Rebuilding Enterprise IT for the AI Epoch with Former Avanade CIO Ronald White
Enterprise AI Innovators · 2025-12-17 · 28 min
Episode notes
On the 60th episode of Enterprise AI Innovators, hosts Evan Reiser (CEO and co-founder, Abnormal AI) and Saam Motamedi ( Greylock Partners ) speak to Ronald White , the former CIO of Avanade . Ronald brings deep experience leading global enterprise IT at Avanade and shares actionable lessons from orchestrating large‑scale AI adoption across business functions. Quick hits from Ronald: On moving beyond surface-level AI: "What are we going to get past these little parlor tricks and actually do something that impacts the enterprise?" On proving value through AI adoption: "A lawyer using general AI technology will 100 percent of the time beat a lawyer who is not. Period. End of statement." On early enterprise wins with AI: "You’re changing the game right away... and so if you don’t stay on top of it and iterate and iterate and iterate, you lose." Recent Book Recommendation: Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard - Like what you hear? Leave us a review and
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