Andrei Cherny Andrei Cherny has spent nearly twenty years working to make the financial system more open and fair. He combines a background as an advisor to some of America’s top companies such as Intel, Qualcomm, and Bank of America, co-founder of the Democracy Journal, a financial fraud prosecutor who helped start the successful fight for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a historian who has authored two books, a Navy reserve officer, a nationally-recognized economic policy expert, and a White House aide who was the youngest White House speechwriter in American history.