
Sultan Meghji is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Frontier Foundry Corporation, which builds deterministic, secured AI systems for regulated industries, including financial services, defense and intelligence, and healthcare, and the founder of Virtova, an AI advisory practice serving financial institutions and private equity firms. He is a Fellow at George Mason University’s National Security Institute, and a Non-resident Senior Technical Expert in the Economic Security and Technology Department at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
Mr. Meghji previously served as the inaugural Chief Innovation Officer of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, where he led technology modernization and emerging-technology strategy and created the agency’s tech sprint program. A noted expert in AI, cybersecurity, quantum computing, and digital assets, he has spent more than three decades across AI, fintech, biotech, and cybersecurity, including launching, scaling, and selling startups in frontier technologies. His research career began at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in 1992. He has taught in the graduate programs at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering and Washington University’s Olin Business School, and is a frequent new contributor with credits including Bloomberg, BBC, CNN, Fox News, Newsnation, the Wall Street Journal and others.
Mr. Meghji has served in an advisory capacity to the U.S. government, including the Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Homeland Security, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Federal Reserve, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and Department of the Treasury. Internationally, he has advised the G7, G20, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, United Nations, European Central Bank, German Bundesbank, and the governments of Singapore and the United Kingdom. He splits his time between St. Louis and Washington, DC, having previously lived in France, Singapore, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, and is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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