Steele Billings

President, Gloo AI Gloo

Last Reviewed: September 28, 2026

Executive Summary

Steele Billings is President of Gloo AI, the artificial intelligence division of Gloo, the Boulder, Colorado technology platform for churches, ministries and faith-based nonprofits, which listed on Nasdaq in November 2025. Gloo describes him as the founder of Gloo AI and as a faith technology leader with 15 years of experience in data, products and partnerships. He built its case for “values-aligned” AI: models and standards meant to reflect the values of the organizations using them, and to measure whether AI supports human flourishing. He was Gloo’s Chief AI Officer before taking the division president title, and he is one of three division presidents, alongside the heads of Gloo Media Network and Gloo 360.

Career Highlights

• President, Gloo AI, listed among Gloo’s division presidents on its leadership page.
• Previously Chief AI Officer of Gloo, the title Gloo used for him in its February 2025 announcements.
• Named an executive officer of Gloo Holdings, LLC in its January 2025 Form D filing with the SEC.
• Led the creation of the Flourishing AI Standards and Benchmark, Gloo’s framework for measuring how AI contributes to well-being.
• Launched the Gloo AI Hackathons, which Gloo says have produced more than 175 new AI technologies, and the Gloo AI Venture Accelerator for faith-driven founders.
• Company spokesman for Gloo Open, Gloo AI Licensing, the XRI Global acquisition and Gloo AI Studio.

Professional Journey

Gloo’s own account describes Billings as a faith technology leader who has spent about 15 years building data, products and partnerships across the global faith ecosystem, and as the founder of Gloo AI. Gloo does not name any earlier employer, and no filing or dated release does either.

Gloo was founded by Scott and Theresa Beck. It connects churches and ministry leaders with resources, data, funding and technology, and its executive chairman and head of technology is former Intel chief executive Pat Gelsinger. Billings’s job has been to give that platform an AI strategy. The central idea, which he has repeated in public, is that the organizations Gloo serves need AI they can trust to reflect their own values. His work on the Flourishing AI Standards and Benchmark draws on the Global Flourishing Study to test models on criteria such as community engagement, family life, spiritual formation and accuracy to religious texts.

As Chief AI Officer in early 2025 he fronted several launches in a row. In February 2025 Gloo introduced Gloo Open, an open-source initiative that adapts open models such as those from Meta and Mistral through Gloo’s own training pipeline. Billings said “open ecosystems are far more powerful than closed ones”. Later that month it launched Gloo AI Licensing, a platform to pay values-based content creators when their work is used in AI. He argued that “human-generated content” must not be “overtaken or suppressed by machine-created material”. At the NRB convention that month Gloo AI was a platinum sponsor, and Billings presented on its tools for media organizations.

Gloo Holdings listed on Nasdaq in November 2025. By then Billings was president of Gloo AI. That month Gloo acquired XRI Global, a multilingual and voice AI company, to extend its models to languages that current AI systems largely ignore. Billings described the deal as a step toward closing that gap. In March 2026 the division launched Gloo AI Studio, a development platform with OpenAI-compatible APIs and built-in governance and values-alignment controls. Of that launch he said, “AI infrastructure decisions made today will shape how intelligence is distributed and trusted for decades.” Gloo also credits him with starting the Gloo AI Hackathons and the AI Venture Accelerator, which gives faith-driven founders data, mentoring and capital.

Education

No education record was found in any first-party or filing source.