Ken Priore

I help companies build technology they can actually answer for.Most of it comes down to timing. Today's rules are the easy part. The harder work is telling a team what they will have to answer for in two years, while the architecture is still soft enough to change. So I get legal into the room while the design is still being made.I got here by a long route. I started in asset management at Charles Schwab and took a venture fund public on the NYSE at meVC, the first publicly traded venture capital fund. Then I was general counsel at Grindr as it grew to 10 million users in 150 countries, ran commercial legal for IoT at Silver Spring Networks through its $830M sale to Itron, led partnership and procurement legal at Box, including the migration to Google Cloud, and built Atlassian's global privacy program under GDPR and CCPA. Every one of those jobs turned on the same thing: knowing what a system did, who allowed it, and who is on the hook.I now work that problem from both sides. In-house, it's product and AI governance. Outside, it's research on AI agents: a paper at ICML 2026, an invited presentation at NYU Law's workshop on fiduciary duties and AI, and a contributor's seat on the MIT FutureTech AI Risk Initiative. I write about it at kenpriore.com.Board chair at Third Economy. Advisor at Bravura AI. CIPP/E.