Brent Stokes
Director of AI Strategy & Technical Recruiting
Recruiting Specialties
Search Focus
Chief AI Officer, C-Suite Executive, Vice President, Director of Data Science, Digital Transformation Director, Enterprise Program Manager, Chief Information Security Officer, and more
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Executive & Confidential Leadership
- C-Suite Executive
- Board Member
- Vice President
- Director
- Confidential Leadership Executive
AI, Machine Learning & Data Science
- Chief AI Officer
- Vice President of Artificial Intelligence
- Director of Machine Learning
- Director of Data Science
- AI Technical Director
Innovation & Transformation Leadership
- Chief Innovation Officer
- Digital Transformation Director
- Enterprise Transformation Director
- Product Strategy Director
- Operational Excellence Director
- Change Management Director
Strategy & Management Consulting
- Management Consulting Director
- Strategy Consulting Director
- Business Advisory Director
- Organizational Effectiveness Director
- Process Improvement Director
Enterprise Programs & Implementations
- Enterprise Program Manager
- ERP Implementation Director
- Enterprise Software Deployment Manager
- Systems Integration Director
- Technology Project Director
Technology Infrastructure & Applications
- Chief Information Officer
- Vice President of Information Technology
- Enterprise Applications Director
- Cloud Infrastructure Director
- Business Systems Director
- Infrastructure Manager
Cybersecurity, Risk & Compliance
- Chief Information Security Officer
- Cybersecurity Director
- Information Security Director
- Security Architecture Director
- Governance, Risk & Compliance Director
- Operational Security Manager
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Outside of Work
Brent enjoys rock climbing with his family, running, and golfing when he is away from work.
Brent Stokes is Blue Signal’s Director of AI Recruiting & Strategy, specializing in executive search for high-impact artificial intelligence and emerging tech talent. With over a decade of experience in deep tech recruiting and hundreds of successful placements, Brent helps companies—from pre-seed startups to Fortune 100 innovation labs—build the leadership and engineering teams behind tomorrow’s breakthroughs.
His work centers on the most transformative areas of AI: Agentic Systems, Robotics, Physical AI, LLMs and Foundation Models, Neural Networks, DSP, MLOps, Applied AI, and frontier model innovation. He connects organizations with visionary talent—leaders and experts who build generative agents, perception stacks, reinforcement learning pipelines, and scalable, domain-specific AI systems.
Brent doesn’t just fill roles—he acts as a strategic advisor. By aligning talent strategy with product roadmaps and funding stages, he helps clients scale smarter and faster. His approach is data-driven, confidential, and tailored to the urgency of hypergrowth tech hiring.
He has also successfully delivered talent across IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, SAP/ERP, and enterprise asset management. This broader experience gives him the agility to support clients navigating digital transformation, rapid scaling, or new product launches in any vertical.