Scholar-practitioners, not generalist consultants.
Our Leadership Team
PhD-level research credibility combined with twenty-plus years of defense and security operations. Built for the mid-market CTO or CISO who needs an advisor who has both published the research and operated under pressure.
Chris Simpson
Founder
PhD, Cybersecurity | Program Director, Cybersecurity | NSA-designated Center of Academic Excellence | San Diego Cyber Clinic
Navy Lieutenant Commander | TOPGUN Instructor
CISSP | GPEN
20+ years of defense and security operations
Rigorous, client-specific analysis matters more than templated consulting. Every organization's AI risk profile is different. We do the work to understand your specific situation and give you findings you can act on.
Chris founded Hackademic Solutions to close a specific gap: mid-market CTOs and CISOs running Microsoft infrastructure who are accountable for AI governance but cannot find an advisory partner that fits their size, speed, or stack. The 10-day AI Posture Review is the answer he wanted as a practitioner and could not buy as a buyer.
His career sits at the intersection of academic research and high-stakes operations. As a Navy Lieutenant Commander and TOPGUN Instructor, he spent more than two decades operating under pressure where governance gaps have consequences measured in minutes. As a PhD cybersecurity researcher and program director affiliated with an NSA-designated Center of Academic Excellence, he has spent the same years studying why technology governance programs fail — and what makes the ones that work different.
Hackademic's methodology reflects both halves of that record: every engagement is anchored in published frameworks (NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, AIUC-1, OWASP LLM Top 10, MITRE ATLAS) and hardened against operational reality. No frameworks-as-theater. No vendor marketing dressed up as methodology.
Dr. James Jaurez
Chief Research Officer
Bio coming soon.
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