Sentinel's Mission is to Defend Democracies Against Information Warfare
Headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia, Sentinel works with governments, media and defence agencies to help protect democracies from disinformation campaigns, synthetic media and information operations by developing a state-of-the-art AI detection platform. The company was founded by ex-NATO AI and cybersecurity experts and is funded by world-class investors such as Jaan Tallinn (Co-Founder of Skype, early investor of DeepMind) and Taavet Hinrikus (Co-Founder of TransferWise). Our vision is to become the trust layer for the Internet by verifying the entire critical information supply chain and safeguard 1 billion people from information warfare.
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Leadership
Johannes Tammekänd
CEO & Co-Founder
Johannes is an ex-NATO CCDCOE cybersecurity, data science and information warfare expert. Before Sentinel, he made an exit with Payload-Security to CrowdStrike.
Kaspar Peterson
CTO & Co-Founder
Kaspar previously architected AI-based digital humans and synthetic media in Sidekik as the CTO. He was the first software architect of Monese - a banking app that has raised over $70 million.
Dr Adrian Venables
Chief Research Officer
Dr Adrian Venables is a Senior Researcher at TalTech, the Tallinn University of Technology. A former Royal Naval Officer specialising in Communications, Electronic Warfare and Intelligence, he holds a PhD in International Relations focusing on cyberpower and influence operations in the maritime domain.
Henry Rõigas
Chief Strategy Officer
Prior to joining Sentinel, Henry coordinated international projects and published research on information security policy at the NATO CCDCOE, and led innovation and research collaboration on blockchain-based data integrity solutions at Guardtime.
Advisors
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Former President of the Republic of Estonia
Toomas Hendrik Ilves is former president of Estonia (2006-2016)
Before assuming the office of the presidency Ilves served as vice-president of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament (2004-2006), foreign minister of Estonia (1996-2002), where he led Estonia’s EU and NATO accession process. From 1993-96 he served as Estonia’s first post-independence ambassador to Washington. From 1988 to 1993 Ilves was director of the Estonian Service at RFE-RL and prior to that a research analyst in the Research Department of RFE-RL.
He is best-known internationally for his work 1995-2016 pushing Estonia to digitize its government. He is currently writing a book on democracy in the digital era.
Ilves served as chairman of the EU Task Force on eHealth from 2011 to 2012 and was chairman of the European Cloud Partnership Steering Board at the invitation of the European Commission from 2012 to 2014. In 2013 he chaired the High-Level Panel on Global Internet Cooperation and Governance Mechanisms convened by ICANN. From 2014 to 2015 Ilves was the co-chair of the advisory panel of the World Bank's World Development Report 2016 "Digital Dividends" and was also the chair of World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Cyber Security beginning in June 2014. Starting from 2016, Ilves co-chairs The World Economic Forum working group The Global Futures Council on Blockchain Technology and is a member of Munich Security Conference Advisory Council. In 2017 Ilves became an advisory council member of German Marshall Fund’s Alliance for Securing Democracy and joined World Bank Identification for Development (ID4D) High-Level Advisory Council. From 2017 to 2020 Ilves was a Berggruen Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Global Digital Policy Incubator, Stanford University. Starting from 2018, Ilves is a member of the advisory board of the Oxford University Centre for Technology and Global Affairs. Starting from 2019, Ilves is a member of the Board of Free Russia Foundation. In 2020, Ilves joined the Center for European Policy Analysis as a Distinguished Fellow and became Commissioner of the WHO Pan-European Commission on Health and Sustainable Development.
Kristen Davis
Founder & CEO of CinqC.co
As former IT & Innovation Director of the New York Times International, Kristen has years of practical experience using technology to both advance businesses and protect organisations around the world. In 2016, she founded CinqC.co where her work spans the technology ecosystem, from multi-national organisations, innovation labs, to startups, using technology to evolve enterprises and societies. Based in Paris, France, Kristen regularly works in Estonia, one of the most digitally advanced nations on earth. Kristen is also the Chairwoman of the US-board of APOPO HeroRats, a global not-for-profit using scent detection animal technology to detect landmines and tuberculosis to save lives.
Our vision is to become the trust layer for the internet
Trust the information you use to make critical decisions.
If deepfakes go undetected then decision makers, citizens, and democratic processes will be manipulated leading to the loss of trust in democracies.