Zetta²
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Enterprise
builders. Now
fully AI-native.

Zetta² is a purpose-built, AI-native firm. Our founders have spent 25+ years deploying large enterprise applications and integrations together. Now we help enterprises understand the AI stack and turn AI investments into measurable business outcomes with any model.

02 / LEADERSHIP TEAM

A SHARED HISTORY. A NEW CHAPTER.

The people behind
the implementation.

The team that built, scaled, and successfully exited ZettaWorks is reuniting to launch Zetta². Applying the same proven execution model to one of the largest technology opportunities of our generation

Thomas Pash

Co-Founder & CEO

Jason Cardinal

Co-Founder & CTO

Keith Brenton

Co-Founder & CRO

Michael Lundberg

Co-Founder & COO

Co-Founder & CEO

Thomas Pash

Vision, strategy & execution

Thomas is a proven C-level executive, entrepreneur, and business builder with more than three decades of experience leading high-growth companies, technology businesses, and global enterprises through transformation, scale, and strategic change. Across his career, he has founded and led venture- and private-equity-backed businesses, built high-performing leadership teams, driven international expansion, and guided companies through significant growth, acquisition, and exit.

As Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Zetta², Thomas leads the company's vision, strategy, and operating model as it helps enterprises move from AI experimentation to measurable business outcomes. Zetta² is a pure-play, technology-agnostic AI-native enterprise transformation company combining proprietary products, solutions, workflows, and services with leading AI technologies.

Earlier in his career, Thomas served as CEO of ZettaWorks, a high-growth enterprise technology and integration company that was subsequently acquired by Perficient. His experience building and scaling the business became part of the shared foundation among the Zetta² founding team.

Before Zetta², Thomas served as CEO and Board Director of Hunter St. Hospitality and Pacific Concepts, Australia's largest hospitality and entertainment group, leading a business with more than 4,000 employees and approximately $450 million in revenue. Earlier, he served as CEO and CFO of Genan and CEO of ONTILITY, one of North America's fastest-growing solar and renewable energy companies, with more than $150 million in revenue and more than 300 MW of solar PV deployed.

Earlier in his career, Thomas held senior executive responsibilities spanning finance, operations, technology, strategy, and M&A for a global real estate and hospitality organization with a multibillion-dollar portfolio. He holds a B.S. with honors from the University of Houston and an M.B.A. from Pepperdine University's Presidential/Key Executive program, and is a Champion/Master Six Sigma Black Belt.

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Co-Founder & CTO

Jason Cardinal

Technology vision & engineering

As Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Zetta², Jason Cardinal brings a unique blend of scientific training, technology leadership, enterprise transformation experience, and entrepreneurship to the company's mission of helping organizations become AI-native. A physician-scientist by training and technology enthusiast by nature, Jason has dedicated his career to exploring emerging technologies and applying them to address complex real-world challenges.

He has held technology-oriented leadership positions as CEO and CTO, advised entrepreneurs, and worked in various sectors including healthcare, retail, and energy. His career includes CEO and CTO roles at Nidus and Lind Health, as well as leadership positions at Perficient and ZettaWorks. Jason has also engaged in transformational projects with organizations such as Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Tufts Health Plan, Novartis, Covance, H-E-B, PetSmart, El Paso, Dynergy, ISO-New England, Time Warner, Cablevision, and Cricket Communications.

In his role as Chief Architect at ZettaWorks, Jason was instrumental in establishing the enterprise technology, systems integration, and transformation strategy for both ZettaWorks and Perficient. He developed a deep understanding of how technology, business processes, and executive leadership must converge to achieve meaningful business outcomes.

Beyond operating roles, Jason has been heavily involved in creating innovative AI solutions and implementing them in clinical practice. At Nidus AI, he developed a collective intelligence algorithm that revolutionized clinical decision-making and significantly reduced surgical failure rates. He also contributed to the development of AI recommendation engines that matched patients with clinical trials and appropriate medical specialists, enhancing patient outcomes and saving lives.

At Zetta², Jason leads the technology vision and engineering strategy behind the company's AI-native approach. He focuses on connecting AI capabilities with enterprise data, applications, systems and workflows so intelligence becomes operational rather than experimental. His combination of scientific rigor, technology leadership and entrepreneurial experience is essential in shaping Zetta²'s approach to building practical, production-ready AI solutions.

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Co-Founder & CRO

Keith Brenton

Growth & customer outcomes

Keith Brenton is an enterprise technology and growth executive with more than 20 years of experience helping complex organizations use technology to transform operations, modernize their businesses and create measurable commercial value. He has built and led enterprise sales organizations, developed strategic partnerships, and worked directly with C-suite executives across energy, utilities, oil & gas, telecommunications, healthcare, manufacturing, and other asset-intensive industries.

As Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer of Zetta², Keith leads the company's go-to-market strategy, strategic customer relationships and commercial growth. He works with enterprise leaders to identify high-value opportunities for AI-native transformation and connect AI, data, cloud, software and engineering capabilities to tangible business outcomes.

Keith was a founding member of ZettaWorks, joining as the company's first seller and helping build its enterprise services business before rising to Senior Vice President, where he led the global expansion of the sales organization, including establishing its presence in Canada, Australia, and the UK, through the company's eventual acquisition by Perficient.

Prior to Zetta², Keith was a Client Partner at Quantiphi, where he sold Applied AI, Generative AI, data and cloud modernization, conversational AI, and MLOps/Vertex AI services as a Google Cloud Digital Leader-Certified Seller. Earlier, Keith held Enterprise Leadership, Key Account and Client Partner roles with IFS, IBM, Verizon Connect and Board Software leveraging a broad portfolio spanning AI, machine learning, automation, cloud, analytics, security, software and services. His career has included complex multi-million-dollar transactions, international business development and deep relationships across major energy and industrial enterprises.

At Zetta², Keith combines that enterprise network, technology fluency and proven commercial leadership to build a repeatable revenue engine around AI-native transformation.

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Co-Founder & COO

Michael Lundberg

Operational execution & enterprise transformation

Michael Lundberg is an enterprise technology and business development executive with more than two decades of experience helping large organizations modernize technology, improve business processes and drive enterprise transformation. As Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Zetta², Michael focuses on operational execution, strategic customer relationships, and helping translate technology capabilities into practical business outcomes. His career combines technical depth, commercial leadership, and hands-on experience building and scaling enterprise technology businesses.

Michael was part of the founding team at ZettaWorks, where he progressed from Senior Consultant and Project Manager into leadership roles, including Managing Director. He helped expand the company internationally, including co-managing ZettaWorks' first international office in Australia and later opening offices in New York and Irvine. After Perficient acquired the company, he continued working with Fortune 1000 organizations on enterprise technology and business development, helping identify and develop solution-based opportunities across complex enterprise environments.

Throughout his career, Michael has worked across leading enterprise technology platforms including Oracle, TIBCO, IBM and Microsoft, developing solutions spanning middleware, integration, SOA, BPM, portals and enterprise applications. His background gives him a deep understanding of how technology, systems and business processes must come together to drive enterprise outcomes. That combination of technology fluency and business development experience has enabled him to work effectively with both technical leaders and senior business executives.

Today, Michael brings that experience to Zetta², including his work with ServiceNow and AI-enabled workflows, helping organizations modernize operations, automate processes, and connect enterprise systems. He focuses on turning emerging technologies into practical solutions that improve how enterprises operate. His combination of technology expertise, business development experience, and operational leadership supports Zetta²'s mission to deliver practical, scalable AI-native transformation.

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03 / DELIVERY EXPERIENCE

Experience earned
inside the enterprise.

Our leadership team has delivered large-scale solutions for companies including:

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  • Shell logo
  • PetSmart logo
  • ERCOT logo
  • Waste Management logo
  • Quanta Services logo
  • AT&T logo
  • Tufts Health Plan logo
  • NRG logo
  • Siemens logo
  • Humana logo
  • Alcon logo
  • CenterPoint Energy logo
  • Dominion Energy logo
  • US Department of Energy logo
  • Apex Clean Energy logo

04 / OUR BACKERS

Smith

SMITH / NEWBERG ROAD PARTNERS, L.P. / BEEKMAN 514, LTD.

Zetta² raised a substantial seed round in October of 2026, led by Smith / Newberg Road Partners, L.P. / Beekman 514, Ltd.

Smith, with sales in excess of $12B, is one of the world's largest independent electronic-component distributors, offering supply chain services on a global scale.

Smith is also a lighthouse customer and provides an “FDE’s forward deployed workbench” for the Zetta² world-class forward deployed engineering team (FDET’s).

05 / WHAT ZETTA² MEANS

1042

one sextillion · 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Zetta is the prefix for 10²¹, one sextillion, a number big enough to describe the world’s data. Squared means that scale multiplied by itself.

For us, Zetta² stands for what happens when deep engineering expertise meets the power of AI. Each one amplifies the other. The result isn’t a small improvement but exponential impact: faster delivery, smarter workflows, and AI that moves from pilot to production in weeks.

Expertise × AI. That’s Zetta².

Let’s build a great company together!

As we scale and build a truly great company, we are looking for talented individuals that are passionate about AI and what we can accomplish together today, tomorrow and in the future.

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