FIDO Leadership

Anna Pobletts is the head of passwordless at 1Password. In her role, she oversees the company’s passwordless solutions, with a focus on bringing passkeys to enterprises and consumers around the world. Previously, Anna was the co-founder and CTO of Passage Identity, a developer-first passwordless authentication company, which was acquired by 1Password in November 2022. Anna is passionate about security and creating a safer, human-centric online experience. For over a decade, her work has been focused on identity, cryptography, and application security, with previous positions at the Department of Defense, Praetorian, and Twilio.

Arynn Crow leads the User Authentication product team, where she is responsible for driving strategy in AWS authentication flows and threat detection services across mobile and web experiences. Previously, she led the product, program, and operations groups for Amazon’s retail customer service identity team. Arynn has spent nearly a decade with Amazon, focusing most of that time on security and identity, leading a range of initiatives from extensive access control restructuring, to deployment of strong authentication services, and identity management solutions. Arynn holds an undergraduate degree in International Affairs, and a master’s degree in Political Science.

Matt Crothers is a Director of Engagement at American Express.  In this role, Matt is responsible for creating the strategy for Amex’s engagement at industry bodies EMVCo, W3C and FIDO as well as representing Amex externally at those organizations and others.

Matt joined American Express in 2005 and has held a variety of roles across multiple lines of business.  Matt’s roles have always focused on relationship management and developing strategy and has included stints in Finance, Technical Delivery and Product Management.  Matt holds a bachelor’s degree from The University of Arizona.

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Karen is Senior Director of Strategic Alliances at Axiad, a provider of authentication and identity security solutions. She has more than 15 years of technical experience delivering counsel for many of the largest and most complex organizations in the world. With an extensive background in API security, SAML and OAuth – as well as deep experience in providing guidance to organizations looking to develop their Zero Trust framework, implementing MFA, and passwordless strategies – Karen is a trusted thought leader in the industry.

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​​Abbie Barbir is a member of CVS Health Enterprise Information Security where he serves as a Senior Security Advisor in the areas of Consumer Identity & Access Management, Mobile devices and Authentication. Mr. Barbir has extensive experience in identity and access management. He has worked with many standard organizations on developing next generation authentication technologies. Mr. Barbir holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, USA. In his more than 25 years in the software and security industry, he has been a professor of Computer Science, an application developer, data compression and encryption inventor, systems architect, security architect, engineering manager, consultant, author, and inventor of numerous security algorithms and articles.

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Rew is the Director of Product Engineering and Innovation at Dashlane, with over 20 years of software development experience. After a decade at Dashlane working on mobile apps, he now leads projects focussed on passwordless technologies and phishing-resistant authentication. Hailing from Brick Lane in London’s East End, Rew currently resides near Paris, France.

Karen Chang focuses on international collaboration and government relationships at Egis Technology Inc. She previously served for government agencies such as the Office of Science and Technology and Ministry of Economic Affairs. Ms. Chang is deeply involved in the ICT industry, such as information security, e-government applications, open data and big data policy. (In 2015 and 2016, Taiwan won top 1 of OKFN Open Data Index among 146 countries in the world.) Ms. Chang is currently the Chairperson of the Business Case/Application Working Group of Asia PKI Consortium (APKIC), FIDO Alliance Liaison Officer to APKIC, Project Consultant of Academia Sinica of Taiwan, Chairperson of FIDO-PKI Integration Working Group in Taiwan Association of Information and Communication Standards, and the Advisor of TWCERT/CC.

Tibi Zhang is the Vice President, Managing Director of Feitian International Business. In this role, she is responsible for driving strategic direction, business development, and overseas market expansion for Feitian’s entire portfolio across the spectrum of online banking, PKI initiatives, multi-factor authentication, mobile security and payment, cloud authentication server, EMV innovation payment solution, powered card with display, BLE connection and biometric authentication, and the ongoing evolution of FIDO authentication through best-of-breed security hardware, software and services. She has worked with Tier-one service providers and leading enterprises across the globe to deliver innovation, value and growth to Feitian’s valued customers and partners. Ms. Tibi holds a Masters Degree of Information Systems Engineering from University of Manchester in UK.

Sam is the lead for strong authentication standards in the Identity & Connections team at Google. In earlier roles, he served as Product Management Director for the Google Sign-in experience and provided product leadership for BeyondCorp, Google’s implementation of Zero Trust access.

Earlier, Sam was Chief Technologist in the Security Business Unit at Juniper Networks. He came to Juniper through the $400M acquisition of SSL-VPN pioneer Neoteris, a startup that he co-founded. Prior to that, he was at WebMD, Microsoft Research and Rockwell. Sam holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley. 

Bojan Simic is the Chief Technology Officer and Cofounder of HYPR. Previously, he served as an information security consultant for Fortune 500 enterprises in the financial and insurance verticals conducting security architecture reviews, threat modeling, and penetration testing. Bojan has a passion for deploying applied cryptography implementations across security-critical software in both the public and private sectors. His extensive experience in decentralized authentication and cryptography have served as the underlying foundation for HYPR technology.

Teresa Wu is Vice President of Product Management for IDEMIA. Ms. Wu’s career began with Morpho in 2001, then she served as Global Software Solutions Marketing Director for a Fortune 500 company until 2015. She rejoined one of the U.S. subsidiaries of IDEMIA in 2015 to serve as the Senior Director of Strategic Marketing and Government Relations.

In the past 19 years, she has actively participated in and led various industry advocacy groups devoted to AFIS technology, facial recognition, public security and identity and biometric standards. In her current role, Ms. Wu is responsible for the product management function of the IDEMIA Identity and Security Business in North America. With her team, she is currently leading key initiatives to transform and converge the business unit product portfolios. In 2016, Ms. Wu was recognized for her contributions to the biometrics industry and was one of five recipients of the Women in Biometrics award. The Security Industry Association named Ms. Wu as one of the two recipients of the 2017 Statesman Award. Ms. Wu was recognized for her pivotal role in the association advocacy effort in supporting effective and appropriate use of biometric technology at the Federal and State levels. Ms. Wu is the current chair of the board of directors for the Identification Technology Association (IdTA) and a member of the leadership team of the Women in Identity organization. In 2020, with a group of IDEMIA executives, Ms. Wu has co-founded Women in IDEMIA Network (WIN) for the North America region which is the first company Employee Resource Group fostering women career development and diversity initiatives. 

She obtained International Management bachelor degrees at the Montpellier Sup de Co Group Business School in France and the Newcastle School of Management in the UK.  She received her MBA from Rawls College of Business, Texas Tech University and Master of International Business from the Montpellier Sup de Co Group Business School. 

Preeti is the Senior Director of System Engineering at Infineon Technologies and has 25+ years of experience in various leadership functions within the Semiconductor, IT and Electronics industry. She is currently leading Connected Security Systems Division’s system engineering team that is responsible for system integration, compliance and validation services for Identification, Payment, Transport, IoT and Device Authentication applications based on contactless and dual-interface security controllers. Preeti holds a Degree in Electronics and Telecommunication engineering from BIT Sindri, India.

James Cole, Senior Director Security Architecture & Strategic Planning and the Global Security Domain Lead at Intel Corporation is responsible for various aspects of Intel’s security portfolio along with strategic alignment and leadership across the company for security related technologies. Mr. Cole has over 20 years of experience as a senior technical and business leader at Intel in a variety of business units and functional roles from strategy and marketing to technical leadership positions. Mr. Cole and his team currently drive security strategy and define the security solutions spanning the Intel product lines and business units. Mr. Cole has a BS in Computer Science from Purdue University along with an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

Rakan Khalid leads the product management team at Intuit with the mission to build a secure, convenient, and flexible Identity verification and authentication platform that serves a diverse group of 100M+ Intuit users. Prior to Intuit, Rakan held roles at eBay where he led their authentication platform and at Intel’s consumer security business where he built and grew an award-winning password management app. Rakan holds a BSc in Computer Science with Distinction from York University in Canada, and an MBA with a general management focus from Western University’s Ivey Business School in Canada.

Philipp Pointner facilitates Jumio’s product strategy and, with his team, turns visions into products. Prior to Jumio, Philipp was responsible for paysafecard, Europe’s most popular prepaid solution for online purchases. Earlier Philipp spent 10 years in the Payments Industry working on the Issuing and Acquiring side.

As LastPass’ first Chief Security Technology Officer, Chris Hoff brings nearly 30 years of experience in high-profile global roles in network and information security architecture, engineering, operations and management. Leading both the technology and information security teams at LastPass, Hoff is responsible for the company’s technological innovation and the company’s security program. Previously, Hoff led the “Never Down” resilience program at Bank of America as well as their Global Cybersecurity Technology and Operations teams.  Past roles include executive security and technology positions at Citadel, Juniper, Cisco, Unisys, Crossbeam, and others.

Hoff is interviewed regularly by the media and press, is a featured guest on numerous podcasts and has keynoted and presented at numerous high-profile security conferences including Black Hat, DefCon, Microsoft’s Bluehat, RSA, Source Boston, SecTor, FIRST, SANS, You Shot the Sheriff, and Troopers and is a founding member and technical advisor to the Cloud Security Alliance, founder of the CloudAudit project and the HacKid STEM conference and blogs at http://www.rationalsurvivability.com/blog

Nima Nadav Baiati is Executive Director/GM, Commercial Cybersecurity Solutions at Lenovo. As part of his role he is also the founder and head of the Lenovo Cybersecurity Innovation Center in Israel.  Nima leads Lenovo’s security product and portfolio management and strategy for Lenovo’s security capabilities below-the-OS (e.g. BIOS, FW, etc.) as well as Lenovo’s ThinkShield portfolio of security solutions and services, including P&L responsibility.  He was previously head of product management for Absolute’s Persistence platform, Head of Global GTM Strategy for Symantec and responsible for business development and product marketing at several start-ups.  He received his BS from the University of San Francisco, an MBA from Cornell University and holds numerous cybersecurity and data privacy certifications (CEH, CIPP/E, GSEC, etc.).

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Sameer Tare leads Authentication Standards team within the Security Standards & Solutions program at Mastercard. In this role, Sameer Tare and his team are responsible for defining standards that can lead to authentication & fraud prevention solutions for card not present (e-commerce) transactions that are scalable and reduce the friction usually associated with cardholder verification during e-commerce transactions. His work also overlaps with solutions in Risk Analysis, Identity Verification & Biometric Authentication domains.

Sameer Tare and his team work closely with EMVCo which is a global technical body responsible for development and maintenance of specifications like EMV® 3DS. This work allows Sameer & his team to bring the nuanced perspective of payments to all authentication solutions.

Sameer holds over 15 years of experience working with different authentication technologies within different organizations like Broadcom (formerly CA Technologies), PricewaterhouseCoopers & Wipro Technologies.

Shengfei is a software engineer from Meta. He is collaborating with multiple teams on different topics: Device signals, Login Service, Company Account Access, Mobile Identity, Integrity, and RL devices. All these areas are good candidates for passkey technology. Before Meta, Shengfei worked on FIDO registration and authentication for payment in Visa Research. He also developed IoT monitoring and measurement system for National Instruments back 2006. Shengfei got his bachelor’s and master’s degree from Shanghai JiaoTong University.

Dana Huang is a Partner Director of Software Engineering in Microsoft Cloud & AI organization, with primary responsibilities in Core Platform Security and Enterprise. In her role, she leads a group of security experts and developers to deliver core Operating System security solutions that power and protect systems, Azure cloud, intelligent edge devices, and customers. With the high demand and ever growing threats in cyber security world, her group is in the front of protection at a wide range that includes identity, credential protection, data protection, integrity protection, threat isolation, trust management, and hardware and services protection. In addition, her team provides solutions to move enterprise customers to the connected modern (cloud & data) world. Dana Huang has 24 years professional experience in software engineering and research, half of which in the security fields. She holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from Utah State University and a BS. Biomedical Engineering from Tsinghua University.

Rolf Lindemann is responsible for the development and strategy of the company’s products and solutions. Bringing more than 20 years of experience in product management, R&D and operations from the IT security industry, he has deep knowledge of security markets and technologies. Dr. Lindemann is one of the leading experts in FIDO and has been a frequent speaker at industry events.

Prior to Nok Nok Labs, Rolf Lindemann worked as Senior Director Product Management at Symantec where he was responsible for research and product strategy on device authentication in smart grids and mobile networks.

Before Symantec’s acquisition of TC TrustCenter, he was Executive Director Product Strategy at TC TrustCenter GmbH. Named to that position in 2009 he was responsible for analyzing market trends and aligning the overall product portfolio to new market opportunities.

Mr. Koichi Moriyama is Chief Security Architect, a Corporate Evangelist, and Head of Security Innovations Management, Corporate Strategy & Planning Department at NTT DOCOMO, INC.

Mr. Moriyama drove innovations in mobile devices, products, and platform software; and deployed “d ACCOUNT” Passwordless Authentication utilizing FIDO standards. To protect customers, he is now responsible for resolving unauthorized access, such as phishing attacks, by taking the initiative to work with entire teams within the company. He also plays some roles in industry organizations, such as JSSEC (Japan Smartphone Security Association) and FeliCa Networks, Inc.

Mr. Moriyama has previously held positions with Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Inc. and Sony Corporation, received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Keio University, and was a visiting research scholar at Georgia Institute of Technology while at Sony Corporation. He is a Ph.D. candidate at IISEC in Japan and has recently become a Board of Directors for W3C Inc.

Matthias Valcke leads the Authentication product team at OneSpan. In this role he is responsible for driving OneSpan’s data driven and intelligent adaptive authentication strategy, including FIDO authentication.

Prior to this, he has been in several customer facing roles, consulting the world’s largest enterprises globally and supporting OneSpan as a global leader in authentication with 2,000+ customers in the financial industry including more than 60 percent of the top 100 global banks.

He has more than 15 years of experience in authentication and information security and holds a M.S. in Computer Science from Ghent University.

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Greg Williamson is a recognized expert in digital fraud and identity management, with experience that includes fraud strategy and analytics, cyber fraud prevention technology, and product management of a global digital identity product set. Greg is currently leading the Digital Identity Product and Strategy Team at PNC bank, where he leads a team responsible for providing enterprise authentication and identity proofing solutions for PNC’s customers, clients and employees.   Prior to PNC, Mr. Williamson’s has had many years of experience in digital identity and fraud prevention field with companies including Prudential, JP Morgan Chase, and MasterCard.

Dr. Giridhar D. (Giri) Mandyam is the Chief Security Architect for all IoT and Automotive products that Qualcomm produces. He has also worked at Rockwell International, Texas Instruments and Nokia. In addition to being Qualcomm’s Advisory Committee representative to the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C), he has served as Chair of the W3C Geolocation Working Group. He has also served Chair of the S34-3 Ad Hoc Group on Presentation Logic and Service Frameworks for the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) and was a key contributor in development of the ATSC 3.0 specification. Dr. Mandyam is inventor or co-inventor of more than 45 issued US patents, and was recognized in 2017 by Qualcomm with the IP Achievement Award. He has also published over 80 conference and journal papers, and 5 book chapters. He is a co-author of the text Third-Generation CDMA Systems for Enhanced Data Services (Academic Press, 2002). He is also a Senior Member of the IEEE and has been a member of the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

Eugene Lee is responsible for the development and strategy of the company’s global business. Bringing more than 32 years of experience in sales, business development, product management, and operations from the payment industry to IT industry, he has served companies in areas of card payment, payment gateway, SSO, IAM, PKI, and other innovative technologies. 

Prior to RaonSecure, Eugene Lee worked as Head of Business Development at Visa where he was responsible for business development with large financial institutions, fintech, and merchants. 

In the past, he has also worked at British Petroleum, Hewlett Packard, Silicon Graphics, Lucent Technologies, Entrust, Softforum, and KG Inicis. 

Sean Miller is an architect at RSA with more than 20 years of experience in identity & access management, and information security. Prior to RSA, he held various positions at Aveksa, CA Technologies, Netegrity, Sybase, as well as Watcom. Mr. Miller has been at the forefront of security and identity management contributing engineering efforts for several commercially available security and identity products and holds several patents in the identity management space. He received his Bachelor of Mathematics (Honours Computer Science/Information Systems) from University of Waterloo. He is an avid cyclist and skier. In the winter, he works as part of a ski race crew supporting races at all levels including world cup and Special Olympics.

Dr. Seungwon Shin is the Head of the Security Team at Mobile Experience Business, Samsung Electronics and he is responsible for the risk assessment, security governance, and security solution development. He is also co-affiliated with KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) as an associate professor.

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As Chief Experience Officer at Trusona, Kevin facilitates collaboration amongst people who specialize in human factors, technology, marketing and aesthetics to help solve one of the most wicked problems of our digital society: passwords.

Prior to Trusona, Kevin founded the user experience (UX) consulting firm, 29^th Drive. He grew its book of business, culture and reputation, which led to its acquisition in 2014.

With FIDO Executive Director & CMO Andrew Shikiar, Kevin originated the FIDO UX Task Force in 2020.

In addition to other entrepreneurial ventures, Kevin developed the curriculum and taught Arizona State University’s first UX course in 2017 for Masters students in design.

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Michael Toth is an experienced business leader with a 26-year focus upon driving innovative and practical security strategies which address current and emerging threats. He has implemented large scale authentication solutions which are utilized by 66+mm digital customers.

He joined the U.S. Bank Digital Platforms team at the beginning of 2022 as Senior Vice President leading the Login Portfolio Product Management team.  The team is segmented into multiple product management teams focused upon various aspects of digital authentication capabilities supporting U.S. Bank and partner sites.

Prior to U.S. Bank he spent a decade in total at Bank of America where he held a SVP position as the Strategy Lead for the Omni Channel Authentication technology team.  Additionally, he spent time at Early Warning as their VP of Product Management in Authentication and on the 41st Parameter’s Product team. 

His start in the authentication space began with a 12-year period at First Union/Wachovia Bank in the beginning days of online banking…or as they called it back in the 90s; Cyberbanking where he led the Authentication Services product team.

Sunpreet is a Senior Research Scientist at Visa Research where he leads the identity and authentication research program. He is a co-inventor on over 35 patent applications and has published over 15 research articles in top international conferences and journals. His research has been featured in several national and international media outlets, such as Forbes, MIT Technology Review, ACM Multimedia, NASA Tech Briefs and BBC UK.

He is the recipient of several awards, including the Best Demo Award at IJCB 2020, the Best Paper Award at BIOSIG 2016, and the Best Poster Award at BTAS 2012. In 2017, he received the honorable Civilian Citation from the Lansing Police Department and Meritorious Service Award from the Michigan State University Police Department for providing assistance in unlocking a murder victim’s smartphone using synthetically generated 2D and 3D fingerprints of the victim.

Sunpreet received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Michigan State University, and B.Tech.(Hons.) in Computer Science and Engineering from IIIT-Delhi.

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Brad Doctor is an innovative security professional with over 20 years of experience. As the Vice President of Security Engineering, Architecture and Offensive Security currently for VMware and previously for Level 3 Communications, Mr. Doctor has been at the forefront of cloud security architecture and engineering for nearly 10 years, and has led design and engineering efforts for several commercially available security products and services. With nearly 20 patents in various technology domains Mr. Doctor not only leads, he innovates and influences the cloud security industry.

Amy Ulrich is part of the Wells Fargo Customer Identity and Access Management team where she helps secure customer identity and authentication solutions across web and mobile banking.  She has more than 17 years technology and security experience across many industries. 

Yuya Ito is Vice President for the ID Division since 2018. He has worked for Yahoo! JAPAN ID since 2012. Yuya began his career as a Platform Engineer in 2009.

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