Clarence Lee

Biography

Dr. Clarence Lee is a tech entrepreneur, author, and educator with over 20 years of experience in researching and applying AI & ML to help companies grow.

He is co-founder and CTO of Eisengard AI, which deploys their proprietary AI sales agents specifically for PE-backed companies. Unlike generic sales tools that promise to solve everything, Eisengard focuses on where AI actually delivers measurable results. His experience deploying these agents for rapid post-acquisition integration and sales team scaling directly informs his research and teaching.

At Cornell, Clarence is adjunct faculty at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and Cornell Tech, where he teaches Machine Learning Applications in Business. He has authored multiple eCornell courses including Marketing AI Automation, Growth Marketing, and the comprehensive Digital Marketing certificate program. His research focuses on AI product-market fit in sales: identifying which sales roles benefit from AI assistance and which require human judgment that AI can't replicate.

His award-winning research has been published in leading academic journals and featured in Harvard Business Review and Sloan Management Review.

Clarence earned his doctorate from Harvard Business School, where his dissertation studied YC-backed startups and the freemium business model. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. He regularly speaks on AI strategy and product-market fit, and is open to speaking invitations.

Recent Courses

• NBAE 6780 - Machine Learning Applications in Business
• NBAY 6920 - Machine Learning Applications in Business
• BANA 6920 - Machine Learning Applications in Business

Academic Degrees

• DBA Harvard University
• MEng Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• BS Massachusetts Institute of Technology