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Robert (Rob) Terlizzi

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Founder & CEO, Cognition Mesh
Founder & Chief AI Wrangler, Cognition Mesh | AI governance with teeth | 30+ years in enterprise infrastructure
Building: Cognition Mesh — AI governance with teeth. The humans make the calls. The fleet does the work.
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Cognition Mesh is a control plane for governed AI work, from assignment to accepted result. It brings AI agents, models and vendors under one governance layer on your own infrastructure, using your own AI and keys. Every piece of work has an owner and scope, independent review by a different AI, human approval for consequential steps, and a verifiable record of what was accepted. Context and decisions carry forward across sessions. Pro and Enterprise check high-consequence actions before they run. Solo shows what policy would have stopped, helping individuals understand governance before scaling to a team. Built for software development, research, design, operations and other workflows where AI does consequential work. Keep your existing task tools and agent frameworks; Cognition Mesh adds governance across the work they do. Explore the product or request a demo at cognition-mesh.com.
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I build AI governance with teeth.

If an agent can act inside your business, "trust us" is a lousy control. You need to know what it was allowed to do, who was accountable, and whether you can prove what happened. A dashboard with a green checkmark is not much of an answer.

That's why I founded Cognition Mesh. We help organizations put AI to work within clear limits, keep people in charge of the decisions that matter, and produce evidence they can stand behind.

I've spent more than three decades in enterprise storage, data management, and infrastructure: NetApp, Isilon/EMC, IBM Flash, Reduxio, VAST Data, Dell EMC, and Lightbits Labs. I've worked with Google, VMware, Facebook, Pixar, Intel, Adobe, eBay, and McKesson.

We run our own company on the work we're building. I care about what actually works, what we can prove, and whether it gives people their time back. The humans make the calls. The fleet does the work.

If you're putting AI agents to work and need to stay in control, message me. Or visit cognition-mesh.com.

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Experience

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C0rr3l8 - Founder · Cognition Mesh
Jan 2026 – PresentCurrent
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Founder & CEO · Cognition Mesh
Jan 2026 – PresentCurrent
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Head of Product Marketing · Lightbits Labs
Jul 2025 – Jan 2026
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Senior Product Manager Enterprise Object and Unstructured Data Solutions · Dell Technologies
Sep 2022 – Jul 2024
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Director of Commercial & Enterprise Sales · Code-X
Jan 2022 – Sep 2022
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Technical Sales for Western US · VAST Data
Oct 2019 – Dec 2021
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Sales, Production, Brand building · Francks Coffee USA
Jan 2019 – Jul 2024
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Founder and Co-Product Development Lead · Custody
Jul 2018 – Sep 2019

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Rochester Institute of Technology
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