Alonso Carriles

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Short bio

Alonso Carriles, Ph.D., is a former chief operating officer, an AI strategist and a professor of AI in finance at Universidad Anáhuac in Mexico City. He is the author of Tame Your AI, a professional’s guide to getting reliable work from ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, and he advises boards and leadership teams on operations and AI.

Long bio

Alonso Carriles taught himself BASIC on a TRS-80 Pocket Computer as a boy, and he has used computers as a working tool ever since.

He began his career at Procter & Gamble, on the startup of a new manufacturing plant in Mexico City, where he joined the plant leadership team. He later became a partner and general manager of a technology integrator, leading information technology projects for global banks, automakers and a national energy company.

He went on to serve as chief operating officer of a national public organization. He designed a Lean and Six Sigma operating model that the United Nations and the Organization of American States documented as a reference for other countries, and he led the Oracle ERP program that took the operation fully paperless. He also served as director of compliance at a listed Mexican financial institution.

Today he is a research professor at Universidad Anáhuac, where he teaches Artificial Intelligence in Finance in master’s and doctoral programs and publishes on machine learning and financial risk. Through Alonso Carriles & Co. he advises owners, boards and funds, and he still writes production code.

He holds a Ph.D. in Strategic Management and Development Policy from Universidad Anáhuac, an MBA from IPADE Business School and a degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Tecnológico de Monterrey. He lives in Mexico City and works in English and Spanish.

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Talk topics

  • Tame your AI. How professionals get reliable work from ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, and what to check before they sign.
  • AI in finance, without the hype. What models can and cannot do for credit, risk and reporting, with evidence from Mexican data.
  • Lean discipline in the age of AI. How operating controls from Lean and Six Sigma keep AI-assisted work accurate and accountable.

Media contact

Write to contact@alonsocarriles.com. Interviews are available in English and Spanish.