Charles Jennings is an entrepreneur and writer, and a founder of the tech companies TRUSTe (now TrustArc), GeoTrust, Preview Systems and Swan Island Networks. He’s been a Federal Computing Week 100 honoree; a TEDx speaker; a U.S. delegate to the Nobel Technology Summit in Oslo, Norway; and in 2005 was the subject of a feature story in Wired magazine.

He is also the author of books on AI (Artificial Intelligence: Rise of the Lightspeed Learners, Rowman & Littlefield, 2019) and cybersecurity (The Hundredth Window: Protecting Your Privacy and Security in the Age of the Internet, Simon & Schuster, 2000).