{"id":26685,"date":"2026-03-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trustpair.com\/?p=26685"},"modified":"2026-04-14T13:06:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T13:06:29","slug":"ai-is-not-an-it-project-trustpair-appoints-first-chief-ai-officer-to-scale-enterprise-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trustpair.com\/gb\/blog\/ai-is-not-an-it-project-trustpair-appoints-first-chief-ai-officer-to-scale-enterprise-adoption\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Is Not an IT Project: Trustpair Appoints First Chief AI Officer to Scale Enterprise Adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Co-founder and former CTO takes the helm of companywide AI strategy, building the governance model most enterprises still lack<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NEW YORK \u2013 March 12, 2026 \u2013<\/strong> As most enterprises struggle to move AI past the pilot stage, Trustpair<\/a>, the leading vendor fraud prevention platform for global enterprises, is making a different bet: dedicated executive leadership. Today, the company announced the appointment of co-founder Simon Elcham<\/a> as Chief AI Officer (CAIO) and the formalization of its companywide AI governance model. The newly created role elevates Elcham, co-founder and former CTO, to lead a structured, cross-functional AI strategy grounded in Trustpair’s core belief that technology alone cannot drive AI adoption. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to McKinsey’s 2025 State of AI report<\/a>, nearly two-thirds of organizations have yet to scale AI across the enterprise, still stuck in experimentation and never achieving companywide adoption. For fast-growing companies, the risks can multiply: unmanaged AI leads to data security vulnerabilities, compliance gaps and organizational fragmentation, all of which become harder to address as the technology grows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By bringing together technical leadership and people transformation under a unified framework from the outset, Trustpair has turned AI from a disconnected experiment into a measurable organizational asset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“AI was already appearing organically across teams, but without shared practices, we were only capturing a fraction of what was possible,” said Baptiste Collot<\/a>, CEO and co-founder of Trustpair. “Scaling AI isn\u2019t about deploying more tools. It\u2019s about aligning structure, security, and our people and culture around a common framework. Appointing Simon as Chief AI Officer is our commitment to making AI a permanent, companywide advantage, ensuring our teams are equipped, trained and engaged in this transformation.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simon Elcham, alongside Cyrille de la Bruneti\u00e8re, Chief Operations Officer and C\u00e9line Gallon<\/a>, Chief People Officer, developed the “AI for teams” program, a structured governance model built to transform individual experimentation into institutional capability. The program is built on three pillars:<\/p>\n\n\n\n