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On the record, when it matters.

A handful of speaking and press engagements a year — national security, AI in regulated industry, financial stability, and the places those topics collide. I'd rather say yes to one good conversation than ten generic keynotes.

// on the record

American Banker · June 2026
"A kill switch is the smoke alarm, not the fire code. If a bank is debating whether it can turn a model off, it has already lost control of that model. The real question isn't 'Can you kill it?' — it's 'Would you know when to?' Most institutions deploying AI today have no trip wires defining what abnormal behavior even looks like, so the switch would never get pulled until the damage was done."
— Quoted in "72% of banks lack AI model 'kill switches,' failure reporting", American Banker

Television & video.

Selected broadcast appearances. Full archive on YouTube and Vimeo.

What I'll speak on.

The shortlist. I can go deep in any of these; I try hard not to fake depth anywhere else.

  • Secured AI for regulated industry

    What "secured AI" actually means when the regulator walks in the room. Data provenance, model provenance, inference surface, output governance, compliance mapping.

  • Post-quantum risk for the financial system

    What bank treasurers, CIOs, and supervisors should be doing today — and what most are not — ahead of cryptographically relevant quantum. The long version is my CSIS analysis, "Is the U.S. Banking System Ready for a Post-Quantum Future?"

  • AI inside federal agencies

    From the inside of building the FDIC's first innovation division: how federal AI programs actually move, where they stall, and what changes the speed.

  • National security in an AI-accelerated world

    The seams between AI, cybersecurity, and state-on-state competition — and why the financial system is adjacent to every one of them.

  • Founder operating playbooks

    Thirty years of using tech — especially AI — to build, scale, buy, and sell companies of every size. Viewed with hindsight.

  • Resigning on principle, with receipts

    For leadership audiences — the mechanics of leaving a senior federal role publicly, when and why, and what the op-ed actually did.

// book a talk

Conference, panel, closed-door briefing, or classroom — email works best. Please include audience, date range, and whether the session is public or Chatham House.

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Print & commentary.

Selected outlets. Links go to outlet archives — swap for direct article URLs over time.

Government & multilateral advisory.

A partial list of governments, central banks, and multilateral institutions I've advised.

  • CIA
  • FBI
  • DHS
  • Federal Reserve
  • OCC
  • U.S. Department of the Treasury
  • German Bundesbank
  • European Central Bank
  • United Nations
  • International Monetary Fund
  • World Bank
  • G7
  • G20
  • UK Ministry of Defence
  • Prime Minister's Office, Singapore