HomeAI Trust CouncilMembers

Council Members

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

01AI 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. The Chairman presides over the Council and convenes its public proceedings. The Members are independent, public, and Charter-bound.

Ross Thorpe

Chairman

Chief Executive Officer, Rooverse

Kathleen Hom

Member

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

Niamh Lenihan

Member

Founder, Centre for Digital Ethics

Issa Nesheiwat

Founding Member

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Apex Modular Solutions

Vladimer Kobayashi, PhD

Member

Professor, University of the Philippines Mindanao

Christopher Stott

Founding Member

Founder and Executive Chair, Lonestar Data Holdings Inc.

Gareth Evans

Member

Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Timpi

Tory Cenaj

Founding Member

Founder and Publisher, Partners in Digital Health

Dinesh Mendhe

Founder Seat

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

Dr. Sofia Martinez

Ex Officio Observer

Chief Executive Officer, The AI Lab Intelligence Unobscured, Inc.

Benjamin Wild

Member

Founder and Chief Doodler, Ben Wild Studios

Ram Waman Ghonmode

Member

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

Tushar Bhendarkar

Member

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

Prof. (Dr.) Ajay Kumar

Member

Vice President, IETE New Delhi, and Professor and Head of Computer Science and Engineering, RTCIT Ranchi

Mostafa Elkordy

Member

Senior Cybersecurity Solutions Officer, UNICC

Niyam Bhushan

Member

Design Leader, Entrepreneur and TEDx Speaker

Atman Rathod

Member

Founder and Director, CMARIX InfoTech

Dipankar Sengupta

Member

IT Consultant, Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC), Government of India

02Advisory 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.

Dale Whittaker

Advisor

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

Nate Angell

Advisor

Founder, Nudgital

Alan D. Jagolinzer, PhD

Advisor

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

Hema Dey

Advisor

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Iffel International Inc.

Matt Abrams

Advisor

Co-Founder, $1 Billion for Trust

Tricia Wang

Advisor

Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Advanced AI Society

03Fellows

The AI Trust Council Fellows.

Senior practitioners who advise the Council on its growth, partnerships and open governance. Fellows hold no seat on the Council and do not direct protocol matters.

Joshua Baron

Senior Fellow

President and Founder, Baron's EdTech Consulting

04Ambassadors

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.

Cyrus D. Santiago

AI Trust Council Ambassador

AI Visibility, AI Implementation and Research Professional

Khushwant Pawar

AI Trust Council Ambassador

Academician and Lawyer

05Member Organizations

Member Organizations

Institutions that join the Council as members in their own right, each represented by a named person.

AI Integrity Institute (AI³)Larnaca, CyprusRepresented by Zenonas Hadjicostas, President

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).

On the Council, the Advisory Board or an Ambassador? Get your badge for your website.