About Me

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Professor Jeffrey Towson is a veteran management consultant and recognized thought leader in digital and AI agentic strategy.

He is the founder and managing partner of Agentic Org Now (formerly TechMoat Consulting), which helps management teams launch AI agent initiatives fast.

Jeff has worked with leading digital companies such as Alibaba, Huawei, Tencent, Ant Financial and Baidu. He has worked with traditional businesses including Four Seasons, Saks Fifth Avenue, GE, Express Scripts and Blue Shield, and with firms such as McKinsey & Co and Carlyle Group.

He is one of the most followed business analysts in Asia, with 2.9M+ followers on LinkedIn. He was the #1 LinkedIn Top Voice for Finance globally (2017) and a Top Voice for China (2016 to 2018), and has appeared on Bloomberg, CGTN, CBS News and ABC.

He currently teaches ecommerce at Alibaba, is an AI research analyst for Tencent, and is host of the Tech Strategy Podcast.

Previously, Jeff was Head of Direct Investments for Middle East North Africa and Asia Pacific for Prince Alwaleed, nicknamed by Time magazine the “Arabian Warren Buffett”. Before that he was CEO of Kingdom Hospital in Riyadh and a management consultant at Booz-Allen & Hamilton in New York.

He was a professor at Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management for eight years and has taught at CEIBS and Sasin. He is a past Fellow at Cambridge Judge Business School.

His books include the Moats and Marathons series, The One Hour China Book and The One Hour China Consumer Book.

Jeff holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, an MD from Stanford University School of Medicine and a BA in Physics from Pomona College, and was a Fulbright Scholar in Biophysics at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.

He lives in Asia and the US. He is a huge fan of Starbucks and anything Marvel (pre-phase 4). An ex-Burger King employee, he claims he can make 100 hamburgers in an hour.

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