John D. Graham

Ideation and ZeroFHE (USA)

John Graham founded ‘Zero’, an AI company that has a fully homomorphic encryption that enables AI to be trained with encrypted confidential data. This expands training data from the existing public data (about 0.2% of the extant data) to all confidential data (99.8% of extant data).  This will be transformative for AI training.

He also founded an innovation management company (Ideation Inc.) currently being used by the 22 colleges of CUNY as well as by the National Science Academy of Ukraine.  

He was Chairman at Circle Trust, an $8.5 billion bank, and was a Managing Director at KPMG.  He has led major industry wide infrastructures for the electrical power, software, newspaper, art and charity industries. Gartner awarded him the ‘Intranet of the Year’ Award for the electrical power project (OASIS) that currently trades over $30 billion pa. 

He authored IDEATION: The Birth & Death of Ideas that was well reviewed by Carl Icahn, Sir David Cooksey and Lee Iacocca. He has served as an expert witness in court cases related to valuation of IP including the Supreme Court eBay vs MercExchange. 

He has spoken widely at major venues including US Congress, Brookings Institution, US Chamber of Commerce, UN, State of the World Forum, RAND Institute, Horasis and Gartner Conferences. He has served on the board of public and private companies as well as non-profits.  

He has a B. Sc. (Honours) in Molecular Science & Psychology from the University of Sussex and a Post Graduate degree in Education & Physics from the University of Exeter.