Andrea Elliott is the founder of EMG Advisory, AI-native governance, risk and strategy practice serving regulated and high-stakes industries with deep specialization in financial services. She most recently served as Chief Compliance Officer at a publicly traded payments technology company, where she led a global risk and compliance transformation, built the company's AI governance framework, and ran a consent order to completion with zero violations. With 15-plus years across risk, compliance, governance, ethics, and legal, Andrea brings a practitioner's perspective to AI governance failures and mitigation. She is the author of 'The Missing Middle,' 'Bounded Autonomy,' and 'The Compounding Bet,' and holds a JD from Emory Law, an MBA from UGA, and the AIGP credential from IAPP.