Leadership
Robert McNamara
Co-Founder & Chief Executive OfficerInventor of TriggerSmart, the RFID childproof firearm system, and co-founder of Algorethics. He has spent his career on technology built to protect people rather than exploit them. RoseShield began as a father’s commitment to protecting his own daughter. Named inventor on patents spanning AI ethics and child-safety architecture.
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Steaphen Antony Venansious
Co-Founder & Chief Technology OfficerTechnology entrepreneur and data scientist. Architect of the Algorethics AI Library, which engineered the Rome Call for AI Ethics into working production systems, and builder of the engine this site describes. Formerly CTO of AWOK.com in Dubai through its $30M Series A, and built the rights-protection systems used on Bollywood and Hollywood productions.
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Melissa A. Ehlers
Chief Growth OfficerMarine Corps veteran and former Judge Advocate, with thirty years across national security, compliance and governance. Ran a multi-unit franchise group as chief executive for twenty-two years with full profit and loss ownership. Leads growth across partnerships and channel, and brings deep experience of regulated markets and federal engagement.
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Loy Ehlers
Chief Operating Officer & General CounselAttorney, Marine Corps veteran and former Judge Advocate, with thirty years across national security and corporate governance. Senior legal officer for a joint Defense and State Department organization supporting embassy operations worldwide, and Divisional General Counsel at Bassett Furniture Industries. Sits on the board of the SAFE Governance Council, which is developing a framework for safeguarding in AI-mediated environments.
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Frontline child protection, platform-scale trust and safety, and policy experience across the Gulf.
Dr. Saeed Al Dhaheri
Child safety & ethical AIEmirati futurist, AI ethicist and author. Founder and former Director General of the Emirates Identity Authority, Director of the Center for Futures Studies at the University of Dubai, visiting lecturer in Responsible AI at Oxford, and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council. Board member of the Emirates Safer Internet Society.
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Andy Briercliffe
Online child sexual exploitationGlobal online harms consultant with decades in child sexual exploitation and abuse. Worked across UK Government agencies fighting organized crime and child sexual crime, then three years at Twitter, latterly as Head of Online Child Safety. Advises governments, platforms and charities, and speaks regularly at international online-safety conferences.
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Dave Byrne
Digital safety & platform integritySeventeen years in digital safety, youth protection and platform integrity, including eleven at Google, three at TikTok and a period at Spotify. Now EVP for global brand safety and privacy at IPG Mediabrands. Builds and leads global teams across brand safety, privacy and AI responsibility.
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Colin Meagle
Strategy & ventureTwenty-five years founding, scaling and advising companies across Europe, North America and the Middle East. Former Group CEO of The Continuum Group, one of Ireland’s leading digital transformation firms, through its acquisition by Granite Digital. Now advises entrepreneurs, investors and governments through Continuous Ventures, Inception Holdings and Granite MENA.
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