Igor Jablokov

Igor Jablokov is the founder and chairman of Pryon, a Raleigh-based AI company focused on making enterprise knowledge accessible through natural language systems. Before Pryon, he built Yap, one of the earliest cloud speech platforms, which was acquired by Amazon and helped shape the technology behind Alexa.Earlier, as a Program Director at IBM, he led early work that foreshadowed Watson and co-developed an early multimodal browser. Jablokov holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Penn State (Outstanding Engineering Alumnus) and an MBA from UNCC. He is recognized as an Industry Luminary by Speech Technology Magazine, was awarded an Eisenhower Fellowship, and named Executive of the Year in Artificial Intelligence by the North Carolina Leadership Conference.