Mike Dion founded Finance AI Lab after more than a decade leading finance teams at large companies like Verizon and fast-growing startups across telecom, media, and entertainment. He holds a finance degree and a master's in international business from the University of Florida, and spent his career watching talented finance professionals lose hours every week to manual reporting and repetitive close work.

That frustration led him to build a training program focused on practical AI use, not theory. Mike has since helped thousands of finance professionals cut manual work through automation, contributing to over 150,000 hours reclaimed across teams he's worked with. He now runs Finance AI Lab as a hands-on space for finance professionals to learn AI skills that apply directly to their own jobs.