Nancy Li Smith

A computer scientist by training, Nancy has spent her career building and scaling AI products across multiple industries. She held leadership roles at Meta and Microsoft, where she led the AI assistant platform for Meta’s Ray- Ban smart glasses and drove adoption of chatbot AI. As EVP of Growth and Strategy at BrightAI, she focused on modernizing critical infrastructure—and helped scale the startup to more than $100 million in revenue. In 2025, Nancy founded Boop AI to reshape the $355 billion market for travel commissions. Nancy has pledged 1% of Boop AI equity to JourneyToLead. org—yet another way of empowering women leaders.