CORE TEAM
Joel Haven Hill - CEO, Kemit Group, LLC
JOEL HAVEN HILL, M.S.Founder & CEO, Kemit Group LLC | Ret. Lt. Colonel, USAF | AI Governance Architect
Joel Haven Hill is a retired United States Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, decorated national intelligence professional, and the Founder and CEO of Kemit Group LLC — a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) headquartered in La Plata, Maryland.
With more than 45 years of integrated experience across military intelligence, federal investigative service, and AI governance architecture, Hill is the only practitioner in the field who synthesizes classified intelligence tradecraft, Bayesian probability methodology, peer-reviewed scholarship, and a patent-filed AI operating system into a single, deployable governance infrastructure for organizations that cannot afford to get AI wrong.
Military Career. Commissioned through the ROTC program at Tuskegee University in 1983, Hill served as a U.S. Air Force Intelligence Officer for nearly 22 years at the tactical, operational, strategic, and Joint Staff levels. In 2000, he was selected as Commander for one of the first Air Force units to plan and conduct Information Warfare and Operations — placing him at the operational frontier of what the field now calls AI governance, two decades before the market arrived there. He retired in 2004 as a Lieutenant Colonel, earning the Defense Meritorious Service Medal and the National Intelligence Medal of Achievement — awarded by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for exceptional contributions to the Intelligence Community.
Scholar & Published Author. In 2003, Hill published "Transforming Intelligence Education to Support Information Operations" in the Defense Intelligence Journal (Vol. 12, No. 1) — subsequently cited in the Columbia University SIPA Technology & Policy Working Paper Series. In 2024, he published Eternal Seekers: Awakening the Berean Spirit in the AI Age — the first book to synthesize Bayesian probability theory, the Hero's Journey, AI governance architecture, and biblical epistemology into a unified framework for human agency in the age of AI.
Federal Investigative Authority. Beginning in 2007, Hill served as a federal investigator with the Office of Personnel Management, the Department of Education Office of Inspector General, and the U.S. Fleet Cyber Command Office of Inspector General. In 2014, he founded Berean Investigations — integrating Bayesian evidence scoring and AI-assisted analytics into licensed investigative practice.
AIW Sovereign Intelligence Platform™. As Founder and CEO of Kemit Group LLC, Hill architected the AIW Sovereign Intelligence Platform — a fully governed, Bayesian-powered AI Operating System with the SEEKER Loop workflow, JARVIS Governance Enforcement Engine, and human-in-the-loop controls across air-gap, hybrid, and cloud deployment modes. The platform is the subject of USPTO Patent Application No. 19/430,088. The Genesis Cohort achieved a 0.92 Bayesian success rate against a 0.27 industry baseline across 12 organizations and five sectors.
Governing Posture. Everything Hill builds is anchored to the Berean principle of Acts 17:11 — the discipline of testing every claim against evidence before acting. AI outputs are examined. Confidence is scored. Humans retain authority. No output bypasses governance. That is not a philosophy statement. It is a testable, auditable protocol.
Growth without guardrails is speculation. Growth with governance is strategy. Growth with ownership is sovereignty.
Connect: kemitgroup.com | aiwworkstation.com | bereaninvestigations.com | linkedin.com/in/kemit-group-llc-berean-trusted-network-70a516237
Darlene Terry - Law Enforcement Adviser
Highly motivated, solutions-focused law enforcement professional with extensive experience and an impressive record of leadership; consistently sustained achievements within all levels of customer service, project management and resource planning. Proactive management style and strong people skills combined to implement strategic administrative and operational initiatives that enhance productivity, quality customer service, employee morale/motivation and overall bottom-line performance.
Kristi Hill - Compliance Adviser
Dr. Kristi Hill serves as the Acting Director of the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research. Dr. Hill earned a PhD in neuroscience from the Medical College of Virginia. She has published in peer reviewed journals and contributed to the development of book chapters, educational tools and training materials for research and clinical professionals, service providers, and people with disabilities. She also has also served on the editorial boards of several national journals and local publications. Dr. Hill was formerly the Director of Small Business at the U.S. Department of Education
Richard Egan
Federal Investigations Adviser
Will Holmes - Business Adviser
Will Holmes is an award-winning, international business consultant with clients and partners including The U.S. Department of Defense, The U.S. Small Business Administration, The U.S. Department of Treasury, The U.S. Department of Commerce, The Government of Kenya, The City of Baltimore, Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses, Wells Fargo Bank, M&T Bank, SoundExchange, The Harbor Bank of Maryland, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Morgan State University and hundreds of growing companies, non-profit organizations and universities around the world. His firm, WHC's focus is the efficiency, profitability and global growth of their clients. Also, Will Holmes is the newly elected Chairman of the Board for the Baltimore City Chamber of Commerce. Additionally, Will just purchased Wellness Today Spa, a boutique massage therapy spa right outside Baltimore City.
