passion for operationalizing principles like fairness, transparency, and human oversight into real-world practices. She is driven to solve complex problems and ensure technology is deployed responsibly and effectively, genuinely caring about her teams success.
She architected Waste Managements entire AI governance framework from the ground up, overseeing 40+ GenAI and agentic use cases.
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They don’t appreciate bells and whistles unless backed by data. They like to do things independently and don’t look for support from others. They are quite likely to negotiate on pricing or other key terms.
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