Ben Avicolli

President @ MyMethod AI

Ben Avicolli is the President and Co-Founder of MyMethod AI, an AI company whose mission is to bring defense-grade AI technology to service businesses. MyMethod doesn’t just build software, it builds AI Employees who become indispensable members of your team. Over the past year, Ben has deployed AI Employees inside real service businesses, and his message is simple: AI works when you stop treating it like software and start treating it like a new hire.

Ben has been building AI for 25 years. He served as re-founder of The Stratagem Group, transforming it from a $2M staff-augmentation firm into an $80M premier AI and mission software provider for the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. Following its acquisition by ARKA (Blackstone Private Equity), he served as President and General Manager, overseeing a $130M P&L and achieving a $600M valuation. During his 15 years at Lockheed Martin, Ben rose from engineer to business leader, ultimately growing a $400K internal R&D project into a $35M-per-year communications system for some of the nation’s most classified users. Ben is also an Adjunct Professor at Temple University’s College of Engineering, where he teaches graduate-level courses in AI for Managers, Persuasive Pitches, and the Science of Process Improvement. He holds a computer engineering degree from Penn State.

An adventurer at heart, he has explored all 50 states and six continents, from summiting Kilimanjaro to polar plunging in Antarctica. Ben lives in the Philadelphia area with his wife and three children, all avid four-for-four Philly sports phans.

• 2026