About Techné AI

I founded Techné AI as an independent advisory practice at the intersection of AI governance, regulatory compliance, and D&O liability. I hold a Juris Doctor and bring fourteen years of commercialization experience across healthcare, biotechnology, and enterprise technology, with substantive subject-matter background in AI governance frameworks, fiduciary duty, board oversight structures, and director and officer liability.

I host the AI in Chicago podcast, where I interview the researchers, entrepreneurs, and policymakers shaping the field; I have appeared on Disruption Interruption and contributed to Risk Management magazine. I submitted written testimony to the Illinois Senate Executive Subcommittee on AI and Social Media on the consolidation of frontier-AI safety legislation around SB 3261. One of the recommendations from that testimony became an AI-risk impact study bill. I maintain the Illinois AI Legislative Ecosystem tracker and authored the AI Governance & D&O Liability briefing now in active circulation among directors, officers, broker partners, and the underwriters who serve them.

Techné AI is a Chicago-based independent advisory firm. The work is conducted with the legal, compliance, privacy, and risk functions that own AI deployment within their institutions, alongside the brokers and carriers who underwrite their D&O exposure.

The firm was founded on the conviction that the AI governance market needs a category of practitioner that does not yet exist at scale: small, fast, methodology-led, and structurally independent from technology vendors and from the Big 4 audit firms. The deliverable in each engagement is a documented compliance posture — a coherent record across the statutes that apply, the controls that satisfy them, and the disclosures and reporting that follow — produced by an advisor who can speak fluently to general counsel, the auditor, and the D&O carrier in the same conversation.