SpecialityVP, Applied AI Lead

JPMorgan ChaseMarlon Avery is an Applied AI executive, engineer, founder, educator, and speaker who builds the future—and then teaches everyone else how to build it too. He serves as VP, Applied AI Lead at JPMorgan Chase, where he leads Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) integration and moves generative and conversational AI from experimentation into production at one of the world’s largest financial institutions. He is the CEO of AImpact, an AI education and workforce-development company created to close the gap between rapid technological change and the communities most at risk of being left behind. AImpact helps professionals, entrepreneurs, and everyday people develop the practical skills, confidence, and judgment required to participate in an AI-powered economy—not simply observe it from the sidelines. Through AImpact, Marlon partnered with Dream Machine Innovation Lab—founded by Van Jones—to create the Dream Machine A.I. × Library Project. Supported by Google, Chime, and Operation HOPE, the initiative brings free, hands-on generative AI education to underserved communities through public libraries. Marlon authored its four-track curriculum and built every workshop deck, live demonstration, and hands-on lab. He has led sessions across 11 cities and counting, training more than 2,000 participants—from students and seniors to entrepreneurs and career-changers—many of whom were using generative AI for the first time. Marlon is also the Founder & CEO of VoicePath, which builds voice automation and practical AI systems around the way businesses actually operate. VoicePath helps organizations answer calls, book appointments, capture and route leads, manage intake, automate follow-up, and connect AI workflows to the tools their teams already use. Its solutions serve phone-dependent businesses across healthcare, legal services, financial services, insurance, real estate, and other service industries, with clear boundaries for data use and human intervention. Across his education work, Marlon has delivered more than 100 workshops and led engagements in partnership with Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, Visa, HubSpot, the City of New York, and others. He also founded NextSteps DevCon and the Pledge to Equality Scholarship Program, which has awarded more than 10,000 scholarships to widen access to technology education. At the center of Marlon’s work is a single conviction: access to transformative technology should not depend on where someone lives, what they earn, or whether they already belong to the technology industry. Whether he is deploying AI inside a global financial institution, building systems for businesses, or teaching first-time users in a neighborhood library, his purpose is the same—to turn uncertainty into agency and ensure that more people have the opportunity to shape the future, rather than simply experience its consequences. He is based in Washington, DC. He builds to learn—and what he learns, he teaches.