{"id":59233,"date":"2025-12-12T15:30:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/59233\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T15:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:30:06","slug":"ai-strike-team-adds-multiple-local-ceos-to-leadership-board-in-move-to-become-strike-team-2-0%e2%80%b2-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/59233\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Strike Team adds multiple local CEOs to leadership board in move to become \u2018Strike Team 2.0\u2032 \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The AI Strike Team is rebooting as Strike Team 2.0, adding a number of local CEOs to its leadership board as it looks to 2026 and beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The Strike Team was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/inno\/stories\/news\/2025\/01\/29\/ai-strike-team-unveils-itself.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first established in January of 2025<\/a>, launching to make strategic asks for the region\u2019s AI efforts. Most recently, those efforts included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2025\/12\/03\/waymo-start-taxi-testing-downtown.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">successfully pitching robotaxi firm Waymo to begin testing the Pittsburgh region<\/a>, and past efforts include identifying shovel-ready sites for possible data centers and commissioning an analysis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2025\/06\/03\/ai-strike-team.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">quantifying the economic opportunity of AI for Western Pennsylvania<\/a>. On January 1, the team is adding many executives from local companies from across a wide range of backgrounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The newly announced additions are Dr. Shiv Rao, CEO of unicorn medtech startup Abridge; Toby Rice, the president and CEO of natural gas producer EQT Corp.; Joe Mastrangelo, CEO of Eos Energy Enterprises, an energy storage company that recently made the decision to move its headquarters to Pittsburgh; Mike Keslar, president of BNY Pennsylvania; Michael Pohl, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/organization\/google\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google<\/a>\u2018s local site lead; Sunil Wadhwani, co-founder of Mastech Inc. and an AI investor; Rob Cherry, CEO of Partner4Work; Martial Hebert, dean of CMU\u2019s School of Computer Science; and Abby Smith, president and CEO of Team Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2025\/12\/10\/ai-strike-team-adds-multiple-local-ceos.html?ana=wpxi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2025\/12\/10\/ai-strike-team-adds-multiple-local-ceos.html?ana=wpxi\">Click here to read more from our partners at the Pittsburgh Business Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92025 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The AI Strike Team is rebooting as Strike Team 2.0, adding a number of local CEOs to its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[32319,278,32315,2088,1609,7933,112,7820,4740,2328,31242,32321,4688,17126,3777,296,32322,32318,32323,28,73,75,74,32320,8039,32316,32317,29133],"class_list":["post-59233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-abridge","tag-ai","tag-ai-strike-team","tag-area","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-carnegie-mellon-university","tag-ceo","tag-cmu","tag-computer","tag-energy","tag-eqt","tag-eqt-corp","tag-executive","tag-google","tag-investor","tag-local","tag-mastech-inc","tag-medtech","tag-partner4work","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-producer","tag-science","tag-strike-team","tag-unicorn","tag-waymo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}