Company · Team

The People
Building This

PhotonAI is assembled from the best engineers, researchers, and operators across Africa and the diaspora — people who have worked at the world's leading AI labs and chosen to build for the continent that needs it most.

Founder

Leadership

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Peter Alfred-Adekeye
Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Peter Alfred-Adekeye is the founder of PhotonAI and Boom Technologies Ltd — the world's leading blockchain-based commerce, payment and settlement system enabling everyone, everywhere to transact online without banking intermediaries. Self-appointed Chief Technology Officer of Africa, Inc.: building the payments spine (Boom), the cognitive spine (PhotonAI), and the orbital spine (NiO Spaceport) of a continent that cannot wait for consensus to move. Based in Zurich.

The Team We Are Building

We Are Hiring

PhotonAI is in the process of assembling its founding team — the best AI engineers, infrastructure builders, and sovereign compute specialists available anywhere in the world. We are looking for people who understand that this is not a startup looking for a market. It is infrastructure for a civilisation.

AI & ML Research. Foundation model training, multilingual NLP, low-resource language modelling.
Infrastructure & DevOps. GPU cluster management, DC operations, distributed systems.
Government Relations. Sovereign compute partnerships, African regulatory engagement.
Product & Developer Experience. API design, developer tools, platform product management.
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