Amazon
- Built global utility-billing platform; processed $2.5B+ and enabled $357M in savings in its first year
- Built greenhouse-gas accounting infrastructure—the same challenge Venturi solves for AI spend
Richard McKinney
I build systems that make complex decisions clearer.
My work sits where product, data, security, and operations meet.
Current work
The attribution layer for AI
Venturi resolves who owns AI spend and where adoption is taking hold.
Venturi connects fragmented AI evidence into a decision-ready attribution graph.
Designed and built Venturi’s current platform and data architecture
One place to understand how your company uses AISelected experience
Built across consequential systems.
Salesforce
- Led Shield Platform Encryption; Agentforce product leadership ($1.2B ARR, Q1 FY27)
Cruise
- Chief of Staff to Security VP for first U.S. city launch of driverless ride-hailing
Education
MS, AI & Machine Learning for Engineering, UW · MS, Cybersecurity Engineering, UW · MSc, Oxford · BA, Pitzer College
How I work
I look for the structure inside ambiguous problems.
I put security, evidence, and ownership into the system early.
I stay close enough to implementation to see what survives contact with reality.
Personal Atlas
A little more context.
I attended 11 schools and spent part of my childhood in foster care. At 18, I became my younger brother’s legal guardian.
I completed 3 majors at Pitzer in 3 years, then spent 27 months in Jordan. I learned Arabic and made roughly 180 home visits with Iraqi, Sudanese, and Syrian families.
I’ve run marathons in San Francisco, Santa Rosa, Seattle, and Yellowknife; completed a 10-day silent meditation retreat in Israel; bungee jumped south of Mount St. Helens; and skydived over Wadi Rum. Home is the Pacific Northwest with my wife.
Travels
Where have I been?
The criterion for a pin: I ate at least 1 meal there.