Ralph Hasson is an Advisor to KUNGFU.AI, a leading consulting and engineering firm focused exclusively on artificial intelligence. He supports the KUNGFU.AI team in developing AI solutions for corporate boards.

Hasson is a member of The Headstrong Project Advisory Board, and he previously served as Lead Independent Director and Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee for Kerbey Lane Café. He also previously served on the Board of Directors of the Texas TriCities Chapter of NACD (National Association of Corporate Directors). He was the founding Chair of the Austin Board of Advisors for the Texas TriCities Chapter. Hasson is NACD Directorship Certified™, is an NACD Board Leadership Fellow and holds the NACD CERT Certificate in Cyber-Risk Oversight.

Hasson was President, Risk Transfer Solutions for Cybernance Corporation. Cybernance offered leading solutions for cyber risk governance. He led the effort to develop an integrated offering, combining a cyber risk transfer solution with the Cybernance platform.  

Hasson helped to build Chorda, the first enterprise conflict management-consulting firm, into a nationally recognized organization. Chorda developed enterprise systems for collaboration and conflict management for Halliburton, Shell, Conoco, Coors, Coca-Cola Enterprises and GE.  Several of those systems became national models.

He also launched the Policy Office for UT System Administration, which supports the fourteen institutions within the University of Texas System. The Policy Office was benchmarked by Starbucks, and recognized as a best practice model by leading compliance experts.

His new ideas in corporate governance and ethics oversight have been cited in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal after appearing in Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review and Directors Monthly.  He is the co-author of: Controlling the Costs of Conflict: How to Design a System for Your Organization (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1998). 

He is a graduate of the University of Texas (B.A., J.D.), and Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (MPA).