Akli Adjaoute is the author of Inside AI and the founder and CEO of Exponion, a venture capital firm. He previously founded Brighterion, an AI company acquired by Mastercard in 2017. Adjaoute holds 35 patents, with 50 more pending, and his AI solutions are trusted by 74 of the top 100 U.S. banks, processing over 150 billion transactions annually. He is also a renowned academic, speaker, and writer in AI and security, having served as an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco and as head of the AI department at EPITA in France.