Collin Hogue-Spears is a Senior Director at Black Duck Software, where he leads FedRAMP authorization and global compliance work. He also leads product strategy for Context AI, Black Duck's vulnerability intelligence platform for AI coding assistants and cloud security ecosystems. He has more than 20 years in technology, including AWS GovCloud, where his team secured authorization for $3B in public-sector workloads.

His forthcoming book, From Lab to Life: How AI Works in China (Gatekeeper Press, Summer 2026), examines how China built the world's first governed AI ecosystem, where capability, compliance, and distribution became inseparable. Drawing on Chinese-language regulatory texts, company filings, and technical sources, the book explains how AI governance functions as market infrastructure rather than paperwork after the fact.

He writes and speaks on AI governance, software supply chain security, nation-state cyber operations, and the security risks created when autonomous systems gain enterprise access. He has been quoted in Politico, Dark Reading, CIO.com, and CSO Online. He works from Chinese-language primary sources and focuses on the intersection of regulation, security, and technology deployment.
CISSP | [AWS Certified Security -- Specialty | CISM] | MBA, UMass Amherst