Ken Judy

Ken Judy is an Executive Director in AI Products and Engineering with more than 25 years of experience in software delivery, technology leadership, and change management across media, publishing, financial services, and consulting. He specializes in agentic coding methodology and the modernization of custom legacy software systems.

Prior to Accordion, Ken spent eight years at Stride, now an Accordion company, as COO, CEO, then Senior Partner. As CEO, he kept the firm profitable through COVID-19, moved it from staff augmentation to team-based projects, and made it remote-first. Before Stride he was Chief Technology and Product Officer at The Daily Beast (IAC), where releases went from every six months to weekly and licensing costs fell by $1M. Prior to that he was Vice President of Technology at Simon & Schuster (CBS) and held roles at NYSE Euronext and at Oxygen Media (NBC Universal).

Ken’s focus at Accordion is building custom agentic software solutions and an extensible workflow for a human-centered agentic Product Delivery Lifecycle. The workflow puts AI agents to work across analysis, design, and development, with a person approving each stage, so teams move faster and stay accountable for the result. He favors measured outcomes over adoption metrics, and engineering practice over hype.

He advocates for agentic coding in Plan-Do-Check-Act cycles under human supervision. The AI analyzes the problem and drafts a detailed plan, codes test-first, verifies the result against the original goal, and prompts the human through a retrospective to improve the next cycle and reduce waste. A human stays in the loop and AI-generated code is verified in small steps, not accepted on trust.

Ken holds a B.A. in Mathematics-Physics and Theater from Whitman College, a CTA coaching certification (ICF-accredited), the IAPP CIPP/US privacy credential, and Certified Scrum Professional and Certified Software Development Professional credentials.