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.
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
Presides over the Council and convenes the public proceedings of the Trust Identity Protocol.
Joshua Baron
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...
Members
The seated Members. Independent. Public. Charter-bound.
Ross Thorpe
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,...
Issa Nesheiwat
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...
Vladimer Kobayashi, PhD
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...
Kathleen Hom
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...
Christopher Stott
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,...
Gareth Evans
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...
Dinesh Mendhe
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...
Dr. Sofia Martinez
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...
Benjamin Wild
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...
Ram Waman Ghonmode
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...
Kevin M. Gaugler, PhD
Assistant Dean of the School of Liberal Arts, Professor of Spanish, and Director of the Weiss Language Center at Marist University, with academic-leadership experience in liberal arts and language education.
Govindraj Ethiraj
Founder of Boom Network, an independent fact-checking organisation and recognised signatory of the International Fact-Checking Network code of principles, with editorial leadership in independent journalism across South...
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.
Advisors to the Council
John DiVuolo, PMP, ITIL, CISSP
Director of Information Security at Rutgers University, one of the principal public research universities in the United States. Brings information security leadership and risk-management practice to the AI Trust...
