Ajit Singh, MS, MBA, is Chief Architect & Technology Officer at The Friedkin Group, a diversified international conglomerate headquartered in Houston, where he leads enterprise architecture, software engineering, cloud, and data & AI platforms across operating companies spanning financial services, logistics, and retail. He established the group's Centers of Excellence for Cloud, Analytics, and AI and is now three years into an enterprise-wide AI program judged by a single standard: measurable bottom-line impact.

His perspective on governing AI was shaped by more than two decades running mission-critical technology in regulated industries. Over 15 years at JPMorgan Chase, he rose from software engineer to Global Technology Executive for Margin and Collateral Management, leading organizations of 500+ technologists across 10+ mission-critical products serving corporate, investment, commercial, and government banking. As CIO & CISO of Southwestern National Bank, he rebuilt a community bank into a 100% digital, 100% cloud-native institution within a year — improving its regulatory rating from 5 to 2 and delivering the best profits in the bank's history. Earlier, as Head of Professional Services at the AI fintech Digital Reasoning, he led a 100+ member global team delivering insider-threat AI solutions to some of the world's most complex financial institutions.

Ajit holds an MBA from Rice University and an MS in Systems Engineering from IIT Delhi, with executive credentials in cybersecurity, AI, and data strategy from Stanford, MIT, UC Berkeley, and UT Austin. His message for the age of AI agents: stop drawing blueprints — start writing constitutions.