Our Cross-Functional Team
Driving ethics into product, process, and culture isn’t about abstract principles. It’s about creating structures, processes, and practices that you can operationalize.
This has to be done efficiently by leveraging existing infrastructure and creating new programs from scratch only when necessary. You can do that when you have cross-functional senior leaders.
REID BLACKMAN, PH.D.
Founder & CEO
The ethics expert
Reid Blackman, Ph.D., is the author of “Ethical Machines” (Harvard Business Review Press), Founder and CEO of Virtue, an AI ethical risk consultancy, volunteer Chief Ethics Officer for the non-profit Government Blockchain Association, and an advisor to the Canadian government on their federal AI regulations. He was also a founding member of EY’s AI Advisory Board and a Senior Advisor to the Deloitte AI Institute. His work, which includes advising and speaking to organizations including AWS, US Bank, the FBI, NASA, and the World Economic Forum, has been profiled by The Wall Street Journal, the BBC, and Forbes. His written work appears in The Harvard Business Review and The New York Times. Prior to founding Virtue, Reid was a professor of philosophy at Colgate University and UNC-Chapel Hill. Learn more at reidblackman.com.
Ingrid Vasiliu-Feltes, MD MBA
Advisory Partner
The risk, compliance, and innovation expert
Ingrid is a deep-tech, healthcare and life sciences executive, who is highly dedicated to digital and ethics advocacy. She is a well known futurist, globalist, digital strategist, passionate educator and entrepreneurship ecosystem builder, known as a global thought leader for Blockchain, AI, Quantum Technology, Digital Twins, Smart Cities. She serves on the Board of numerous organizations and held several leadership roles in the corporate, academic and not for profit arenas throughout her career. She is the recipient of several awards and serves as an Expert Advisor to the EU Blockchain Observatory Forum, a Forbes Business Council member, and an Advisor to the UN Legal and Economic Empowerment Network. She continues to enjoy teaching Ethical Leadership, Innovation and Digital Transformation at the WBAF Business School-Division of Entrepreneurship, and the University of Miami Business School, the Executive MBA Program.
Matthew Rosenquist
Advisory Partner
The cybersecurity expert
Matthew is a Cybersecurity Strategist and benefits from 30 diverse years in the fields of cyber, physical, and information security. Mr. Rosenquist is the former Cybersecurity Strategist for Intel Corp., the CISO for Eclipz.io, a member of multiple advisory boards, and consults on best-practices and emerging risks to academia, businesses, and governments across the globe.
Mr. Rosenquist specializes in security strategy, measuring value, developing best-practices for cost-effective capabilities, and establishing organizations that deliver optimal levels of cybersecurity, privacy, ethics, and safety. As a cybersecurity strategist, he identifies evolving risks and opportunities to help organizations balance threats, costs, and usability factors to achieve an ideal level of security.
Matthew is very active in the industry as an influencer. He is an experienced keynote speaker, collaborates with industry partners to tackle pressing problems, often presents at conferences, and has published acclaimed articles, white papers, methodologies, and best practices on a wide range of cybersecurity topics. His focus is to enable an organization’s ability to achieve success by helping leadership identify a path forward in managing long-term security, privacy, safety risks.
Benjamin Kultgen, Ph.D.
Principal Researcher, Responsible AI and AI Ethics
Benjamin Kultgen is a researcher, consultant, and academic specializing in ethics. He holds a BA from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in moral philosophy and cognitive science from the University of Colorado Boulder. Currently, he is a member of the philosophy faculty at CU where he teaches ethics and the philosophy of science and technology. As a consultant, he has worked with startups at all stages, primarily in EdTech, healthcare, and greentech, providing advice on the ethical use of AI,company values, and ethical product development.
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