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Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
Biography
Lutz Finger is a Silicon Valley technologist and Cornell faculty member with more than 20 years of experience building AI-driven products and platforms at Google, LinkedIn, and Snap. He is a serial entrepreneur whose companies include R2Decide, acquired in 2025, and Fisheye Analytics, acquired in 2013. He currently leads AI strategy at XGEN AI, where he develops next generation generative retail solutions.
Finger teaches several master’s level courses on AI and product development. His eCornell certificate program offers an end to end guide to using AI to create measurable business value and has helped executives worldwide move from AI concepts to real implementations.
He is also a frequent Forbes contributor on AI and the future of commerce. Finger is a venture partner at Cherry Ventures, serves on multiple advisory boards, and has advised and invested in data centric companies across the United States and Europe. He holds an MBA from INSEAD and an master’s degree in quantum physics from TU Berlin.
Recent Courses
- NBA 6145 - AI Strategy and Applications
- BANA 6070 - Designing and Building AI Solutions
- NBA 6070 - Designing and Building AI Solutions
- NBAE 6170 - Designing and Building AI Solutions
- NBAB 6170 - Designing and Building AI Solutions
- NBAY 6170 - Designing & Building AI Solutions
Academic Degrees
- MBA INSEAD, 2004
- MA Berlin Institute of Technology, 1998