Luis Lopez Garay is a partner at Crowe and leads the firm’s AI Consulting and Forward Deployed Engineering practice. Based in Chicago, he brings a practical, business-first perspective shaped by a career spanning audit, ERP implementation and product development, and applied AI. He began his career as a CPA and auditor, later built an ERP module that Crowe sold to Microsoft, and now helps organizations identify high-value AI opportunities, build practical solutions, and move them into production. His focus is on making AI useful, governed, and grounded in real operating needs.