People
The institute was founded by Leonardo Gonzalez, who leads its research.
Leonardo Gonzalez
Founder
Leonardo Gonzalez has built and secured software for 30 years. From 2024 to 2026 he was Vice President of the AI Center of Excellence at Trilogy. Before that he was Chief Technology Officer of SafeKeeping from 2020 to 2024, and Senior Architect at the Pearson Foundation from 2010 to 2014.
He founded the consulting firm Kumanday Intelligence, first named Encrypted Commerce, in 1997.
He writes open-source software for AI engineering. The Engineering Behavior Observatory records how AI coding agents do their work and ties each finding about an agent to the record behind it. OpenSymphony coordinates software work that AI agents and people do together. The AI Cybersecurity Playbook covers the security of AI systems.