Nadia Hansen
AI Strategy Executive | Former CIO ($100M+) → Salesforce GTM | I’ve sat on both sides of the AI deal | Keynote Speaker | Top 50 AI Leader
- Role
- Limited Partner at Leonas Capital
- Location
- Las Vegas, NV, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Nadia Hansen
Most AI initiatives don\'t fail because of technology.They fail because execution, governance, and institutional reality are misunderstood.I\'ve architected AI adoption from both sides of the market.As CIO of Clark County, Las Vegas, I led digital transformation for 2.3M residents, managing a $100M+ budget and 200+ staff. I evaluated enterprise vendors, navigated procurement complexity, balanced risk, and drove responsible AI deployment inside a real institution.Now at Salesforce, I build go-to-market strategy for AI in the public sector, translating technical capability into measurable business value and accelerating product-market fit for enterprise platforms.Most GTM leaders come from sales. Most AI strategists come from product.I bring operational leadership, technical depth, and buyer psychology — because I\'ve been the executive responsible for saying yes or no to enterprise technology under real pressure.That\'s why I developed The AI Deployment Bridge™ — a framework for moving organizations from AI pilots to measurable deployment.What I focus on:→ Moving organizations from AI pilots to AI-native operations→ Aligning governance, risk, and deployment strategy→ Bridging the buyer–seller divide in enterprise AI→ Translating AI capability into revenue and operational outcomesBeyond Salesforce, I share these insights as: Keynote Speaker — CES 2026, Dreamforce Adjunct Professor — UNLV & Nevada State University Author — Hack to the Future (2,500+ subscribers) Top 50 AI Leader — for responsible innovation Book a keynote or training: NadiaHansen.com
Experience
Limited Partner
May 2023 — Present · Las Vegas, NV, US
Leonas Capital is a boutique capital and advisory firm comprised of female founders who back female-founded and run companies. Leonas, Spanish for lionesses, embodies the fierce spirit of collaboration that we believe will shift the current venture capital topography, where only 4% of investment dollars fund female founders. I\'m an early stage investor based in Vegas focused on enterprise / SaaS.
Education
University of California, Berkeley
Financial Accounting
2018 — 2019
UCLA Anderson School of Management
Executive MBA, Finance and Tech Management
2019 — 2021
University of Nevada-Las Vegas
Bachelors, Computer Science
2003 — 2006
Skills
- Teradata
- Program Management
- Requirements Analysis
- Project Planning
- C
- Troubleshooting
- Project Management Office (Pmo)
- Business Intelligence
- Security
- C++
- Business Analysis
- Software Documentation
- Sdlc
- Microsoft Sql Server
- Database Design
- Databases
- Business Process Improvement
- Sharepoint
- Training
- Testing
- Html
- Information Technology
- Java
- Integration
- Software Project Management
- Consulting
- Pmo
- Pmp
- Management
- Data Warehousing
- Sql Server 2000-2008
- Oracle Pl/Sql
- Sql
- Visio
- Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
- Business Process
- Pl/Sql
- Quality Assurance
- Network Administration
- Project Management
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