Mustafa Suleyman

In December 2019, Suleyman announced he would be leaving DeepMind to join Google, working in a policy role.

Suleyman subsequently worked as a policy officer on human rights for the Mayor of London Ken Livingstone before going on to start Reos Partners, a ‘systemic change’ consultancy that uses methods from conflict resolution to navigate social problems. As a negotiator and facilitator, Mustafa worked for a wide range of clients such as the UN, the Dutch Government, and WWF.

In 2017, the Information Commissioner (ICO) concluded a year-long investigation that focused on how the Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust tested the app, Streams, in late 2015 and 2016. The ICO found that the Royal Free failed to comply with the Data Protection Act when it provided patient details to DeepMind, and found several shortcomings in how the data was handled, including that patients were not adequately informed that their data would be used as part of the test. DeepMind published its thoughts on the investigation in July 2017, saying “we need to do better” and highlighting several activities and initiatives they were doing for transparency, oversight and engagement. This included developing a patient and public involvement strategy and being transparent in its partnerships.

In February 2016 Suleyman launched DeepMind Health at the Royal Society of Medicine. DeepMind Health builds clinician-led technology for the NHS and other partners improve frontline healthcare services. One the company's first projects, Streams, is a secure mobile app that helps doctors and nurses give faster urgent care to patients showing signs of deterioration by giving them the right information more quickly.

In 2016, Suleyman led an effort to apply DeepMind's machine learning algorithms to help reduce the energy required to cool Google's data centres. The system evaluated the billions of possible combinations of actions that the data centre operators could take, and came up with recommendations based on the predicted Power Usage Effectiveness. The system discovered novel methods of cooling, leading to a reduction of up to 40% of the amount of energy used for cooling, and a 15% improvement in the building's overall energy efficiency.

Suleyman co-founded DeepMind Technologies, a leading AI company and became its Chief Product Officer. DeepMind was bought by Google in 2014 and he became Head of Applied AI at DeepMind.

In 2014 DeepMind was acquired by Google for a reported £400 million — the company's largest acquisition in Europe to date. Following the acquisition, Suleyman became Head of Applied AI at DeepMind, taking on responsibility for integrating the company's technology across a wide range of Google products.

Suleyman is also a founding co-chair of the Partnership on AI – an organisation that includes representatives from companies such as Amazon, Apple, DeepMind, Facebook, Google, IBM, and Microsoft. The organisation studies and formulates best practices on AI technologies, advances the public's understanding of AI, and serves as an open platform for discussion and engagement about AI and how it affects people and society. Its Board of Directors has equal representation from non-profit and for profit entities.

Mustafa Suleyman CBE (born August 1984) is a British entrepreneur, activist and, most notably, the co-founder and Head of Applied AI at DeepMind, an artificial intelligence company acquired by Alphabet.

On 21st of August, Bloomberg reported that Mustafa has been placed on administrative leave because of controversy related to some of the projects he led. Mustafa led the development of Streams and the relationship with Royal Free Hospital which was widely criticized and received censure from the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).