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Katrina Montinola

CIOs2Go Partner

Practice Leader

  • Artificial Intelligence

  • Start-up, Rapid Growth, and Pre-IPO

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Email: kmontinola@cios2go.com
Phone: 650-346-3880

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Katrina Montinola

CIOs2GO Partner

Katrina Montinola is an experienced technology executive and advisor with over 25 years of experience building and leading engineering teams in Silicon Valley. She offers deep expertise in software development strategies, recruiting top technical talent, managing onshore and offshore teams, and cultivating inclusive company cultures.

In addition to her extensive software engineering experience, Katrina is an AI specialist with certifications in Advanced Machine Learning Algorithms, Supervised Learning for Regression and Classification, Unsupervised Learning, Recommender Systems, and Natural Language Processing using Probabilistic, Sequence and Attention Models from DeepLearning.ai. She has also completed AI hackathons focused on 3D models, autonomous agents, zero-shot classification, multi-modal models, and other cutting-edge technologies. She also writes software for AI startup Strategic Thinking Systems.

Katrina began her Silicon Valley career as a software engineer at Oracle, taking on engineering management roles and leading the development of Oracle’s first web server.

She then gained broad experience across software startups and growth-stage companies. As VP of Engineering at early healthcare analytics firm Archimedes, Katrina built a 20+ person team and delivered a $15.6M grant project.

Having witnessed firsthand how the Internet transformed business, Katrina recognized AI’s similarly disruptive potential early on. The rapid pace of AI innovation combined with proven business benefits make it imperative for companies to adopt AI now, before competitors do. With the right tools and guidance, AI can be integrated incrementally without disrupting operations. The insights, efficiencies and capabilities AI delivers will rapidly outweigh initial growing pains.

Katrina leverages her extensive technical and AI expertise to guide clients in transformational yet pragmatic AI adoption. She provides strategic insights tailored to each client’s unique needs and objectives. With her guidance, companies can become AI leaders in their industries.

Katrina graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology with a BS in Information and Computer Science. She lives with her family in the San Francisco Bay Area.

“I have known Katrina as an advocate for entrepreneurs in new technology spaces when she moved from Oracle at the start of the internet in the early 90s. She has decades of experience in software development, product engineering, from the internet to AI, from startups to mature enterprises... and even to helping the government of an Asian country.”

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  • Katrina Montinola is a partner in the CIOs2Go division of 2Go Advisory Group and leads the Artificial Intelligence Practice Group. She is a technology executive with more than 25 years building and leading engineering teams in Silicon Valley, beginning as a software engineer at Oracle where she led development of the company's first web server.

  • Katrina Montinola guides companies through pragmatic AI adoption, identifying where AI delivers measurable business value and integrating it incrementally rather than disrupting existing operations. The work is tailored to each organization's objectives rather than applied from a standard template.

  • Katrina Montinola holds DeepLearning.ai certifications in Advanced Machine Learning Algorithms, Supervised Learning for Regression and Classification, Unsupervised Learning, Recommender Systems, and Natural Language Processing using Probabilistic, Sequence and Attention Models. She has completed AI hackathons covering 3D models, autonomous agents, zero-shot classification, and multi-modal models, and writes software for the AI startup Strategic Thinking Systems.

  • Katrina Montinola began at Oracle as a software engineer, moved into engineering management, and led development of Oracle's first web server. She later served as vice president of engineering at healthcare analytics firm Archimedes, where she built a team of more than 20 people and delivered a $15.6 million grant project. Her expertise covers software development strategy, technical recruiting, and managing onshore and offshore teams.

  • Katrina Montinola leads the Start-up, Rapid Growth, and Pre-IPO Practice Group alongside Artificial Intelligence, and works with companies at those stages as well as mature enterprises. Engagements typically involve an organization that needs senior technology leadership to scale engineering, adopt AI, or prepare systems for growth.

  • The pace of AI innovation combined with demonstrated business benefits makes early adoption a competitive question rather than a technical one. With the right tools and guidance, AI can be introduced incrementally without disrupting operations, and the insights, efficiencies, and capabilities it delivers outweigh the initial adjustment.