John T. Hardenbergh is a retired Navy officer and co-founder in 1999 of BAI, Inc., and subsidiary Gold Comet in 2018. His enterprise work has been centered upon delivery of professional services and program management support for critical infrastructure in the Defense Industrial Base, Homeland Security, and Intelligence Community arenas. Through Gold Comet, he is now driven to resolve the challenges of information privacy and data security in a world increasingly plagued by identity and intellectual property theft.