John Ellis is President and Head of Product at Codethink, a UK-based company specializing in trustable software for safety-critical and high-performance systems. A former Motorola executive and Global Technologist at Ford Motor Company, he is the best-selling author of The Zero Dollar Car. John has also served as an adjunct professor at the University of Notre Dame. Drawing on years of product leadership, consulting, and policy-facing speaking, he advises OEMs, regulators, and insurers on software liability, open source governance, and emerging risk-retention models for insuring software-driven systems.