February 17, 2026. London England

 

The leading next generation enterprise AI platform Cogito AI (“Making AI Highly Profitable for Your Company”) announced the appointment of the Honorable Gregory W. Slayton as its Chairman.

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Ambassador Slayton is a successful Silicon Valley CEO and Venture Capitalist who invested pre-IPO and served on the Board of Advisors of both Google and Salesforce. His firm Slayton Capital continues to selectively invest In tomorrow’s global tech leaders.

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Slayton is also a bestselling American author and a global philanthropist. Formerly he has served as a senior U.S. diplomat and Ivy League professor. After graduating from Dartmouth College magna cum laude Slayton was a Fulbright Scholar to Asia earning a Masters in Asia Studies with honors from the University of the Philippines. He then earned an MBA with Honors from Harvard Business School.

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Slayton has run Slayton Capital for almost 25 years and was a pre-IPO investor and a member of

the Board of Advisors of Google and Salesforce. Slayton has also been a Distinguished Visiting Professor at some of the world’s finest universities. Today he serves as the Chair of Family First Global – a non-profit charity that last year served 10M at risk families in some of the world’s toughest countries including Myanmar, Ukraine, and Pakistan.

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Andy Evans, Founder and CEO of Cogito AI, commented: “We are delighted that Ambassador

Slayton has agreed to become our Chairman and to invest in CogitoAI. Slayton Capital has an enviable record in investing in some of Silicon Valley’s most exciting early-stage companies. His counsel and guidance as we commercialize our Enterprise AI platform will be invaluable.”

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Ambassador Slayton added: “AI has shown great promise but to date real commercial results have been limited. The world class Cogito AI Team has deep AI expertise and the right techical approach to making AI hugely beneficial for all corporations. I was in the middle of the Internet boom and was fortunate to invest in some of the most successful companies of that era. I believe Cogito AI has a real chance to be the Google or Salesforce of the AI era.”

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For more information, visit CogitoAI.ai or email info@CogitoAI.ai