Founder & CEO
The Ethical Tech Institute
“Three decades in corporate governance. A legal education that taught me how regulators think. And, over the last three years, a portfolio of live AI platforms built across government, healthcare, legal and enterprise sectors, and AI compliance tooling for financial services.
That combination is the point: I understand where AI systems carry risk because I have built them — the data flows, the failure modes, where oversight has to sit. Most AI governance people are ex-policy or ex-risk and have never touched a production system. I have built dozens — and I am now building the governance layer to match, ISO 42001-aligned, on my own regulated platforms.”
She holds an LLB and passed the ICSA qualifying examinations in 1994. She holds a certificate in AI Governance from the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School, is certified in ISO 42001, ISO 23894 and the EU AI Act (BSI), and completed leadership training at Harvard Business School. She has built and deployed over 40 live AI platforms across regulated sectors, and is the author of the Cardinal Decision Evidence Assessment (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21922417), a published method for testing whether AI-assisted decisions can be defended after the fact.
Three decades in corporate governance taught her how regulators construct an argument.
Why the Institute exists
The governance deficit that AI now creates is not new in shape. It has played out across every major technology shift of the last three decades: capability arrives, adoption follows, and the accountability structure is retrofitted afterwards — usually under enforcement pressure. The Institute was founded because that pattern was repeating, with higher stakes and a shorter runway.
Its research and policy frameworks inform the governance architecture deployed through Cardinal AI Systems, so client engagements rest on independent, evidence-based standards rather than proprietary frameworks alone.