alec foster
chief agent officer & responsible ai lead · mma
I help enterprises ship AI agents that work in production and keep them accountable once they're live. At the Marketing + Media Alliance (MMA), I own AI transformation end-to-end and co-lead the AI Leadership Think Tank, running the sessions where 300+ CMOs and AI leaders decide what to build. When I advise a team, I build with them, inside the tools they already use.
- 0 shipped Claude Skills
- 0 trained marketing leaders
- 0 AI workflows built
- 0 frontier AI marketing experiments launched
Building agents at your company?
I help enterprise teams design, govern, and ship multi-agent systems through advisory engagements, executive workshops, and embedded build sprints.
- > agent architecture audits
- > responsible AI governance frameworks
- > exec & team enablement workshops
- > embedded build sprints & advisory
- > AI transformation strategy
- > custom agent and workflow builds
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about
At the Marketing + Media Alliance I run the agent platform and the training programs, and I set the governance rules for which workflows can run without a human. The other half of the job is external: I work with member brands and solution providers to test frontier AI inside live campaigns, then publish what held up and what didn't.
Before MMA I worked on product policy at Google, then FairShake, and interned at the White House. I hold an M.St. in AI Ethics & Society from the University of Cambridge (2023–2025) and a bachelor's from NYU in Media, Culture & Communication and Political Science. CIPP/US certified, IAPP member. Full bio and timeline here.
Recent speaking history includes AI4, POSSIBLE, Copyleaks, and MMA's own panels. I write The Eval, a weekly newsletter on AI agents in production. I run a portfolio of frontier AI experiments with MMA member brands, and ship open-source Claude skills and agent toolkits when I can.
Get in touch if you want me to speak at your event, advise on your AI rollout, or just talk through a problem.
