Progress stalls wherever nobody will price the risk.
Nearly fifty years of refinement since 1970 made the old economy efficient, and intelligent machines will decide whether we build a new one.
GERRY H Sun
WHAT I BELIEVE THAT MOST PEOPLE DON’T
Most AI today makes existing work efficient. That pays, and I help companies capture it. The larger prize sits where machines act around people, and it goes to whoever earns trust a skeptic can check: incident records, liability someone will sign, a product a family will let into the house.
Gerry H. Sun, who publishes as Gerard Sun, founded GRDigital, an AI-native practice in Los Angeles
for enterprises and startups, and created GOS™, the Growth Orchestration System. GOS™ connects strategy, AI readiness, platform intelligence, go-to-market and behavioral adoption into one system.
The Economics of Service Robots
Every service robotics company knows the tension: the robot performs as promised, but the business case weakens when staff must recover exceptions around it. This case study explores the economics of a four-robot hospital deployment, showing how nurse time returned, workflow burden, utilization, and exception recovery determine whether automation creates measurable value or simply moves the work elsewhere.
Gerard has built corporate strategies, digital products and technology teams across North America, Europe and Asia, in senior roles at Fortune 500 companies and startups. Industries and clients include:
Financial Services
Sports & Entertainment
Transportation
Consumer Packaged Goods
Internet & Technology
Medical Devices
Agencies
Bank of America, HSBC, Allstate, The Hartford, Visa, MasterCard;
ESPN, FIFA World Cup, Disney, Warner Brothers;
Lexus, Nissan, Toyota, United Airlines;
Nestle USA, Wonka, Budweiser, Celestial Seasoning, Thomasville Furniture;
Nintendo, Microsoft, Pioneer Electronics, Toshiba, Yahoo!;
Danaher, USC Alfred E. Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering;
TBWA Chiat/Day, Saatchi & Saatchi, Sapient, WhitmanHart;
I'm a deep generalist in AI. I take early-stage startups and tangled enterprise systems and turn them into products people adopt. Strategy, AI readiness, product design and go-to-market, built as one system that compounds.
Progressive strategist and builder with broad cross-functional experience with a consistent record of driving measurable business impact in top-line revenue, P&L and risk management, M&A activities, and organization design, Gerard's educational curriculum vitae is as follows:
Stanford University
Certificate of Specialization in Machine Learning
Three Certificates of Completion in Supervised Machine Learning: Regression And Classification; Advanced Learning Algorithms; Unsupervised Learning; and Recommenders, Reinforcement Learning.
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Tensorflow, Neural Networks, Predictive Modeling, Random Forest Algorithm, PYTHON, Data Ethics, Reinforcement Learning, Unsupervised Learning, Unsupervised Learning, Artificial Neural Networks, Anomaly Detection
Microsoft Corporation
Certificate of Specialization in AI Product Management
Enterprise AI Product Management Fundamentals, Market Research and Competitive Analysis, AI Product Strategy and Roadmapping, AI Product Design and UX/UI Fundamentals, AI Product Launch and Post-Launch Management
University of Oxford
Certificate of Completion in Blockchain Strategy
Fundamentals, Opportunity, Ecosystem, Cryptocurrencies, NFT, Legal, Regulatory, ESG, Strategy
Harvard Business School
Certificate of Specialization in Strategy
Three Certificates of Completion for Three Courses in
Disruptive Strategy, Innovation Process, Global Business, Macroeconomic, Strategy Execution
Certificate of Specialization in Leadership & Management
Three Certificates of Completion for Three Courses in
Leadership Principles, Strategic Organization Design, Advanced Negotiation and Mastery
Certificate of Specialization in Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Three Certificates of Completion for Three Courses in
Disruptive Innovation, Design Thinking, Communication Plan, Performance and Risk Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Certificate of Completion in Applied Business Analytics
Conceptual Problem, Descriptive, Predictive and Prescriptive Models, ML, Decision Making
University of Southern California
Master of Business Administration
Executive MBA Program in Strategy, Marketing, Technology, Finance and General Management
University of California, Los Angeles
Bachelor of Arts in Design
Digital, UED, UX, UI, Advertising
