# Sep Taghavi > AI transformation advisor to private equity firms and technology companies. Helps leadership teams identify AI opportunities, implement strategies, and build AI-driven operating advantage. Sep Taghavi (Sepehr Taghavi) works with growth equity and private equity firms and their portfolio companies on AI transformation: opportunity assessment, AI operating model design, agentic engineering, and hands-on implementation with leadership teams. Background: Bain & Company (management consulting), Element AI and Xanadu Quantum Technologies (commercializing machine learning and quantum computing), and value creation work with growth equity portfolio companies. B.Sc. in Engineering, First-Class Honours, Queen's University. ## Links - [Website](https://septaghavi.com) - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sepehr-taghavi-b3719145/)