Recognizing 100 CEOs & C-level Executives

Russ Blattner

Co-founder & CEO

SUPERWISE

Location: Nashville, Tennessee

Founded: 2017

Industry: Information Technology and Services

Enterprises adopting artificial intelligence need confidence that models behave as intended, which is why Russ Blattner, co-founder and chief executive officer of SUPERWISE, built a platform that treats observability as the foundation for trust.


Blattner’s journey blends technical range with product leadership across enterprise software. He led transformations that taught him how governance, risk and compliance shape outcomes as surely as algorithms. That perspective guided a move from building powerful tools to building the guardrails that keep those tools dependable in production. Earlier chapters included scaling advanced analytics at BOSS AI and learning what executives require from systems that must work every hour in real environments.


SUPERWISE exists to make complex deployments transparent and controllable. The platform delivers observability for governance so teams can discover, monitor and document model behavior across clouds and data centers. Blattner translates that mission into daily practice by connecting detection with action, aligning policy with telemetry and giving leaders auditable evidence that systems meet standards. The result is an operating layer that turns risk language into clear workflows for owners and operators.


The entrepreneurial build followed a deliberate cadence. Blattner recruited leaders who understand large enterprises, paired product design with field feedback and focused on features that reduce friction for security, architecture and compliance teams. Partnerships with global consultancies and cloud providers help customers implement frameworks that endure beyond a single use case. SUPERWISE supports regulated sectors such as healthcare, finance, manufacturing and digital services where reliability and documentation are nonnegotiable.


A five-year horizon positions the company as the governance hub for artificial intelligence at scale. Blattner is shaping capabilities that unify model inventories, policy enforcement and incident response across hybrid environments. Roadmaps include connectors that meet organizations where they operate and automation that routes findings to the right owners without adding noise. Education travels with the product so boards and executives can understand posture in plain language.


Industry peers note a leader who prefers substance over hype. Recognition as a Titan 100 Honoree reflects influence grounded in delivery, not headlines. Blattner is known for mapping complex ideas into steps teams can execute, for insisting on clarity in documentation and for building credibility with stakeholders who must answer to regulators, customers and employees.


Career highlights span keynote engagements at major forums, executive roles that brought advanced analytics to market and company-building that created jobs while raising the bar for responsible deployment. Pride centers on helping enterprises operate artificial intelligence with integrity and on mentoring practitioners who now lead programs of their own.


Blattner holds that durable systems are the truest yardstick of innovation. By shaping governance into a practical, product-level experience, he becomes a quiet authority in the AI ecosystem, positioning SUPERWISE to help organizations move faster on foundations they can trust.

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Impact Statement

“Trust isn’t a feature—it’s the foundation. I build AI systems you can explain, govern, and scale—and show others how.”

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