About

We build the systems we're hired to evaluate.

Our Story

Third Foresight was founded to solve a problem that compounds every year: the gap between what technology claims to do in private markets, and what it actually does, and what that gap costs the people who cannot tell the difference.

Our team comes from AI, data infrastructure, cybersecurity, enterprise software, and institutional product development. We have built production systems at scale. We have sat inside the institutions that your LPs work for. We have conducted diligence that changed the terms on which capital was committed.

That combination, technical depth and institutional fluency, is not common. Most technology advisors have not operated inside the financial institutions they advise. Most institutional advisors do not have the technical foundation to assess what they are looking at when a fund manager or acquisition target makes an AI claim. We sit at that intersection deliberately.

The firm operates across three practice areas: due diligence, manager readiness, and AI and technology. Each practice draws on the same core capability, the ability to assess, build, and deploy technology at institutional standards.

The Team

Three partners.
One bench.

Solomon Ray Solomon Ray · Silicon Valley

Solomon Ray

Managing Partner · Emerging Technologies, Ventures, AI/ML

Solomon leads Third Foresight's strategy, client relationships, and institutional advisory practice. His work sits at the intersection of emerging technology, AI, and institutional capital, advising organizations on AI strategy, directing technical due diligence on technology-driven businesses, and building proprietary software platforms for institutional clients. He holds an MBA from Cornell University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from UCLA.

Julian Dean Morais Julian Dean Morais · Silicon Valley / Paris

Julian Dean Morais

Partner · AI and Product

Julian formerly led an innovation team at J.P. Morgan London and was a senior product leader at Apple. He has 20+ years building and leading product and innovation teams across global financial services and technology. At Third Foresight he leads AI enablement, product strategy, and the technical assessment of AI-driven businesses. His background inside major financial institutions gives the firm a perspective on how AI is actually adopted, and where it fails, that no outside observer can replicate.

Dr. Wen-pai Lu Dr. Wen-pai Lu · Silicon Valley

Dr. Wen-pai Lu, CISSP

Partner · AI and Cybersecurity

Dr. Wen-Pai Lu is a cybersecurity leader and product strategist with more than twenty years of experience across J.P. Morgan Chase, Cisco, AT&T, and Verizon Wireless, spanning identity and access management, cloud security, and enterprise product development. He led the development of one of the first business-grade telemedicine solutions integrated into clinician workflows, deployed across three continents. He currently teaches graduate cybersecurity at Santa Clara University and holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Arizona, a U.S. Patent for voice-based mobile authentication, and CISSP certification.

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