KELLIE LIKET

Behavioral Archetype

THE MEASUREMENT SCHOLAR WITH A SEAT ON EACH RELATED BOARD — Subject is a philanthropy adviser who holds a doctorate in how to measure social impact and who is the President of Ergo Impact, the adviser whose return lists Fathom, Halcyon Futures, Sentinel Bio and Seismic Catalyst Foundation as related. Her university’s page on her 2014 defence says her research “focuses on the role of impact measurement in strategic decision making in for-profit, nonprofit and philanthropic organizations.” The same name appears as Director of Halcyon Futures Inc, Board Member of Fathom, Secretary of Sentinel Bio and Secretary of Seismic Catalyst Foundation. She has no listed seat at AVERI. The hazard is not a gate. She approves, funds on her own account and blocks nothing in the record read. It is that the person trained to say what counts as evidence of impact is an officer of the funders and sponsors around the AI evaluator layer. This profile scores the position, not the person.

Essence Indicators

• Co-founder and President, Ergo Impact. Ergo’s page lists “Kellie Liket” as “CO-FOUNDER, PRESIDENT”: “Kellie Liket holds a PhD in impact measurement from Erasmus University and a Master’s in development economics from the LSE. She has spent more than a decade advising foundations, NGOs, and governments on philanthropic strategy, guiding hundreds of millions in grants. She co-founded Effective Giving before launching Ergo.” Ergo’s TY2025 Form 990 lists her as President at 40 hours a week with $325,653 reportable compensation and $4,614 other; the FY2024 return lists her as President at $105,464 and $10,268 other. Her co-founder Max Henderson is the return’s Chief Executive Officer and principal officer (Ergo Impact; ProPublica, Ergo Impact TY2025 Form 990; ProPublica, Ergo Impact Inc).

• The doctorate, in her own abstract. Erasmus University Rotterdam announced her defence of “Why ‘Doing Good’ is Not Good Enough. Essays on Social Impact Measurement” for 11 April 2014, with Professor Harry Commandeur as supervisor, and printed her abstract: “However, evidence seems to suggest that this ‘doing good’ is not effectively solving these social problems.” It names three causes, among them “a lack of results (impact) measurement at the organizational level,” and a framework: “This REFLEct framework is comprised of five elements: Relevance, Ethics, Fit, Legitimacy and Effectiveness.” The university’s note on her says her work “has been published in various academic journals, including the Journal of Business Ethics, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly and the American Journal of Evaluation” (Erasmus University Rotterdam, PhD defence of Kellie Liket, 8 Apr 2014).

• Director, Halcyon Futures Inc. The FY2024 return lists “Kellie Liket” as Director and Max Henderson as Secretary, one hour a week each and $0, beside Chief Executive Officer Michael Mccormick at $283,181 reportable compensation; the FY2023 return lists her as Director at $0 (ProPublica, Halcyon Futures Inc FY2024 Form 990; ProPublica, Halcyon Futures Inc). Halcyon’s about page does not list her. See Halcyon Futures and Mike McCormick.

• Board Member, Fathom AI Inc. Fathom’s FY2024 return summary lists “Kellie Liket (Board Member)” and “Max Henderson (Board Member)” at $0, beside co-founders Andrew Freedman, Bri Treece and Blake Pierson. Fathom’s own pages read name no board. Fathom describes itself as “an independent nonprofit whose mission is to build a global architecture that helps society navigate the transition to a world with AI by fostering trust, safety, and innovation” (ProPublica, Fathom AI Inc; Fathom, About). See Fathom.

• Secretary and director, Sentinel Bio. Sentinel Bio’s FY2024 return lists “Dr Kellie Liket” as Secretary at five hours a week and $0, and Max Henderson as Treasurer. Its people page lists her on the Board of Directors: “Dr. Kellie Liket is the President at the philanthropic advisor Ergo Impact. She has spent more than a decade supporting foundations, NGOs, and governments on their strategies, and has advised on hundreds of millions of dollars in philanthropic grants.” Its organization page lists “Max Henderson” among current supporters and no entry for her (ProPublica, Sentinel Bio FY2024 Form 990; Sentinel Bio, People; Sentinel Bio, Organization). See Sentinel Bio.

• Secretary, Seismic Catalyst Foundation. Seismic Catalyst Foundation (EIN 33-3325360, Delaware, exemption August 2025, a related organization on Ergo’s Schedule R, activity “AI SAFETY EDUCATION AND AWARENESS”) lists on its FY2025 return “Kellie Liket (Secretary),” with “Michael Mccormick (Director)” and “Maximillian Henderson (Director),” each at $0 (ProPublica, Seismic Catalyst Foundation; ProPublica, Ergo Impact Schedule R).

• Not on the evaluator’s pages. AVERI’s team and about pages, Halcyon’s about page and Fathom’s about and partnerships pages, each read in full for her name, print none. Her seats are on filings and on Sentinel Bio’s page.
• Social accounts: none verified. Ergo’s page links no social account and Sentinel’s page links none for her. LinkedIn is not used as a source. No X handle is added.

Social Persona / Impression Management

Immediate impression: The methodologist. A doctorate in measuring whether giving works, a decade of advising foundations, then a firm that “finds, funds, and scales” projects. The footprint is a bio on Ergo’s page, a doctoral abstract from 2014 and five filings.

Energy: Quiet and institutional. The record read contains no interview, talk, op-ed or social post under her name since the 2014 defence, and two of her five offices are the secretary’s.

Impression management strategy: The credentialed adviser, carried by the organizations. Ergo’s page opens its team section with “Our team comes from the highest levels in academia, business, and government” and leads her entry with the degrees; Sentinel’s repeats “has advised on hundreds of millions of dollars in philanthropic grants” (Ergo Impact; Sentinel Bio, People).

First-hand exhibits. Her own words in the record are the 2014 abstract; nothing quoted is a post, interview or filing statement by her.

Forensic Archetype Comparison

Psychometric Assessment

Trait scores are observations of the documented public role, not claims about private character.

Big Five (OCEAN) (inferred from the public role and public record only):

Dark Triad (evidence-bound):

MBTI: INTJ-adjacent (“The Architect”), inferred from the documented public role only. The rationale is the work product: a framework, a thesis and a firm built around prioritization. First-hand rationale: “We rigorously prioritize the problems where high-leverage philanthropy can have outsized impact” (Ergo Impact), the firm’s sentence, not hers. A style inference, not a test result.

Threat Assessment

Score rationale. The receipts: Ergo’s page and TY2025 return, the Halcyon, Fathom and Sentinel Bio returns, Sentinel’s people page, the Seismic Catalyst org page and Erasmus’s page on her defence. Attack 4, defense 4, durability 4, hazard 40.0. Peers: Max Henderson (5/5/4, hazard 46.7), her co-founder and the return’s CEO: the same set of related offices, plus the AVERI board seat she does not hold and a named supporter line at Sentinel Bio, so a point above on attack and defense and level on durability. Kyle Scott (4/4/3, hazard 36.7), who holds officer posts at three evaluators: level on attack and defense, a point below on durability, which in her case rests on a doctoral record that persists outside any seat. Sawyer Bernath (3/4/3, hazard 33.3), an unpaid director at two evaluators, a point below on attack and durability. Durability 4 is the number most open to challenge: it leans on a thesis and three journals her university names and that this profile did not retrieve.

Score basis. ATK 4 is offices: Secretary of Sentinel Bio, Director of Halcyon Futures Inc, Board Member of Fathom, President of Ergo, none a gate (ProPublica, Sentinel Bio FY2024). DEF 4 is insulation: $325,653 from an organization funded entirely by contributions, $0 elsewhere, with a portable doctorate (ProPublica, Ergo TY2025). HP 4 is durability: young organizations plus a doctoral record that outlasts any seat (Erasmus).

Alignment Analysis

Stated alignment: Make giving effective, and measure it. In her abstract’s words: “to provide concrete suggestions on how this ‘doing good’ can be done better” (Erasmus). Observed alignment: Consistent. She holds offices at the adviser and at the incubator, sponsor and biosecurity fund that the adviser’s return lists as related (ProPublica, Ergo Impact Schedule R). Gap assessment: None documented. What the record cannot settle is who funds Ergo, how the related-organization relationship is defined and whether any of the organizations measures its own impact in the sense her thesis argues for; none of their pages says.

Interest: Documented, never motive, never a verdict. She has published no policy argument on AI evaluation in the record read; the positions below are her thesis’s and the organizations’ she holds offices at.

1. Position: philanthropy should measure results, because a lack of results measurement is one cause of the “paradox of ‘doing good’” (her abstract: “a lack of results (impact) measurement at the organizational level,” Erasmus). What adoption pays: an adviser that sells rigorous prioritization is paid by contributions for it; Ergo’s return shows $3,731,127 of contributions and her $325,653 (ProPublica, Ergo TY2025). Best case: hers: “‘Doing good’ is thus often not good enough.” Others who gain: evaluators, whose product is measurement.
2. Position: society needs “a global architecture” of trust, safety and verification for AI (Fathom: “to build a global architecture that helps society navigate the transition to a world with AI by fostering trust, safety, and innovation,” Fathom). What adoption pays: she is a Board Member of Fathom, and Fathom, an AVERI funder, is listed on Ergo’s return as related (ProPublica, Fathom; AVERI, About). Best case: Fathom’s own. Others who gain: the evaluators and certifiers the policy it sponsors would license.

Alliance Map

The Corporate rows overlap in names and in time with Max Henderson’s: the same two names are officers or directors of the incubator, the sponsor, the biosecurity fund and the related foundation, and of the adviser whose return lists the other three as related. The overlap is the finding, in the open and on the record. See the small world.

Convergent Drive Classification

Self-preservation: Holds offices rather than assets: secretary or director at four related organizations and President at the fifth, each at one to five hours a week outside Ergo. First-hand: “Kellie Liket (Secretary)” (ProPublica, Seismic Catalyst). Goal preservation: Keeps one object, measured and prioritized giving, through an academic career and a firm. First-hand: “advising foundations, NGOs, and governments on philanthropic strategy” (Ergo Impact). Resource acquisition: Her reportable compensation at Ergo rose from $105,464 in FY2024 to $325,653 in TY2025 as the organization’s contributions rose from $1,858,577 to $3,731,127 (ProPublica, Ergo Impact Inc). Self-improvement: From a BA in Utrecht to a doctorate in Rotterdam to a firm: “She co-founded Effective Giving before launching Ergo” (Ergo Impact).

Subject is not an AI system. The drives appear anyway — in the scholar of measurement whose offices follow her co-founder’s.

Public footprint: Ergo Impact · Sentinel Bio people · Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Sources: Ergo Impact; ProPublica, Ergo Impact TY2025 Form 990; ProPublica, Ergo Impact Schedule R; ProPublica, Ergo Impact Inc; ProPublica, Halcyon Futures Inc FY2024 Form 990; ProPublica, Halcyon Futures Inc; ProPublica, Fathom AI Inc; Fathom, About; ProPublica, Sentinel Bio FY2024 Form 990; Sentinel Bio, People; Sentinel Bio, Organization; ProPublica, Seismic Catalyst Foundation; AVERI, Team; AVERI, About; Erasmus University Rotterdam, PhD defence of Kellie Liket.