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Our team

We were in the AI vanguard. We built Sublimate because we knew the world would need and demand consent-first AI.

Emi Kolawole

Emi Kolawole

CEO
Emi Kolawole is a media and technology executive whose career spans The Washington Post, Stanford's d.school, and Google X. She co-founded Sublimate to give creators control over the AI trained on their data and likeness and give people everywhere, no matter what they look like, a persistently accurate representation of their likeness in an AI model.
Dr. Sarah Laszlo

Dr. Sarah Laszlo

CTO
Dr. Sarah Laszlo is an MIT, UIUC, and Carnegie Mellon-trained computational neuroscientist whose models of how the brain processes language laid the groundwork for modern AI. She worked on Google's Bard, Imagen, and Gemini models. Sarah founded Sublimate to give people safe access to and control over AI trained on their likeness and ideas.
Advisors
Asmau Ahmed

Asmau Ahmed

Alphabet executive and successful exited founder. A strategic titan in engineering scale, hyper-growth, and navigating the path from seed to high-stakes acquisition.

Christina Greer

Christina Greer

Former Google Senior Staff Engineer with deep systems expertise, Christina ensures the technical architecture is built for global scale and mission-critical reliability from day one.

Dr. Georgia Liu

Dr. Georgia Liu

With a vision for building something meaningful, Georgia is the founder of Causena and brings a blend of systems thinking and AI experience.

Kelly McCarthy

Kelly McCarthy

LVMH and Nike veteran and brand architect, Kelly brings the "Luxury DNA" required to position high-tech products as premium, must-have lifestyle icons for the world's most discerning consumers.

Maj. (R) Sandra Jackson

Maj. (R) Sandra Jackson

Army veteran, entrepreneur, and data specialist, Sandra drives operational excellence into the core product ecosystem.

Nick Sexauer

Nick Sexauer

Currently at Anthropic, and a Google X and Lucasfilm veteran, Nick provides direct access to the frontier of LLM safety, deployment, and the most advanced AI infrastructure on the planet.

Ian Colon

Ian Colon

An entrepreneur and master of video-driven communication and community curation, Ian has fused technical production with strategic storytelling to build immersive experiences that bridge communities and drive massive global dialogue.

Doris Tang

Doris Tang

An alumni of Google, and a strategy powerhouse, Doris bridges the gap between R&D and global commercialization required for massive market entry.

Symone Gamble Parker

Symone Gamble Parker

Internal communications lead at Affirm (ex-Uber & GoogleX). Symone bridges the gap between leadership vision and team execution, a vital asset for maintaining operational speed in complex, global organizations.

Colette Zakarian

Colette Zakarian

Twitter and DreamWorks alumna. Master of high-engagement ecosystems and digital storytelling, ensuring the brand captures outsized "mindshare" in a crowded attention economy.

Addie Conner

Addie Conner

Ad-tech pioneer and scaling expert with multiple exits. Specialized in aggressive revenue growth, data monetization, and optimizing the unit economics that VCs demand.

Chrysta Marie Burton

Chrysta Marie Burton

A 20-year film and television veteran, Chrysta Marie Burton has driven award-winning productions at Paramount, Netflix, and Bad Robot, bringing technical precision and inclusive leadership to every project she touches.

Dr. Jonathan Kabala Mbuya

Dr. Jonathan Kabala Mbuya

Jonathan is a machine learning engineer and researcher. He works across the full lifecycle, from building infrastructure to training and deploying models, and his earlier research at Adobe focused on detecting bias in text-to-image generation.

Peter Scott

Peter Scott

Peter is a creative technologist shaping the future of Media & AI by bridging legacy systems to intelligent, autonomous, and generative ecosystems. He is currently the Chief Strategy Officer at Play Anywhere, Inc., and prior to that was VP of Emerging Media and Innovation at WarnerMedia.

Dr. Maria V. Ruiz Blondet

Dr. Maria V. Ruiz Blondet

Maria is a research scientist with a Ph.D. in cognitive science and over five years developing machine learning algorithms currently in production. She is an experiments designer able to ensure data quality, validate models, and translate findings into product decisions.

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