John M. Willis is a systems architect, cybersecurity practitioner, inventor, and technology entrepreneur with more than 30 years of experience spanning cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, critical infrastructure, telecommunications, healthcare, defense, and federal systems. He has supported major U.S. government initiatives, including programs within the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Transportation Security Administration, and U.S. Secret Service, with a focus on Zero Trust architecture, identity systems, privileged access management, governance, and security engineering.

A graduate of the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (CMU/SEI) CISO Executive Program, Mr. Willis has also completed NSA Information Security Assessment Methodology (IAM) and Information Security Evaluation Methodology (IEM) training, CISA High Value Asset (HVA) Technical Lead assessment training, and MIT Professional Education's Applied Data Science Program. He is the founder of Sustainable Future Tech Inc., where his research focuses on Secure-by-Design AI, software and system governance, governance assurance, autonomous systems, and deterministic governance architectures. He is the lead author of the AI Governance Control Plane (AGCP) specification, a requirements-based runtime governance framework designed to provide verifiable oversight and control of autonomous and agentic systems.

Mr. Willis holds an MSc in Sustainable Development from the University of Sussex and is the author of technical publications and inventor on multiple patent filings spanning cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, sustainability, and systems architecture.