Who is behind it

Three co-founders and a strategic advisor. Between them: the standards that govern portfolio management worldwide, the infrastructure that runs and proves AI agents, and the programs that must act in step across borders.

• John SchlichterCo-founder

  Agents can only keep rules that someone defined. John led the international team of about 800 practitioners in 35 countries that wrote the global standard for organizational project management and PPM, published by ISO and adopted worldwide. His doctoral research at Trinity College Dublin examined how portfolio management becomes a dynamic capability that adapts as conditions change. For over two decades he has worked in the portfolios of global organizations, spanning Fortune 100 companies and equally esteemed government entities. John conceived Tacitum and writes its code.

• Maura ClarkCo-founder

  Running agents inside a customer’s own data center, and proving afterward what each agent did, are infrastructure problems. An executive who knows her way around complex technology organizations, Maura has spent 15 years in telecom and data center networking, most recently helping enterprises, cloud providers, and critical infrastructure operators connect AI workloads. She authored UOR-ADDR, an open standard for addressing and verifying AI agent content adopted by the UOR Foundation, and contributed to its Rust reference implementation. She holds certifications in AI infrastructure from NVIDIA and IBM.

• Scott DardenCo-founder

  Timing failures cost most where organizations must act in step across borders. For over two decades, Scott has led supply chain and logistics programs across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, including defense procurement, enterprise logistics, and client program direction at Maersk, U.S. Department of State, and U.S. Department of Defense, among others. Over the years, he has founded several startups in Dubai. He knows what it takes to make explicit and tacit rules work when the work among contractors, suppliers, and customers crosses continents and cultures. He is fluent in both English and Arabic. يتحدث اللغتين الإنجليزية والعربية بطلاقة.

Strategic Advisor

• Benn Konsynski

  Benn Konsynski is the George S. Craft Professor of Information Systems and Operations Management at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, and he previously held faculty appointments at Harvard Business School and the University of Arizona. His research centers on decision support systems and on information systems that coordinate work across organizational boundaries, two foundations of Tacitum’s governed agents for portfolio decisions. He has served on the boards of several technology companies, and he holds a PhD in computer science from Purdue University.