Courtlin Holt-Nguyen

About

Operator. Writer. Builder.

I'm Courtlin Holt-Nguyen, Chief AI Officer for Asia Pacific at Transient.AI, where we turn fragmented legacy systems into a unified, compliant intelligence layer for capital-markets decisions.

Before Transient, I led AI and data at QIMA and ran enterprise analytics for a Fortune 500 in Vietnam, bridging technical teams and business leaders so AI and analytics actually move the needle.

Focus

Where I put my focus

01

Agentic AI & governance

Production AI for regulated workflows, not demos. Controls, auditability, and human oversight by design.

02

Capital markets intelligence

Transient.AI: unified, compliant decision layers on top of fragmented institutional systems.

03

Analytics leadership

Fortune 500 BI, forecasting, and data architecture that executives will actually use.

04

Writing & teaching

Practical AI/ML and analytics for practitioners: shipping lessons, not hype cycles.

Experience

Selected roles

Current

Chief AI Officer, Asia Pacific

Transient.AI

Agentic AI for capital markets: governed decision layers on top of fragmented institutional systems.

Leads APAC engineering and contributes code directly to core products.
Focus on production agentic AI with controls, auditability, and human oversight.
Works across Transient’s Command Center / Caddie.AI stack for regulated markets.
APAC leadership cohort alongside Transient’s Singapore expansion and Series A coverage.

Prior · Nov 2023 – late 2025

Head of AI and Data

QIMA · Ho Chi Minh City

Global AI/ML strategy for a TIC company operating in 100+ countries.

Led a multi-country team of data scientists, ML engineers, BI analysts, and data engineers.
Shipped document intelligence, neural machine translation, and GenAI into core platforms.
Stood up MLOps practices (deployment, monitoring, cloud scalability) and data governance for self-service BI.
Spoke on graph-enhanced RAG for technical knowledge at Data Innovation Summit APAC 2025.

Prior

Head / Director of Enterprise Analytics, Vietnam

Philip Morris International

Enterprise analytics leadership and data stewardship for the Vietnam business.

Built the integrated BI / KPI platform on SQL, Python, Power BI Premium, and AWS.
Owned forecasting, geospatial retail analysis, ML customer segmentation, and profitability work.
Ran monthly executive business reviews against annual goals.
Delivered the first integrated combustible-cigarette KPI dashboard system (2021).

Earlier in Honolulu: investment specialist work with the State of Hawaii Employees' Retirement System (policy/risk monitoring on a large public pension portfolio), equity research and valuation support, plus cybersecurity and systems work (assessments, firewall/GMS tooling, endpoint and server management).

Writing & code