The Langis leadership team brings together expertise in organizational behavior, enterprise technology, artificial intelligence, and the practical realities of building and maintaining professional relationships at scale. What unites them is a conviction that the most important professional relationships in any organization deserve better infrastructure than they have ever had.
Nicole Lockhart
Founding CEO & President
Fortune 100 leadership experience across HR technology, executive search, and financial systems. Nicole has operated on both sides of the enterprise equation as buyer and provider, bringing operational discipline and production level rigor to the Langis AI platform.
She architected the behavioral dimension framework that powers the Connection Intelligence, grounding every dimension in real world professional community engagement and enterprise validation.
Key Contribution: Designed the behavioral scoring framework, validated the compatibility methodology through live deployment, and built the continuous learning loop that systematically improves match accuracy over time.
Layne Frank
Founder
Vision, strategy, investor relations. Layne brings more than two decades of experience building professional communities, grounding Langis in lived experience rather than theory. As founder of Virtual 5 O’Clock with over 1,500 active members, he saw firsthand how even highly engaged professionals struggled to form meaningful, outcome driven connections.
Layne serves as the executive sponsor leading Ralphi’s distribution across the Microsoft partner ecosystem. His longstanding relationships with IAMCP leadership, Women in Technology, and Microsoft Community Summit West accelerated access to more than 30,000 partners in a fraction of the typical timeline.
Key Contribution: Developed the foundational Connection Intelligence framework, secured early Microsoft ecosystem access, and built the community engagement model that validated the CCA thesis before product development began.
Stefan Schulz
Founding CTO
Stefan is a former Microsoft engineering leader with deep experience building enterprise scale systems and platform architecture. He is the architect behind the Langis platform and the patent pending Connection Intelligence, a model agnostic intelligence layer designed to analyze behavioral compatibility across complex professional ecosystems. At Langis, Stefan leads platform design, system architecture, and the integration of evolving AI models into a stable, production ready infrastructure. His work ensures the platform remains scalable, secure, and adaptable as both the technology landscape and enterprise requirements evolve.
Key Contribution: Designed the CCA architecture and built the foundational system that enables Connection Intelligence to operate as a scalable, enterprise grade platform.
Edward DuCoin
Founding CMO
Category strategy and growth leadership. Edward brings deep experience in growth marketing, brand positioning, and strategic partnerships, with a clear understanding of how enterprise buyers evaluate and adopt new infrastructure.
He architected the three tier go to market strategy, positioning Langis as free for professionals, SaaS for organizations, and licensed infrastructure for enterprise deployments.
Key Contribution: Defined the Connection Intelligence category, led positioning and messaging, and built the go-to-market strategy across enterprise, ecosystems, and professionals.
Michael Wojcik
Head of Project Engineering
Product development, user experience, and agile execution. Michael led the engineering delivery that transformed Langis from architectural blueprint to fully complete, production ready platform.
He translated the technical depth of the Connection Intelligence into intuitive experiences across all three product tiers: professionals, organizations, and enterprise.
Key Contribution: Drove the platform to full completion, built the experience layer that makes Connection Intelligence accessible and practical, and delivered an enterprise grade product with disciplined capital efficiency.
