MWC20 Barcelona Summit: Identity as a service empowering the digital economy

Brian serves as SVP of Sales for the Identity products at Boku. Brian works with Wallet, Remittance, Financial Institutions and Fintech companies around the globe to plan and implement Identity and Fraud solutions that begin with the mobile number as the identifier.Brian has been a global BD and Sales leader in the mobile space for a number of years. Prior to Boku, Brian ran BD for a Telefonica company. He was an early leader in the One Time Passcode (OTP) SMS space. Leading Sales at Twilio, Nexmo and mBlox (Sinch)

Ryan serves as Commercial Director at Callsign, helping Banks, Telco’s, E-Commerce, Government and Technology Partners provide their customers with world-class digital identity solutions and protection from fraud.

Previous to Callsign, Ryan spent 10 years at the UK’s largest online Financial Institution – Lloyds Bank, managing Digital Fraud. Responsible for Digital fraud & loss prevention, as well as the banks mobile authentication strategy and supplier management.

Keiron has worked in the world of mobile identity for the past 10 years, focused on data insights specifically from mobile operators. With experience ranging from the GSMA to end customer service provision, he’s now focused on supporting the mobile identity push within BT. ‘Doing is discovery

Andy Tobin is responsible for Evernym’s activities in the EMEA region, and head of business development globally. He is a key member of the team that created the world’s first self – sovereign identity network, Sovrin, and open sourced its code as Hyperledger Indy. Andy spent 11 years at
Telefonica where he ran all non-voice technology, built a mobile bank, and launched the iPhone in the UK. Prior to that he was responsible for e-and m-Commerce at Logica, where he also built the world’s first m-Commerce server way back in 1999

Saritha Arunkumar, BE MBA PhD is a security leader and master inventor. Saritha has 20+ years of experience all being in IT Security space and has been working in wide span of roles such as Security Lead, Consultant, Specialist, Senior Architect and now Security Leader. Saritha has gained deep expertise in Identity and Access Management solutions,
Decentralised Identity, Blockchain Security, Web Services security, and Public key Infrastructure, Cryptography, Privacy solutions and Internet security. Saritha has created reference architectures and best proactices for security blockchain solutions and applied it to various clients across the globe. Most of the projects that she has been involved revolve around creating end-to-end security architectures, designs and security solutions. Her vast experience with major banks, insurance firms, social security organizations, telecommunications, trading organizations, retail has made her Subject Matter Expert in defining end-to-end security architecture, high level and detail security designs and Infrastructure security solutions.

She has presented in a number of conference proceedings and has published papers on Security and has a big list of patents. Her research contribution to the wider community has
been demonstrated from time to time by chairing and presenting at Internal security seminars/workshops. She has enhanced her personal eminence through external collaborations and connections and is a Fellow of the British Computer Society. PhD in Mobile Security, MBA Operations Management, Winner of Top 100 Asian Stars in UK Tech 2018, Winner of 50 most influential women in cyber-security UK by SC, Highly Commendable Disruptor and Top 100 most influential BAME tech leaders in the UK 2018 and 2019, Winner of TechWomen50 2017, Runner up of Women of the Future 2013, Outstanding Innovation Award winner 2017 at IBM, IBM Hero 2019– these are some of the accolades.

Ea Chaillioux, VP Global Ecosystem Engagement, Digital Business Unit at IDEMIA.

Ea is leading the Global Ecosystem Engagement activity in IDEMIA’s Digital Business Unit where she engages with global and local players such as technology alliances, regulators, humanitarian organizations with a focus on Digital inclusion and financial inclusion, with the aim to share our expertise and enable business opportunities with IDEMIA’s Financial Institutions and Mobile Operators customers.

Previously, Ea was leading the Digital Solutions Business Line for Mobiles Operators Business Unit at IDEMIA covering marketing, presales, product experts, sales and operational teams. 

Before that, from 2007 to 2012, Ea was an account manager and then Head of the customer team in charge of business development of a strategic mobile operator customer at Nokia Siemens Networks. 

Between 1998 and 2007, she held various positions in Sales at Siemens Networks.

Emir joined IDEMIA in 2017 through the acquisition of his company Otono and is currently the VP of Digital Domains, Connectivity and IoT Security where he leads the development of IDEMIA’s eSIM connectivity solutions. 

In 2011, Emir started Otono Networks, a telecommunications company with a diverse portfolio including a disruptive global roaming MVNO, and a patented self-activating prepaid SIM card.

In 2014, Emir collaborated with Apple to launch a new service selling subscriptions directly to iPad users through the Apple SIM. This laid the foundation for Otono’s journey into eSIM, and evolved into today’s platform which solves the eSIM connectivity challenges for MNOs and OEMs worldwide.

Product building and business development professional, Ante is playing a key role in Infobip’s Mobile Identity solution as a Product Manager. With more than 16 years of valuable business experience,Ante has dedicated the last several years specializing in the development of new technologies such as Mobile Identity, Biometrics, and other Identity tech. A tech devotee, Ante is always open to discussing advances in technology, innovation, communication, customer security, and upgrading the way businesses interact with their audiences.

Nasos Kladakis is a Principal Product Manager Lead specialising in Identity and Access Management (IAM, CIAM). He is leading a global team of PMs – Solutions Architects, in the Microsoft Identity Product Group, focusing on Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM), Decentralised Identities and other cutting edge Identity technologies. Assisting organisations worldwide to choose the right IAM solutions for their employees, partners and customer.

Marek is responsible for Credit Management unit in O2 Czech Republic (before Telefonica Czech Republic), telecommunication leader in Czech Republic-from 2006. Prior to his role at O2 are Credit Scoring, Credit Risk Strategy, Collection process, Revenue Assurance and Settlement with Sales network. He was responsible for integration of both teams during merge of fixed provider (Czech Telecom) and mobile operator (Eurotel Praha), for implementation of new Credit Scoring and Collection solution and many other projects. He began his career in the Investment and Post Bank. Next nine years he spent on the Czech capital market, working in different brokerage houses trading on Prague Stock Exchange as Head broker, Manager of Trading and four years as CEO of P&P Brokers (later Charles Bridge Securities). Marek is Vice-Chairman of SOLUS (Credit Bureau in Czech Republic), responsible and representing Telecommunication sector. He is also Executive Director of O2 Financial Services, daughter company of O2 Czech Republic, providing new financial services for O2 customers and partners.

Jan has 16 years of experience with AI and man-machine interaction, both from academic research and from a commercial environment.

Jan is the director of Dataclair.ai and Chief Data Scientist at O2 Czech Republic. He has Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence, master’s degree in cybernetics and control engineering, and another master’s degree in philosophy. Before joining O2 in 2015, Jan had 12 years of academic research and teaching experience in AI, man-machine interaction, speech technologies and philosophy. He was Head of Department of Man-Machine Interaction at New Technologies Research Centre, University of West Bohemia, and a senior researcher at Department of Cybernetics. He’s currently a member of Department of Philosophy at the same university and he also cooperates with Centre for Theoretical Study of Charles University and with Czech Effective Altruism Group. He organises Prague AI Safety Meetup and he tries to be helpful to the Czech AI Safety and Alignment community.

Emrah serves as COO of Organon Analytics, which is the place that he could pursue his passion for connecting algorithms with the data. It is his and the company’s vision to make artificial intelligence available to everyone. He has led the development of more than 250 systems that are based on AI and machine learning in different sectors such as banking, telecommunications, entertainment, transportation and cyber security. These systems helped companies and business professionals to make more than 500 billion decisions. He has 13 years of industry experience in data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence applications. He holds a bachelor’s degree in statistics and a master’s degree in financial engineering

Michelle Wheeler is the SVP of Industry Relations at Payfone and has more than 25 years of experience in the communications industry with deep experience in operational credit and fraud strategies. Michelle’s career has focused on enabling operators around the world to leverage data and analytics to solve business problems. At Payfone, she is responsible for identifying technology needs within the communications industry and driving adoption.
A recognized expert in her field, Michelle has spoken at numerous conferences worldwide, most recently at GSMA in Shanghai and Bangkok, and has been quoted in countless articles. She served as a CFCA (Communications Fraud Association) board member for 10 years and is a long standing member of the TRMA (Telecommunications Risk Management Association), where she drove the creation and adoption of Fraud Types, Techniques and Terminology. She has previously served on Utica College’s Economic Crime Institute board, the first undergraduate and graduate degree program to fight economic crime in the USA. Michelle is a retired sergeant in the US Army.

Andy majored in computer science and has been working in IDENTITY / AUTHENTICATION area since 2010. He launched a service called T-AUTH in 2016 and In 2018, the platform was changed to a common brand of 3 Korean MNO called “PASS”. PASS has secured 26 million active users since its launch (55% of total customers). It is Korea’s No. 1 authentication platform that processes 1.1 billion customer certificates every month. Andy is an expert in identifying and brokering the needs of Service Providers and End Users and currently serving 30,000 partners. Now, Andy is running a “Zero Fraud” project with governments, telecommunications companies and financial companies to get rid of all Fraud.

Glyn is Global Product Director at Luca,Telefonica’s division specifically focused on creating propositions from insights. Working with the UK banks he helped create the initial sim swap product which is now part of Telefonica’s core offering across its global markets.

Burak is responsible for the Personal Cloud, Digital Identity, Advertising, Digital Telco and Messaging service

Richard heads an international team at the GSMA and is responsible for developing new innovative products and services beyond the core network in IoT, Identity and Big Data for the mobile ecosystem. ​

As the key lead for GSMA engagements in the vertical industries, specifically; FinTech, Automotive, Aviation and Manufacturing, Richard has recently launched the GSMA Innovation Foundry, creating a collaborative platform for GSMA members and partners to work together on the major challenges facing the industry. ​

In addition, Richard is responsible for the GSMA’s Strategy Group which regularly convenes to address strategic topics within the industry and supports the GSMA Board. ​

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Brian is the FinTech Vertical Lead at GSMA leading activities to enhance collaboration between the Financial Services vertical and the mobile eco-system. This reflects the strategy requested by the GSMA board to get closer to key verticals and better understand their needs.

His career includes product and commercial management in banking and mobile telecoms including O2, Lloyds and Barclays. As well as Telecomms, heading up the Digital Product team, Commerce, at Telefonica UK.