← Swenor ConsultingVol. 01 / 2026

The operators.

Every layer of the stack is owned by someone who has already done the underlying work in a previous wave of technology.

01Founder & Principal

Christopher Swenor

Strategy. Six founded companies, three exits, four years as Technologist in Residence at Harvard Business School.

Chris's career has been three platform shifts. Web at Farmers Insurance, Boston University, and Zmags (acquired by The Gores Group). SaaS and mobile as CTO of Vsnap (acquired by Gainsight) and co-founder/CEO of East Coast Product. Now blockchain and AI as co-founder and CEO of Reach Platform, co-founder of the Voi Network L1 blockchain, and CEO of Block Authority Inc.

From 2016 to 2020 he served as Technologist in Residence at Harvard Business School, coaching HBS founders on their startup concepts. He spent more than five years as a volunteer Technical Advisor at Resilient Coders, a Boston program that teaches web technology to underserved and incarcerated teens. The strategist who has been on the frontier three times, now running the firm built around that experience.

Henrik Soerensen

Principal AI Solutions Architect

Vice President of Engineering at MGM+ and Amazon Prime Video. Led a 34-person organization at 99.999% uptime.

Henrik owns the question of what to build. Nearly a decade at MGM+ / MGM Studios, eventually Vice President for Engineering of a 34-person organization that he continued to lead in Amazon Prime Video after the 2022 acquisition. Ran a streaming service at 99.999% uptime and 29ms mean API latency. Drove the post-acquisition technical and security alignment between MGM+ and Amazon.

Post-Amazon, he helped take the Voi Network L1 blockchain from zero to a $150 million fully diluted valuation. Currently building agentic AI products independently, including an ADA compliance SaaS and a full TypeScript/React/Electron rewrite of a legacy Win32 Fortran application, while advising on NIST 800-171 compliance. Author of `claude-control`, an open-source tool for running Claude Code as a background service.

Jay McCarthy, PhD

Chief Scientist

PhD in Computer Science, Brown. Co-creator of the Racket programming language. 32 peer-reviewed publications.

Jay is the depth behind the work. PhD in Computer Science from Brown, fifteen years as a university professor, core contributor to the Racket programming language, co-founder and CTO of Reach (a smart contract platform built on formal verification). 32 peer-reviewed publications across the top venues in programming languages and security, co-author of 'The Racket Manifesto' and 'A Programmable Programming Language' in Communications of the ACM.

His career has been spent on one question: how do you prove that a piece of software does what you claim it does? At Swenor, that lens applies to engagements where 'usually correct' is not the bar. Agent systems in regulated industries. Code generation pipelines that touch production. AI in fintech, healthcare, compliance, and anywhere a wrong answer has real consequences.

Angela María Cañón Piñeros

Director of AI Service Design

MSc in Communication Design, Politecnico di Milano. Thirteen years designing service experiences across four continents. Trilingual.

Angela designs the part of an AI product that everyone forgets about until it goes wrong: the journey. How a feature fits into a user's day, how it onboards them, how it handles edge cases, how it recovers from a wrong answer, how it hands off to a human, and how all of those pieces hold together as one coherent experience instead of a chat box bolted onto a website.

MSc in Communication Design from Politecnico di Milano, with additional training in innovation management from Universität Leipzig and a specialization in DesignOps. Thirteen years designing service experiences across Bogotá, Milan, Chandigarh, and London, six of them directing the Communication Design program at Universidad El Bosque. Holds AWS Partner Cloud Economics and Technical accreditations. Trilingual across Spanish, English, and Italian.

Marlene J. Colón Torres, PhD

Director of AI Adoption

PhD in industrial-organizational psychology. Seventeen years of organizational development across private, public, and non-profit sectors.

Marlene runs the human side of every Swenor engagement. PhD in industrial-organizational psychology, professional coaching certification, seventeen years of organizational development work across private companies, government agencies, and non-profits.

Her focus is the team member quietly googling whether their job is about to disappear, the manager who has not slept since the CEO said 'AI' at the all-hands, the fifteen-year veteran who feels like the ground is moving under them. She starts with the fear, not the tool, and walks people into AI at the pace they can actually handle, in the voice they actually trust. Currently Academic Leader of the School of Health and Sciences at Universidad del Sagrado Corazón.