Khuong Le-Nguyen

Khuong (Leo) Le is a professor-turned-entrepreneur and co-founder of MoirAI, an advanced analytics company based in Denver, Colorado, and DreamWeldTech, a UK-based startup building welding robots for the semiconductor, medical device, and aerospace industries. Previously, he was a full-time associate professor of management at the University of Colorado Denver Business School and Kent State University’s College of Business Administration.

He specializes in digital strategy, transformation, and marketing analytics. His research has appeared in A-ranked journals including Harvard Business Review, Journal of Information Technology, Information Systems Journal, JCIS, and Energy Policy. At Kent State, he helped design the university’s first nationally highly-ranked M.Sc. program in Business Analytics.

Beyond academia, Khuong has over 9 years of experience collaborating with tech companies in the Bay Area, Korea, and Israel, focusing on business models and applications of emerging technologies. He advised Algopix, an Israeli ecommerce company in Palo Alto that was acquired by Google in 2024. In late 2021, he joined Jason Calacanis’ syndicate to invest in Thalamus, a SaaS company serving over 90% of U.S. hospitals for residency (GME) data processing.

Khuong also mentors high school students at CEd on capstone projects in Software and Technology, Business Ventures, and Engineering Innovation, helping strengthen applications to universities such as the Ivy League, MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, CalTech, and Oxbridge.

He is currently faculty at Columbia University, teaching Digital Transformation and Digital Workplace in the MSc program in Information and Knowledge Strategy (IKNS).

Starting in September 2026, Khuong will join PwC Vietnam as an executive industry leader (Subject Matter Expert – Joint Business Relationship), leading the Digital Transformation Consulting Services practice.