Andor Kesselman

Andor Kesselman is a seasoned CTO and recognized leader in Decentralized Identity, with a deep focus on multi-agent systems and governance. He has been researching agent architectures since 2018, including early work in DecPOMDP that anticipated today’s advances. His startup, AgentOverlay, focuses on bridging multi-agent theory with years of work in decentralized identity. He helps lead the Bay Area chapter of Project NANDA and chairs the Technical Steering Committee at the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF), where he is also launching the Trusted AI Agents Working Group. His work centers on the emerging challenges of multi-agent governance-from identity and trust to policy enforcement-critical issues that must be solved to responsibly scale the agentic web.