Qui Hoang
CTO and ETIC Chairman
- Qui Hoang is a seasoned technology leader and hands-on innovator with over 30 years of experience in computing, artificial intelligence, and national security applications. As CTO and Chairman of the Emerging Technology Innovation Center at KGH, he leads efforts to evaluate, prototype, and deploy advanced technologies in support of homeland security, defense, and critical infrastructure resilience.
- An electrical engineer with a strong background in physics, Qui began his distinguished career at Intel Corporation, where he contributed to the design teams of the groundbreaking x86 CPU family, including the 80486 and Pentium, and later held leadership roles on the ARM-based XScale architecture group. He helped spearhead Intel’s strategic expansion into Asia, bringing deep geopolitical and market insight into global technology deployments.
- Qui has worked in AI since 2014, with a specialty in the current AI Agents and Model Context Protocol (MCP). His work includes facial recognition systems, behavioral analytics, NLP-based discovery tools, and disease tracking solutions. He was instrumental in delivering one of the first COVID-19 contact tracing systems, for which a patent has been filed.
- Beyond Intel, Qui served as President of a Goldman Sachs company, where he created a portfolio of AI and blockchain innovations, including a stock market prediction engine. Goldman Sachs also acquired a facial recognition IP from him personally.
- Currently, as Vice President of Advanced Technologies at Fortior Solutions, he oversees R&D in AI, machine learning, and secure identity platforms, with an emphasis on rapid practical integration into both public-sector and enterprise systems.
- Qui’s unconventional path, from immigrant, taxi driver, chef to top executive and technologist, gives him a unique lens on human systems, technical problem-solving, and leadership under pressure. His mission today is to help ignite KGH as a 21st-century hub of intelligent resilience, combining the best of human insight with the most powerful tools AI can offer.