Summary
Matthew Versaggi is a seasoned AI and technology leader with 12+ years driving enterprise AI strategy, R&D, and delivery across healthcare and defense, now serving as a Presidential Innovation Fellow focused on scaling AI at CMS. He has led AI organizations at Optum/UnitedHealth Group as Senior Director and Distinguished Engineer, founding an internal AI college and advancing cognitive and quantum computing initiatives with a patent-minded R&D approach. An entrepreneur and former CEO of his own consultancy, he blends hands-on technical depth (from ontologies and expert systems to modern ML) with executive strategy and program building. His academic roots in AI and business (MS in CS with AI, MBA) are complemented by professional certificates from Wharton, MIT, and others, enabling him to translate technical risk and governance into practical adoption. Known for injecting AI into “not-yet-smart” systems, he has a rare mix of public-sector, commercial, and defense experience plus a track record of mentoring and institutionalizing AI capability. Based in Plymouth, MN, he pairs pragmatic productization skills with foresight in emerging areas like quantum machine learning.
12 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Professional Certificate(s) Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Specialization, Professional Certificate(s) Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Specialization at Coursera
Masters of Science Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence), Masters of Science Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) at DePaul University
Professional Certificate AI Product Management, Professional Certificate AI Product Management at Udacity
Professional Certificate : Artificial Intelligence for Leaders, Professional Certificate : Artificial Intelligence for Leaders at Babson College
Professional Certificate Quantum Machine Learning, Professional Certificate Quantum Machine Learning at University of Toronto
Professional Certificate Quantum Computing with Qiskit, Professional Certificate Quantum Computing with Qiskit at Manning Publications - Live Project
Professional Certificate Robotic Process Automation + Artificial Intelligence, Professional Certificate Robotic Process Automation + Artificial Intelligence at UiPath
Professional Certificate AI Strategy and Governance, Professional Certificate AI Strategy and Governance at The Wharton School
Professional Certificate Quantum Computing, Professional Certificate Quantum Computing at Keio University
Professional Certificate Quantum Computing, Professional Certificate Quantum Computing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science at Alfred University
Professional Certificate Digital Strategy and Business Opportunity, Professional Certificate Digital Strategy and Business Opportunity at Digital Marketing Institute
Professional Certificate AI for the CEO, Professional Certificate AI for the CEO at Noble Work Foundation