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Council Members

The seated Council. The Founding Chair and the Members of the AI Trust Council, the independent multi-stakeholder body that governs the Trust Identity Protocol. Roster published in TIP Protocol Whitepaper v1.0.

Category 01 | AI Trust Council

The AI Trust Council.

The independent stewards of the Trust Identity Protocol. They guide the open infrastructure that lets any real person prove they are human and any piece of content declare how it was made, free in every jurisdiction, forever.

Founding Chair

Founding Chair

Presides over the Council and convenes the public proceedings of the Trust Identity Protocol.

Joshua Baron, Founding Chair, AI Trust Council
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Joshua Baron

Founding Chair
President and Founder, Baron's EdTech Consulting

Josh Baron is the President and Founder of Baron's EdTech Consulting, providing strategic advising on digital education, technology, and business development to non-profits, higher education, edtech companies, and K-12...

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The Council

Members

The seated Members. Independent. Public. Charter-bound.

Ross Thorpe, Founding Member, AI Trust Council
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Ross Thorpe

Founding Member
Chief Executive Officer, Rooverse

Ross Thorpe is the Chief Executive Officer of Rooverse, the human-only content social media platform built on verified personhood, and Chairman of TopCo Capital. Trained across Psychology, Biosciences, and Philosophy,...

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Kathleen Hom, Member, AI Trust Council
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Kathleen Hom

Member
American Bar Association, Cybersecurity Legal Task Force, AI and Cybersecurity Law

Kathleen Hom is a technology and security attorney with extensive experience in both the U.S. federal sector and private industry. She currently serves as Senior Counsel at Dell Technologies and was previously with...

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Niamh Lenihan, Member, AI Trust Council
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Niamh Lenihan

Member
Founder, Centre for Digital Ethics

Niamh Lenihan is a legal philosopher, a practising lawyer, and the Founder of the Centre for Digital Ethics, where her work is directed at the protection of human autonomy, dignity, and fundamental rights in the age of...

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Issa Nesheiwat, Founding Member, AI Trust Council
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Issa Nesheiwat

Founding Member
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Apex Modular Solutions

A professional with over two decades of diverse experience, Issa brings a wealth of expertise to the table as a published author, real estate investor, and owner of Apex Modular Solutions, a residential and commercial...

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Vladimer Kobayashi, PhD, Member, AI Trust Council
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Vladimer Kobayashi, PhD

Member
Professor, University of the Philippines Mindanao

Vladimer Kobayashi serves on the AI Trust Council in an independent capacity. Professor at the University of the Philippines Mindanao with leadership in data science and machine learning, he brings Southeast Asian...

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Christopher Stott, Member, AI Trust Council
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Christopher Stott

Member
Founder and Executive Chair, Lonestar Data Holdings Inc.

Chris Stott is the Founder and Executive Chair of Lonestar Data Holdings Inc., the world's leading provider of resilient space-based, secure, accessible, sovereignty-compliant data storage. A lifetime entrepreneur,...

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Gareth Evans, Member, AI Trust Council
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Gareth Evans

Member
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Timpi

Gareth Evans is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Timpi, building the infrastructure for a more open internet through scalable web indexing and data services that enable fair, transparent, and unbiased...

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Tory Cenaj, Founding Member, AI Trust Council
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Tory Cenaj

Founding Member
Founder and Publisher, Partners in Digital Health

Tory Cenaj is the Founder and Publisher of Partners in Digital Health (PDH), a global communications, research, and education organization advancing innovation at the intersection of artificial intelligence,...

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Dinesh Mendhe, Founder Seat, AI Trust Council
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Dinesh Mendhe

Founder Seat
Founder and Chairman, The AI Lab Intelligence Unobscured, Inc.

Dinesh Mendhe is the Founder and Chairman of The AI Lab and the inventor and principal author of the canonical TIP Protocol Specification v5.0. He occupies the Founder Seat of the AI Trust Council with declared interest...

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Dr. Sofia Martinez, Ex Officio Observer, AI Trust Council
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Dr. Sofia Martinez

Ex Officio Observer
Chief Executive Officer, The AI Lab Intelligence Unobscured, Inc.

Dr. Sofia Martinez, Chief Executive Officer of The AI Lab and co-founder of NeuriteAI, is a neurosurgeon by training whose clinical insight and operational leadership guide the organisation's mission to build...

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Benjamin Wild, Member, AI Trust Council
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Benjamin Wild

Member
Founder and Chief Doodler, Ben Wild Studios

Founder of Ben Wild Studios, an animation, film, and design studio based in Sale, England, United Kingdom. Represents the creator and creative-industry constituency on the Council, the audience the Origin Code system...

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Ram Waman Ghonmode, Member, AI Trust Council
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Ram Waman Ghonmode

Member
Chief Business Officer, The AI Lab Intelligence Unobscured, Inc.

Ram Waman Ghonmode is the Chief Business Officer of The AI Lab, where he owns commercial strategy, partnerships, and the global go-to-market for TIP Protocol (Trust Identity Protocol), the AI Trust Registry, and the...

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Tushar Bhendarkar, Member, AI Trust Council
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Tushar Bhendarkar

Member
Chief Technology Officer, The AI Lab Intelligence Unobscured, Inc.

Tushar Bhendarkar is the Chief Technology Officer of The AI Lab Intelligence Unobscured, Inc. and of NeuriteAI, where he leads the design and deployment of scalable, secure, and production-grade artificial intelligence...

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Category 02 | Advisory Board

The AI Trust Advisory Board.

Subject-matter experts who advise the Council on specific workstreams: cryptography, journalism, public policy, education, regulation, civil society. Their role is consultative.

Advisory Board

Advisors to the Council

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Dale Whittaker

Advisor
Advisor and Principal Officer, US Education R&D, Gates Foundation

Dale Whittaker is Advisor and Principal Officer at the Gates Foundation, where he works at the system and national level to help the field of higher education deliver measurable improvements in people's lives and...

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Nate Angell, Advisor, AI Trust Council
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Nate Angell

Advisor
Founder, Nudgital

Nate Angell is the founder of Nudgital, an independent communications, community, and growth consultancy serving public-sector institutions and mission-driven organizations. He brings to the AI Trust Advisory Board a...

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Alan D. Jagolinzer, PhD, Advisor, AI Trust Council
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Alan D. Jagolinzer, PhD

Advisor
Professor of Financial Accounting and Vice Dean for Programmes, University of Cambridge Judge Business School

Alan Jagolinzer is Professor of Financial Accounting and Vice Dean for Programmes at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School, where he also serves as Co-Director of the Cambridge Centre for Financial Reporting...

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Hema Dey, Advisor, AI Trust Council
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Hema Dey

Advisor
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Iffel International Inc.

Hema Dey, known as The AI Translator, helps small and mid-sized businesses understand artificial intelligence and turn it into measurable business growth. She is a Forbes-recognized AI leader, number one bestselling...

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Matt Abrams, Advisor, AI Trust Council
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Matt Abrams

Advisor
Co-Founder, $1 Billion for Trust

Matt Abrams is the Co-Founder of $1 Billion for Trust, a broad tent effort to build the community, the infrastructure, and the capital to fund solutions that strengthen trust in information, in one another, and in...

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Category 03 | Ambassadors

The AI Trust Council Ambassadors.

Country representatives for the Trust Identity Protocol. Each Ambassador carries the mission into their own country, and represents TIP in conversations with creators, institutions, regulators, and platforms in that market.

Ambassadors

Ambassadors of the Council

Cyrus D. Santiago, AI Trust Council Ambassador, AI Trust Council
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Cyrus D. Santiago

AI Trust Council Ambassador
AI Visibility, AI Implementation and Research Professional

Cyrus Santiago is a multidisciplinary digital professional with more than 18 years across software development, SEO, digital marketing, artificial intelligence, and digital transformation. He specialises in AI...

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The AI Lab | Global Seal of Trust | Sovereign Seal

Independent governance for the protocol.

The AI Trust Council operates under a public Charter, convenes the Genesis Block Ceremony every June 1, and records every decision immutably on the federated DAG (TIP Network).