Core architect of the AI disclosure assertion
The c2pa.ai-disclosure assertion, published in the C2PA 2.4 specification in April 2026, gives AI transparency a machine-readable place in the open content-provenance standard.
Read the specificationWe help write the rules that digital trust will run on.
Leadership and contributor roles across seven bodies that shape digital trust, content provenance, immersive technology and industrial data, and credited contributions to research on the global financial system.
Recognition, on the public record
Each item links to its source.
Chair of the Standards Register and the Use Case Task Force
Leads the forum’s open repository of metaverse use cases: the evidence base that directs interoperability work across its member standards bodies.
See the working groupSpecial contributor, Financial Stability Project Team
Credited on “Fragile Global Liquidity: Sources and Policy Implications” (August 2024), from the project team co-led by William C. Dudley and Carolyn Wilkins.
Read the briefSteering committee member
Helps steer the foundation that defines governance and technical architecture for digital-trust ecosystems, and co-chairs its Ecosystem and Governance Working Group.
Visit Trust Over IPRoles across seven standards bodies
Metaverse Standards Forum
Board member; chair of the Standards Register and the Use Case Task Force; co-chair of a working group; host of a convening series
What the body does: Brings standards organizations and companies together to coordinate interoperability for the open metaverse.
Trust Over IP
Steering committee member; co-chair of the Ecosystem and Governance Working Group
What the body does: Builds a community of practice among digital-trust ecosystem stakeholders, and defines the models, tools and interoperability standards for their governance frameworks.
C2PA
Core architect of the AI disclosure assertion; contributor to the audio, video, AI and machine learning, text and other task forces
What the body does: Defines the open technical standard for establishing the origin and history of digital content.
CAWG
Contributor to every task force, including definitions, trust and user experience; chair of the Delegated Creator Taskforce
What the body does: Develops how creators are identified and how their assertions about content are made and verified, building on the C2PA standard.
Alliance for OpenUSD
Chair of DEI; accessibility prototypes on the open scene standard
What the body does: Advances the open Universal Scene Description standard for 3D content.
Decentralized Identity Foundation
Contributor, including the Hospitality and Travel Working Group and a strategic framework for secure messaging
What the body does: Advances open standards for decentralized identity and the credentials built on them.
MTConnect
Contributor to specification work
What the body does: Maintains an open standard for manufacturing data interoperability, giving machines, software and systems a shared data structure.
Why standards leadership matters to clients
In plain words
A standard is a shared rulebook for how systems and organizations work together. Those who help write it see the direction of a market before it is visible, and help set it.
For the specialist
Our contributions take the form of normative text, interoperability findings, conformance tooling and the chairing of working groups and task forces, each reviewed by peers inside the body.
Publications, specifications and recognition
Every entry links to the public source that names us.
- SpecificationC2PA Technical Specification 2.4: AI Disclosure assertion (c2pa.ai-disclosure)Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity, April 2026Core architect
- SpecificationTrust Registry Query Protocol (TRQP) v2.0, ToIP Approved DeliverableTrust Over IP, LF Decentralized TrustContributor
- StandardHospitality & Travel Profile (HATPro)Decentralized Identity Foundation, Hospitality & Travel Working GroupSignificant contributor
- RegisterMetaverse Standards Use Case RegisterMetaverse Standards ForumChair, Use Case Task Force; Chair, Standards Register
- Policy briefFragile Global Liquidity: Sources and Policy ImplicationsBretton Woods Committee, Financial Stability Project Team, August 2024Special contribution
- Policy briefUnlocking Stablecoins: Exploring Opportunities and RisksBretton Woods Committee, Digital Finance Project Team, February 2025Project team member
- Industry reportGlobal Standards Mapping Initiative (GSMI) 4.0Global Blockchain Business Council, November 2023Contributor
- Industry reportGlobal Standards Mapping Initiative (GSMI) 5.0Global Blockchain Business Council, December 2024Contributor
- Working groupAI & Human Trust Working GroupTrust Over IPMember
- Working groupTrusted AI Agents Working Group: agentic authority use casesDecentralized Identity FoundationContributor
- White paperResponsible Investment Practices, Part 1: The Speed–Governance TensionHkdolts, April 2026Author
- RecognitionMarquis Who’s WhoMarquis Who’s Who, publisher of Who’s Who in America, since 2024Honored Listee
Published research
- Governance, risk and tradeA path to sustainable trade and supply chain operations
Read 1 article - Metaverse and standardsInclusion in the metaverse, profiles of the leading platforms and a guide to the open 3D scene standard
Read 4 articles - VenturesA four-part guide for aspiring entrepreneurs
Read 4 articles - Technology and leadershipLeapfrogging technological capability and leading digital transformation
Read 2 articles - Responsible investmentResponsible Investment Practices, a three-part white paper series
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