Leadership Forged by Public Trust

Leadership Forged by Public Trust

The core of the AI RegRisk Think Tank is not a theory, but a unique brain trust of practitioners and governance leaders. Our guidance is shaped by leaders who have been at the table where policy is made and accountability is forged, giving us an unparalleled perspective on what works in the real world.

Executive Leadership

Our executive team is responsible for the strategic direction and daily operations of the Think Tank

Brian Allen

Executive Director

Former Fortune 100 Chief Security Officer (Time Warner Cable). Former SVP, Emerging Technology and Cybersecurity Risk Management, Bank Policy Institute. Licensed attorney. NIST AI Safety Institute Consortium member. Chief Trust Advisor, Ampliwork. Adjunct Professor, University of Connecticut MBA Financial Risk Management. Co-author, "The Manager's Guide to Enterprise Security Risk Management."

Greg Woolf

Managing Director

Founder, AI RegRisk Think Tank. AI Global IT-CEO of the Year. FIMA FinTech Innovation Award recipient. FDIC/U.S. Treasury Tech Sprint winner. Advised the Senate Banking Committee, House Financial Services Committee, Federal Reserve, and FinCEN on AI for financial crime detection. Recommendations helped shape the COUNTER Act (H.R.2514). Stanford Machine Learning certification.

Scott Helfrich

Managing Director

Leading the Think Tank's partnership development and program delivery across regulated industries. Senior executive background in healthcare and life sciences commercial leadership. ICF-certified executive coach.

Advisory Board

Jim Cunha

EVP at Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (retired)

EVP, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (Retired). 38-year Fed career. Led the Federal Reserve's Secure Payments initiative and Project Hamilton (CBDC research with MIT). Pioneered the Fed's synthetic identity fraud detection work. Board member, New England ACH Association and Justice Resource Institute.

Chuck Senatore

Director, SEC (Retired)

Regional Director, SEC Southeast Region (Former). Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern District of Florida (Former). Co-Head of Global Compliance, Merrill Lynch (Former). Head of Corporate Compliance and EVP/Head of Risk Oversight, Fidelity Investments (Former). Board member, Fidelity Digital Asset Services. Lecturer in Law, University of Chicago Law School. Founder, Boston RegTech Meetup. Compliance Week "Top Minds" 2019.

David Simpson

CEO, Pelorus

Rear Admiral (Ret.), United States Navy. Chief, FCC Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (Former). Vice Director, Defense Information Systems Agency (Former). 30+ years in national defense and homeland security policy. Professor of Practice, Virginia Tech. Advisor, RapidSOS. U.S. Naval Academy graduate. FED 100 Award for Government IT Leadership.

Lance Leggitt

Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy (Former)

Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy (Former). Deputy Director, White House Domestic Policy Council (Former). Chief of Staff to the Secretary of HHS (Former). 25+ years spanning two presidential administrations. Policy oversight across 10+ Cabinet agencies including HHS, Labor, Education, and Veterans Affairs.

Brian Peretti

U.S. Department of the Treasury, Chief Technology Officer & Deputy Chief AI Officer (Retired)

Chief Technology Officer, U.S. Department of the Treasury (Former). Deputy Chief AI Officer, U.S. Treasury (Former). Executive Officer, Treasury AI Governance Board. Senior Executive Service career member, 22+ years at Treasury. U.S. representative to the G-7 Cyber Expert Group. Oversaw Treasury's landmark report on AI cybersecurity risks in financial services. 2023 Billington CyberSecurity Leadership Award.

Senior Fellows

Ankur Singhal

Head of Cybersecurity and Technology Risk, The Hartford. Board of Directors, Cyber Risk Institute. Technical Lead, FINRA.

The Young Professionals Vanguard

The Vanguard is a dynamic cohort of rising leaders and practitioners at the forefront of AI implementation. Their mission is to provide real-time, in-the-trenches insights to stress-test our frameworks against emerging operational realities. They are charged with engaging the broader professional community through expert forums and spearheading the development of white papers and new concepts that define the future of AI governance.

Andreas Theodoropoulos

Chair
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