Joel Kandy

Joel Kandy is the Chief Business Officer at Lyzr AI, the New Jersey-based agent-building platform, where he runs global enterprise sales and pushes governed, production-ready AI agents into banks, insurers, healthcare and e-commerce. A Columbia computer-science grad who started on a Credit Suisse trading-tech desk, he spent the 2010s selling security and intelligence software in heavily regulated markets at ThetaRay, KELA, CipherTrace (acquired by Mastercard) and IronVest before betting on agentic AI. He argues, loudly and often on LinkedIn, that banks are stalled not by the models but by operating discipline.