ATLANTA, November 12, 2026. ChainIT, which builds verified-authority and governed-execution infrastructure, has joined the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) as a corporate member and added three Atlanta-based team members: Jason Patrick as Chief Commercial Officer, Alex Knight as Vice President, Verified Payments and Authority, ChainIT Pay, and Joshua Lewis as Senior Sales Engineer, ChainIT Pay.
Patrick joined ChainIT in August 2026 after serving as TAG’s Chief Development Officer from 2023 to 2026. He brings more than 25 years of enterprise technology leadership, with deep roots in go-to-market strategy, commercial model design and channel alliances. At ChainIT, he leads commercial strategy across enterprise and government accounts, strategic partnerships and channel.
This week, ChainIT published The Authority Gap Has No C-Suite Owner, an executive white paper written by Patrick. Most companies have a delegation of authority matrix, but it is a document approved once a year. The approval rights themselves live in the ERP system, the banking portal, the e-signature tool and now the AI agent platform, and each one drifts on its own schedule. When a payment releases or a contract is signed, nothing checks, at that moment, whether the person or agent acting still holds the authority to act. That runtime gap falls between finance, risk, security, technology and legal, so no single executive owns it, and AI agents that repeat a mistake on every transaction they touch make it a board issue. The paper gives chief executives, chief financial officers, chief risk officers and their boards five questions to answer before any action of consequence executes, a scorecard for deciding where to start, and a plan for the first 90 days.
“Most companies can tell you who logged in. Very few can prove who had the authority to act,” said Patrick. “As AI agents start acting for companies, that question lands with the board, and the first step is an assignment, not a purchase: name an owner. TAG has been home for me for a long time, and I’m glad ChainIT is part of this community.”
Knight joined ChainIT’s leadership team in October 2026 and leads ChainIT Pay’s payments roadmap, strategy and merchant services models. He brings more than 20 years of experience driving payments revenue and margins for processors and software businesses through embedded payments and fintech solutions.
Lewis joined ChainIT Pay in June 2026. He leads technical discovery, solution design, product demonstrations and integration strategy with prospects and partners, turning ChainIT’s verified identity, organizational authority, Pactvera agreements and payment integration into practical business solutions for both human and agentic transactions.
ChainIT also sponsored Fintech South 2026 and is a 2026 annual sponsor of the TAG FinTech Society. Read the white paper at chainit.com/the-authority-gap-no-c-suite-owner.
About ChainIT
ChainIT provides verified-authority and governed-execution infrastructure. ChainIT ID verifies the person, ChainIT Org ID verifies the organization and who may act for it, and Pactvera governs agreements and their execution, settling through ChainIT Pay or the payment platform a client already uses. Every transaction and every agent action of consequence, as the client’s business rules define it, leaves an immutable, append-only record. ChainIT holds 15 granted U.S. patents. Learn more at chainit.com.
Contact
Jason Patrick, Chief Commercial Officer, ChainIT
j.patrick@chainit.com
