Chad Ratashak

Midwest Frontier AI Consulting

Altoona, IA

https://midwestfrontier.ai/about/about-chad/

Chad Ratashak founded Midwest Frontier AI Consulting to help law firms and businesses use generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) responsibly through professional continuing education and training. He has spoken to numerous audiences on generative artificial intelligence, speaking to well over over one thousand people, presenting live and in person, presenting to record audiences (National Insider Threat Awareness Month 2024; ACAMS National Capital Chapter 2026), delivered keynote addresses, and provided live and recorded training. Prior to starting his consultancy, Mr. Ratashak was a senior financial crimes officer, VP, in the Financial Crimes Intelligence team of a major financial institution and was the private sector leader for the Department of Homeland Security’s Public-Private Analytic Exchange Program (AEP) on Ransomware Attacks on Critical Infrastructure in 2022. ChatGPT was not his first encounter with AI risk as an intelligence analyst: in Q4 2017, he received two awards from an employer while working as an intelligence analyst: a company-wide Commitment Award for the quality of a monthly analytical product; and a Teamwork Award for leading a multidisciplinary team that used machine learning to detect influence bots targeting an Arabic-speaking country. Mr. Ratashak is from central Iowa, where he graduated from Southeast Polk and was a Page in the Iowa House of Representatives. He attended the University of Oklahoma as a National Merit Scholar, where he earned both his B.A. degree, major in Arabic and a 5-year BA/MA in International Studies. Mr. Ratashak also completed the Arabic Language Flagship Capstone Year in Meknes, Morocco, and ran a podcast on the linguistics of Moroccan Arabic with his professor for several years after. He has spoken to audiences ranging from law firms and financial crimes professionals to small business owners and developers. At his prior role at a major financial institution,Mr. Ratashak also created two recorded trainings available to all employees (Introduction to Generative AI and Generative AI for Financial Crimes and Cybersecurity) and delivered Lunch & Learns for departments from Commercial Banking to Consumer Lending to Financial Crimes Investigations, reaching collectively well over a thousand employees.

Chad Ratashak's Courses

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Credit	Status	Total	Until
California MCLE Paralegal	Approved	6 Total	05-19-2028
Delaware Certified Paralegal Program	Approved	6 Total	05-19-2027
Florida Registered Paralegal	Approved	6 Total	05-19-2027
Indiana Paralegal CLE	Approved	6 Total	05-19-2027
NALA	Approved	6 Total	05-19-2027
Montana CLE Credit for Paralegals	Approved	6 Total	05-19-2028
North Carolina Continuing Paralegal Education	Approved	6 Total	05-19-2027
Ohio Certified Paralegals	Approved	6 Total	05-19-2027
NFPA	Approved	6 Total	05-19-2027
Texas State Bar of Paralegal Division	Approved	6 Total	05-19-2028
Washington Paralegal Association	Approved	6 Total	05-19-2027

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