Jack Hobaugh combines his 18-year career as a software engineer, in which he designed and built relational databases, with his legal practice to focus on AI law and governance, cybersecurity law, and privacy law. Jack is a certified iapp AI governance professional (AIGP), privacy professional (FIP/CIPT/CIPP/US/E) and ISC2 Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP). Jack is equally at home whiteboarding technical solutions with product engineers, as incident counsel, or providing legal advice to inhouse counsel. Jack specializes in guiding start-up companies through the AI, privacy, and security compliance maze. His compliance focus is guiding products to production environment as opposed to being a naysayer. A guest lecturer and author of four books on cybersecurity law, Jack is sought out counsel for startups, and mergers & acquisitions. Prior to his legal career, Jack was a software engineer with a focus on international IT consulting and telecom (Europe / Middle East / West Africa / Brazil), writing his first artificial intelligence program in 1989 in LISP as part of his MS in Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University. In addition to litigating and prosecuting patents, Jack also served as a patent examiner for the United States Patent and Trademark Office.