Mike Walker

About Mike Walker

I’m an entrepreneur, futurist, digital strategist, podcast host, global keynote speaker, and a best-selling author with a specialty in helping business executives stay relevant in the digital economy. I am able to bring paradigm-shifting digital transformation by leveraging leading innovation practices through my experiences with Fortune 500 leaders around the globe. I have found that my success has been driven from my pragmatic approaches to large scale problems, my ability to break down large complex challenges into something manageable, along with my insatiable need to bring teams together. What’s unique about me is that not everything has to be a major transformation to gain value, I understand how to maximize current business processes while also identifying new business models.Currently at Microsoft, I lead a cross-industry innovation team that focuses on advising senior leaders on how to digitally transform their business using concepts like digital ecosystems, digital twins, AI, IoT, and Blockchain. Previously, I worked at Gartner, as a Vice President of Technology Innovation research where my thought leadership is reflected in over 150 published research notes and over client engagements.My work can be heard, watched, or read in some of the following places- My new book \"REWIRE! Using the Digital Ecosystem Playbook to Reinvent Your Business\"- Hosting my innovation podcast \"V-Next: The Future is Now\"- Reading my articles on Forbes - Gaining my perspectives on Enterprise Architecture on “Mike The Architect” blogSpecialties: Strategic Planning | Business Transformation | Enterprise Architecture | Business Architecture | Digital Transformation | Innovation Management | Open Innovation | Digital Ecosystems | Design Thinking | Risk Management | M&A Due Diligence & Post-Merger Integration | Scorecards, Dashboards & KPI | Blockchain | AI/ML | IoT | SaaS | Cloud | TOGAF

Experience

1. Co-founder & CEO

   Stealth Startup

   Nov 2025 — Present

   I am a Co-Founder & CEO of a stealth startup that is reimagining how intelligence is designed, governed, and trusted at scale.We are building a new class of AI-native platform that acts as the operating layer for the modern AI first organization. As AI moves from experimentation to responsibility, the gap between what AI can do and what institutions are willing to trust has become the defining constraint. Our work is focused on closing that gap.The company’s mission is to enable systems that can reason, act, and adapt—while remaining aligned with human intent, institutional values, and real-world consequences. We believe the next generation of platforms will not be defined by speed or novelty alone, but by durability, accountability, and the ability to operate safely in complex, high-stakes environments.Our platform is being shaped to support multiple industries and future operating models from a shared core, with a long-term view toward building a category-defining company that compounds value over time. This approach prioritizes depth over breadth, architecture over features, and enduring relevance over short-term hype.