Roger Sherman Institute of Technology™

Global Registry of

Institute-Recognized Experts™

A formal register maintained by the Institute, recognizing senior experts whose work demonstrates systems-level judgment, institutional accountability, and sustained contribution in complex or high-consequence environments.

2025 Year Established
Annual Review Cycle
Selective Admission
Global Jurisdiction

Founding Advisory Board

The following experts serve in a strategic, non-operational advisory capacity and constitute the founding members of the RSIT Global Registry. Recognition reflects professional standing only and does not confer academic, faculty, or governance authority within the Institute.

Registry No. 001 · 2025

Aksinya Staar

Principal
Polymathic Strategy · Futures Thinking · Integrative Systems
Founding Advisory Board

Aksinya Staar is a principal expert, futurist, and interdisciplinary strategist whose work advances polymathic thinking as a practical framework for navigating complexity, uncertainty, and long-term transformation. Her work synthesizes learning science, organizational behavior, foresight, and cultural dynamics to support institutional resilience, adaptability, and responsible innovation. She brings a cross-sector perspective that bridges the human dimensions of systems change with the demands of AI-era governance.

Registry No. 002 · 2025

Douglas Keevers

PhD
AI Governance · Cybersecurity · Trust Architecture
Founding Advisory Board

Dr. Douglas Keevers is a senior governance expert specializing in AI governance, cybersecurity, and institutional trust architecture. His work focuses on designing audit-ready, compliance-aware digital systems that balance innovation with accountability in regulated environments. He brings a rigorous, policy-grounded perspective to the challenge of governing AI at institutional scale — where technical capability and organizational trust must be designed together, not retrofitted.

Registry No. 003 · 2025

Pankaj Mehrotra

PhD
Artificial Intelligence · Advanced Analytics · Enterprise Systems
Founding Advisory Board

Dr. Pankaj Mehrotra brings a rigor-driven perspective on machine learning, advanced analytics, and enterprise-scale AI systems, focusing on performance trade-offs, scalability, and long-term institutional value. His expertise spans the full arc from algorithmic design to operational deployment, with particular focus on the organizational conditions that determine whether AI systems deliver durable value or generate compounding technical debt.

Registry No. 004 · 2025

George Vigil

PhD, EdD
Strategic Leadership · AI-Driven Institutional Transformation · Governance
Founding Advisory Board

Dr. George Vigil is a senior academic and executive leader whose work centers on leadership coherence, executive governance, and institutional transformation in AI-enabled environments. He emphasizes long-term organizational purpose and institutional trust as the governing principles of responsible AI adoption — arguing that transformation without a coherent leadership architecture produces disruption, not progress. His dual doctoral background bridges the rigor of research with the demands of executive practice.

Registry No. 005 · 2025

Pedro Nunes

PhD
Innovation Systems · Digital Strategy · Technology Policy
Founding Advisory Board

Dr. Pedro Nunes brings an international, policy-aware perspective on innovation governance and digital transformation, focusing on institutional legitimacy, scalability, and long-term societal impact. His work operates at the intersection of technology strategy and public policy — examining how institutions can build the governance capacity required to make AI deployment not merely effective, but defensible across regulatory, ethical, and civic dimensions.

Registry No. 006 · 2025

Thomas Lauritzen

PhD
AI Systems · Institutional Strategy · Digital Transformation
Founding Advisory Board

Dr. Thomas Lauritzen specializes in aligning advanced AI capabilities with governance, sustainability, and institutional integrity across multi-stakeholder environments. His work addresses the structural challenge of deploying AI at enterprise scale without sacrificing the oversight architectures that make such deployment accountable — a challenge he approaches through both technical depth and organizational strategy.

Registry No. 007 · 2025

John Ferguson

PhD
Leadership Development · Organizational Psychology · Institutional Culture
Founding Advisory Board

Dr. John Ferguson focuses on the human dimensions of transformation, emphasizing leadership readiness, cultural coherence, and ethical grounding in AI-driven change. He brings an organizational psychology perspective to the governance challenge: arguing that AI systems do not fail in isolation — they fail within cultural and leadership environments that were never designed to govern them. His work equips institutions to build those environments deliberately.

Registry No. 008 · 2025

Cantekin Ertekin

PhD
Machine Learning · Computational Intelligence · Algorithmic Evaluation
Founding Advisory Board

Dr. Cantekin Ertekin specializes in algorithmic robustness, interpretability, and system-level behavior of AI models operating under real-world constraints. His work examines how machine learning systems perform outside laboratory conditions — where data is messy, distributions shift, and the cost of failure is institutional rather than theoretical. He brings computational rigor to governance questions that too often remain abstract.

Inclusion in the RSIT Global Registry of Institute-Recognized Experts™ reflects professional recognition only. It does not constitute a degree, diploma, academic appointment, teaching role, faculty status, or participation in RSIT Signature Series programs. Recognition is granted for a fixed term, subject to annual review, and may be revoked if conduct becomes inconsistent with Institute standards. This registry operates independently of RSIT's degree-granting functions, academic governance activities, and institutional accreditation stack.

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