Eric Lohela
CEO and chief strategist
Twenty years in consulting and startups, including Director at Slalom. Trained in computer science and philosophy. Passionate about design and protecting wild places.
About Polk
For the work the world needs.
Polk is an AI advisory and execution firm. We bring collaborative intelligence to businesses and nonprofits to help them accomplish their mission.
Serious strategy and technology used to belong to companies big enough to afford it. We close that gap by turning what AI can do today into durable, useful capabilities that put what your company knows to work.
Who we are
The Polk senior team.
Kevin Magnan
CTO, product engineering
Builds the AI systems Polk delivers. Senior principal at Slalom; before that, research manager at the University of Chicago Crime Lab and a public servant. Master's in Data & Analytics. Passionate father and engineer.
Taylor Sittler, MD
Principal and executive advisory
Co-founder of Color Health and serial entrepreneur. Passionate about building resilience and giving back to communities.
Our delivery teams. Engineers, designers and researchers on the Polk team, based in the US and Europe.
How we show up.
We run Polk on similar tools to what we build for you.
Polk is client zero. We have learned these tools deeply by running our own business on them, and we keep testing before anything reaches yours.
Change the game, or keep it.
Some companies want to change how they compete. Others want to keep what works and win back their hours and their life outside the office. We build for both.
Senior people, your pace.
A senior principal stays with your work from scoping through delivery. You decide how fast we go and what the systems are trusted to do.