Stephen A. Philip

Founder and CEO of Belmont73.ai, driving a unified vision across a portfolio of high-conviction AI ventures as both chief technologist and founder-operator. Stephen was previously designated at Microsoft to lead the first three generations of the ChatGPT revolution within Azure engineering as Director and Head of LLM AI. After nearly a decade at Microsoft, along with with career roots in Wall Street quantitative trading, investment banking, and AI consulting, he developed deep expertise in the mathematical and computational elements of reinforcement learning and LLMs long before they were in vogue. Stephen channels this rare cross-section of technical depth, financial acumen, and product instincts into a singular vision: multi-agent, symbiotic AI.

John Jiang, PhD

Chief Scientist & Strategist
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Based in Silicon Valley, Dr. John Jiang advises Belmont73 on core AI research, bringing a career perspective of not following trends, but starting them. Dr. Jiang has led AI and cloud innovation for over 30 years across elite institutions (NASA Ames, Stanford SLAC, Fermilab) and global enterprises (Lockheed Martin, DHS, FAA, IBM, Hitachi, Boeing, Google Cloud, and Walmart). His research at Fermilab contributed to the discovery of the Top Quark. As CTO of Lockheed Martin IT for Homeland Security, he built the virtual border and anti-terrorism big data system after 9/11 for DHS to secure the country and facilitate normal commerce. As Chief Research & Cloud Architect at Hitachi America R&D, he pioneered early industrial IoT strategy.

Abdullah Obaid

Software Engineer - Agentic Systems
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Abdullah is a full-stack developer experienced in building production-grade systems and large-scale LLM AI solutions at TRT World. Abdullah moves effortlessly across Belmont73’s frontend, backend, infrastructure and DevOps, delivering precisely the kind of versatility fundamental to startup success.

Ravi Devgam

Lead AI Engineer
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Ravi is a relentless problem solver who thrives in demanding startup environments. With Fortune 500 experience building large-scale LLM AI, Ravi rapidly develops Belmont73’s NLP, generative AI, and voice-AI pipelines and services, transforming complex problems into novel solutions.

Ojas Nirala

Designer, AI User Experiences
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Ojas doesn’t replicate design norms; he burns them down and rebuilds from first principles. Equal parts artist and UI/UX expert, Ojas leverages his multidisciplinary background in cinematography and visual design to anchor every interaction in intrinsic user intent.