Bradley Allen is a veteran technology executive, serial founder and AI expert with four decades of experience translating knowledge engineering and semantic technologies into commercial products and exits. He has repeatedly led architecture and R&D at startups and enterprise organizations—from founding three companies that produced market-leading search and streaming analytics products to shaping data platforms and labs at Elsevier. As Chief Architect at Merit and a Guest Researcher at the University of Amsterdam, he is exploring how knowledge graphs and large language models reshape trusted identity and the evolution of knowledge engineering. Based in Manhattan Beach, he blends deep historical perspective (a survivor of two AI winters) with current hands-on research, making him as comfortable inventing novel architectures as advising companies scaling open-source search services.
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