About Blaine
Blaine Mathieu is the author of The River Doesn't Wait, a senior technology executive, strategy consultant, and facilitator who works with enterprise leadership teams navigating the agentic AI shift.
He is a former Gartner analyst and a multi-time CEO, Chief Marketing Officer, and Chief Product Officer, at both large public technology companies and private enterprise-software and industrial startups. His clients have included ABB, France's Total, Ford, China State Grid, and SoftBank, among others, and his work has spanned North America, Europe, and Asia.
He has followed AI closely for more than three decades. His first published work in the field appeared in Ray Kurzweil's 1990 book The Age of Intelligent Machines, and he now builds agentic systems of his own. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Affiliations
On a voluntary or advisory basis, Blaine is involved with several organizations:
- Post-Industrial Institute - an independent Silicon Valley research institute developing a post-industrial management science. Blaine hosts and moderates its Summit series and the Post-Industrial Voices podcast.
- Mindful AI Foundation - working to build the constitutional infrastructure for trustworthy AI. Blaine is a Fellow.
- Human Intelligence Institute - dedicated to protecting the value of human creativity in the age of AI. Blaine serves on its Advisory Board.
- Creatorbase - a community and media organization for creative business people and technology leaders. Blaine is a Founding Member.
Get in touch
The simplest way to reach Blaine is to reply to the monthly briefing. It goes straight to his real inbox. You can also write to him directly at blaine@riverdoesntwait.com.