Ralph Poole

Ralph Poole

Ralph Poole is the Managing Partner at Semantic Modeling LLC, a company that specializes in implementing Large Language Models (LLMs), constructing semantic models, and building graph databases.12 He is known for his expertise in business strategy, technology consultancy, and academic leadership.1

Poole has over four decades of global operating experience and has held significant leadership positions at Capgemini and Ernst & Young as Chief Knowledge Officer and Director, respectively.1 He was also a Partner at Bridge Consulting International and served as a manager at the Boston Consulting Group.1

In academia, Poole is a lecturer in Information & Knowledge Strategy at the Columbia University School of Professional Studies.13 He teaches courses on Digital Product Innovation, Findability, Semantic Modeling and Computational Classification, and Knowledge Processes, Practices, and Governance.1 His research focuses on enhancing precision and consistency in AI-generated outputs by combining LLMs with structured data and curated knowledge sources.1

Poole holds an M.S.L.S. from Simmons College and a B.A. from Ithaca College.1 He is an active member of the Program Curriculum Committee for the Information & Knowledge Strategy program at Columbia University, where he helps shape the program's direction and content.1