The first call when AI becomes a board-level problem.
Founder, inventor and author. 25 years building AI systems and the governance that makes them defensible.
I've led AI at Ericsson scale, run AI governance policy at Airbnb, and written the Springer Nature book on protecting citizen rights in algorithmic systems.
Boards, leadership teams and event organizers call me when AI moves from experiment to exposure: a regulator's deadline, an insurer's questionnaire, or a model nobody can explain.
Founder, operator and AI leader across telecom, security and enterprise platforms.
Founder
GrayCloudAI, Inc.
- Privacy-preserving AI infrastructure for regulated industries and SMBs: models train where the data lives instead of moving it.
- Rights by Design: the framework from the book, operationalized as an open AI skill.
Head of AI Governance Policy
Airbnb
- 69% improvement in compliance from AI governance built into engineering workflows rather than layered on after launch.
- Technical partner to Legal, Privacy and Security, translating governance requirements into controls engineering teams could ship.
Global Head of AI Innovation, Principal Engineer
Ericsson
- Led a 350+ person AI organization across three countries, through three country leads and nine area leads.
- Ericsson SnapCode: an Ericsson-funded internal venture built with Telstra, Telefónica, Verizon and AT&T, working alongside each operator's key account team.
- AI model development on Google Cloud, using BigQuery for large-scale data.
- Named inventor on US 12,445,470 (IoT blockchain DDoS detection) and Ericsson PCT filings.
Founder & CTO
4PIA
- Acqui-hired by Ericsson: the team and technology joined Ericsson after the platform proved out with enterprise customers.
- 20% increase in customer conversion from onboarding and product changes that shortened time-to-first-value.
- Built the data-quality control layer: analyses can't run on unvalidated data, and outputs from flagged sources are labelled automatically.
- Grew an integration partner ecosystem where partner revenue tracked customer outcomes rather than seat counts.
CEO & Founder
Navigator Technology
- Led the C-suite of a 240+ person company.
- Closed multi-year, six-figure contracts with SAP, Facebook and the City of Richmond, Virginia.
- Semantic search deployed for Facebook, validated under production-scale load.
- 350+ TB data infrastructure supporting identity theft prevention, security and analytics workloads.
- Two issued US patents from this period: global text messaging and a personal alert system.
Adjunct Professor, Guest Lecturer & Co-Founder
Southwestern Law School, UC Berkeley & UC Merced
- Founded the Mobile App and Innovation course at Southwestern Law School, now a foundation of the school's JD in Technology. Rated 4.8/5 · Read more
- Guest lecturer at the UC Berkeley and UC Merced Colleges of Engineering.
- Co-founded the UC Berkeley CITRIS mobile app innovation incubator, connecting student teams with working engineers and investors.
- Co-founded the UC Merced Mobile App Challenge, now an annual fixture. Learn more
Systems designed to become infrastructure.
Ventures & Systems Built
Governance embedded where decisions are actually made.
- Exec-Skills: open, machine-readable governance manifests for CEO, CTO, CPO and CLO AI agents. View on GitHub
- Privacy-first intelligence: 4PIA algorithmic accountability system with real-time bias detection
- Trust infrastructure: Navigator distributed data governance
Speaking & Thought Leadership
I translate AI governance requirements for boards, C-suites and policymakers who need frameworks that withstand scrutiny.
- Board briefings: EU AI Act complexity into actionable governance roadmaps
- Executive forums: UC Merced Entrepreneur Series
- Standards leadership: IEEE policy engagement
- Full keynote, formats and booking: see the speaking page
Working Tools
The frameworks argued for here exist as software you can open: a governance dashboard, a data catalog, lineage tracking, ESG reporting.
- Live governance tooling: see the projects page
- Advisory engagements: how this becomes your infrastructure
Where I’ve done the work.
Strategy & Product
- Product lifecycle
- SaaS platform scaling
- Enterprise agile
- Roadmap & delivery
- Governance design
Technical
- AI/ML in production
- Privacy-preserving architecture
- Blockchain trust layers
- Enterprise data governance
- Network infrastructure & 5G
Leadership
- Regulatory translation
- Distributed teams
- Board communication
- Stakeholder alignment
- Standards & policy
Education & certifications.
Law Office Study Program
State Bar of California, judicial chambers track
Plus computer science and mathematics at the University of Minnesota. Technical and legal training together, for when the two sides of a room need an interpreter.
Executive Programs
- AI for Business, University of Pennsylvania
- Data Science: Harvard University
- AI & Law: Lund University (Honors)
- Web3 & Blockchain: INSEAD
Technical Certifications
- High-Performance Computing: CU Boulder
- Data Privacy Architecture: IBM
- 5G RAN Systems: Ericsson
- Cryptographic Integrity: CU Boulder (Honors)
Patents & filings.
20+ patent filings in blockchain, AI and cybersecurity, including issued US patents, plus PCT filings at Ericsson and provisionals. They span trusted data layers for machine learning, network intelligence and threat detection.
IoT Blockchain DDoS Detection and Countermeasures
US 12,445,470 B2 · assigned to Ericsson
Detects DDoS launched from IoT devices by comparing traffic against a learned baseline, then quarantines attacking devices onto a dedicated frequency channel while healthy users keep their own.
Method for Transferring an Amount to be Paid
US 8,744,963 B1
Mobile payment transfer. Fourth patent in the electronic-transactions family begun in 1999.
Personal Alert System and Method
US 8,604,929 B1
Emergency response signalling built for latency and reliability under load.
Process and Device for Conducting Electronic Transactions Using Wireless and Cellular Devices
US 8,527,407 B1
Extends the transactions family onto wireless and cellular devices.
Global Text Messaging System and Method
US 8,385,897 B1
Cross-carrier messaging that worked around the interoperability gaps of the era.
Process and Device for Conducting Electronic Transactions
US 8,027,913 B1 · Reexamination Certificate C1
Continuation of US 7,603,311. Most claims upheld on reexamination.
Process and Device for Conducting Electronic Transactions
US 7,603,311 B1
Paying a citation online, filed in 1999. Claims confirmed on re-examination, tested against fresh prior art during multi-defendant litigation, and held.
Blockchain-Enabled Trusted Data Layer for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Applications
WO 2023/151829 · PCT/EP2022/062619
The customer registers datasets and compute; the vendor sends jobs to the data rather than extracting it. Governance enforced by architecture rather than contract: this thesis, at the patent office.
Method for Handling Network Parameter Recommendations
PCT/109625WO01
Machine-learned tuning of telecommunications network parameters, replacing manual configuration at carrier scale.
Writing.
- Constitutional Democracy in the Algorithmic Age: Springer Nature, Law, Governance and Technology Series, Vol. 83, published September 2026
- “You Deployed The AI. Now You’re Responsible For What It Does.”: Forbes (March 2026). On constructive knowledge, real-time governance, and the five questions every board should be able to answer with documentation rather than assumptions.
- “AI Governance: The CEO’s Ethical Imperative in 2025”: Forbes (February 2025)
- “Generative AI, 5G Network Slicing, and Blockchain for Next-Generation Networks”: IoT Consortium (2023)
- “Artificial Intelligence vs. Human Cognition”: Ericsson (2023)
- “Women Innovators: Intrapreneur or Entrepreneur”: Forbes / Committee of 200 (December 2022)
- “ML-Powered DDoS Attack Identification for Hacked IoT Devices”: IoT Consortium (March 2022)
- “AI-Centric Intent-Based Networking”: iPOP 2022
- More writing: essays on governance, game theory and strategy
Recognition & service.
NIST
2023 – presentGenerative AI working group.
100 Most Influential Businesswomen
Bay AreaSilicon Valley Business Journal.
Innovation Gold Medal
IEEE & the White HouseUC Merced Mobile Innovation Challenge.
Ericsson Key Contributor
2019 & 2020Consecutive years, for work that shipped and generated revenue.
City of San José Commendation
2019AI innovation leadership.
UC Merced
2021 – presentBoard of Directors, Gallo Graduate School.
Linux Foundation
OngoingVoting member, Technical Working Group.
Astia
OngoingInvestment Advisor.
TechWomen
2025Nominated by the US Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Learn more
Call before the architecture locks in.
Protections are cheap to build at the design stage and expensive to retrofit after an audit. The earlier the call, the more options you have.