FIDO Leadership

Abbie Barbir is a member of Aetna Global Information Security where he serves as a Senior Security Advisor in the areas of Identity 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.

Sean Estrada is Head of Industry Security Engagement, where he is responsible for driving Amazon’s engagement with security standards organizations and alliances. As a member of the Information Security team, he is an internal subject matter expert and leader in payment security risk and controls, and security’s liaison to legal and public policy teams across Amazon. Prior to joining Amazon, he worked for American Express as a founding member of the PCI Security Standards Council, advocating for a risk-based approach to securing payments. Sean holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting Information Systems from the University of Southern California, and is a certified information systems security professional (CISSP) and certified information systems auditor (CISA).

John Timar leads the Information Security Architecture and Strategy group at American Express and is responsible for leading a team of security professionals who define security architecture for strategic platforms and represent American Express in industry organizations. John has over 20 years of InfoSec experience in the financial industry and chairs the FIDO Board EMVCo Committee. John holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Northern Arizona University and is a CISSP and ISSAP.

Chris is a Director of Engineering at Apple. He leads a global team of engineers building scalable web-services that enable a variety of use-cases. Chris works closely with cross-functional hardware and software teams at Apple, and is passionate about delivering secure, private, and easy-to-use products. Prior to his current role, Chris helped pioneer the first consumer use of the eSIM. With more than 20 years at Apple, he has worked on a wide range of products and services and is named as inventor on 30 US-issued patents.

Udi is a senior business development manager focused on security for mobile, large screen compute, AR/VR, and home devices. Past roles include product management of Arm’s security IP.

Udi is based in Israel and holds a degree from Tel-Aviv University.

James Ahern is Daon’s CTO and a member of the Board of Directors. He is responsible for the research, development, and cloud services functions within Daon. He has overall responsibility for the technical leadership and direction of all Daon products and services. The Research team works on leading edge technology, developing new biometric algorithms which make it easier for consumers to interact online. The Engineering teams are responsible for the software products Daon delivers which incorporate that leading-edge research and support many of the largest authentication and biometric systems in the world. The Cloud Services team now delivers Daon’s software products as a service for customers with a scalable, secure and fully multi-tenant offering for small and large customers around the globe. James is Daon’s representative to the FIDO Alliance board and is an accomplished inventor with multiple patents to his name.

Prior to joining Daon, James worked at Electronic Data Systems (EDS) for seven years as a Systems Engineer where he developed and delivered computing systems for the US Government, General Motors, and a number of other clients. James holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and Microelectronics from University College Cork.

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.

Dario Salice is a Product Manager at Facebook. He works on Trust & Safety-related topics for the Workplace from Facebook platform, empowering cross functional-teams to build a safe, secure, and inclusive place to collaborate and work. Dario is also involved in various initiatives across Facebook to provide strong authentication solutions for everyone. Before that he was a Product Manager at Google working with high risk individuals.

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 Srinivas is Product Management Director, Information Security at Google and is responsible for various external and internal security initiatives. His team leads Google’s existing and new products in consumer strong authentication, such as 2-step verification, and he works in close coordination with Google’s Identity team. Prior to Google, Mr. Srinivas was Chief Technologist in the Security Business Unit at Juniper Networks. He came to Juniper through the $400M acquisition of a startup he co-founded, Neoteris, which established the SSL-VPN remote access category. Earlier, Mr. Srinivas was at Healtheon (WebMD), Microsoft Research and Rockwell. Mr. Srinivas has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University.

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.

Matthieu Nunnink is the Lead Architect for Identity and Access Management at ING Bank. He is responsible for the architecture and implementation of the various IAM services (Identity, Authentication, Authorization, and Cryptography). In addition to this role, he is ING Bank’s representative on the FIDO Alliance Board of Directors, which aims to simplify online authentication. Prior to this role he has held several positions in online banking, innovation, security and infrastructure. Mr. Nunnink received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Amsterdam. More information can be found on his LinkedIn profile: nl.linkedin.com/in/mnunnink

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.

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.

David Rivera is Director of Software and Device Security in Lenovo’s PC & Smart Devices group, where he is responsible for ensuring that Lenovo delivers secure products to its customers. Originally with IBM’s PC Division, David — a Lenovo Master Inventor with more than 20 years of experience in software development and security — has been involved in the delivery of key features for security and authentication in PCs, tablets and smart devices. Before joining the Board of Directors, David served as Chair of the FIDO Certification Working Group since its inception.

Naohisa Ichihara is currently the manager of the Application Security Team at LINE Corporation. He first started working as an engineer at major system integrator NTT DATA in 1995, where he was engaged in smart card OS and service security design, vulnerability countermeasure programs, and a project to acquire Common Criteria certification. From 2006 to 2010, Ichihara was involved in NFC technical use standardization activities as a member of the NFC Forum, and from 2006 until the present he has variously served as the project leader or project manager in smart card, NFC, web application and mobile application system development projects and security consulting work.

Michael has a broad, global, diversified background in various industries and markets, three decades of IT including two decades of full-time security leadership experience, and a strong focus on IT & security strategy.  Michael is a globally recognized thought leader, book author (“C(I)SO – And Now What?”) and (“Global CISO – Strategy, Tactics, & Leadership – How to Succeed in InfoSec and CyberSecurity“) , publisher, and has written numerous articles for security magazines, and has also been frequent speaker, panelist and moderator at security conferences.  He holds a master of science (physics) from the Ivy League University of Heidelberg, Germany.  Michael is dual citizen (US&EU) and multi-lingual. He is member of (ISC)², ISACA, ISSA, and InfraGard (FBI).

Brian Piel leads platform strategy and innovation within the Identity Solutions organization at Mastercard. In this role, Brian and his team are responsible for the creation of safe, simple and smart authentication and digital identity solutions for Mastercard products, customers and cardholders globally, while ensuring the highest level of interoperability through industry standardization. Mr. Piel has over 17 years of experience in several industries including payments, technology services, and travel and tourism, and has held many roles within product innovation, solution architecture and technology delivery.

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 Senior Director of Security Services at Marketing Platform Planning Department, NTT DOCOMO, INC. Mr. Moriyama is responsible for all security services for DOCOMO subscribers. Also, he is responsible for DOCOMO’s ID Platform, d ACCOUNT, and its authentication. He was previously responsible for driving innovations of devices, products and platform software in mobile past about 9 years, and deployed d ACCOUNT Passwordless Authentication utilizing FIDO standards. 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 he was at Sony Corporation.

Benoit Grangé serves as Vice President and CTO of OneSpan, where he sets the vision and leads execution of the global product strategy, manages product development and R&D strategies and processes, and advises the company on strategic alliance partnerships and M&A activities. Mr. Grangé has been with OneSpan since 1999, and prior to his current role, has held positions of Director of Software Development and R&D Manager for OneSpan. In these roles, he has driven the development of new solutions to address new market needs; developed key OEM partnerships; structured and led R&D teams; defined, established and supervised global and local strategies for product design and development; and established and managed OneSpan’s international R&D centers across EMEA and APAC. Prior to OneSpan, Mr. Grangé was a lead engineer at DMIC, where he was responsible for designing, specifying and developing new software products in authentication, including Secret Key Exchange tools and OTP-based Single Sign On. Mr. Grangé’s extensive technical and product management skills cover the entire software life cycle, and software skills include Secret and Public Key Infrastructure, TCP/IP socket programming, EMV-CAP, Hardware Security Modules. Mr. Grangé holds a Master’s Degree in Mathematics from University of Bordeaux.

Kevin has over 20 years of product and entrepreneurial experience in digital data security, privacy and identity, having led the product lifecycle from initial strategy to execution to scale for dozens of products across multiple industries.

Kevin currently serves as Onfido’s Chief Product Officer at Onfido since 2017,  where he is responsible for the strategic evolution of their product platform and leads product management and design. He is an industry thought leader and speaker in the field of digital identity.

Previously, Kevin served as SVP of Product at data privacy management company TrustArc for over 8 years, where he designed and built the first data privacy management technology platform as the company pivoted from a non-profit to the first privately-funded technology company in this category. 

Before TrustArc, Kevin led product management for VeriSign’s SSL and Authentication businesses, which were category leaders in their markets and were eventually sold for over $1.5B.

Kevin has founded, advised and served on boards of several early stage companies through their full lifecycle including one acquisition.

Kevin has a Masters in Management from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, where he is a Sloan Fellow. He holds a Bachelors of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he also served as a lab administrator and was active in the earliest WWW systems deployed at the University.

Dr. Le Van Gong is Senior Crypto Architect at PayPal where he helps define PayPal’s long term security strategy. He is also leading R&D projects that focus on leveraging the latest advancements in cryptography to further secure online transactions. Prior to PayPal, Dr. Le Van Gong has held various positions at Sun Microsystems, Neustar as well as Sony Electronics. He received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Paris, France.

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.

Ms. Rosa (Seungmi) Choi currently serves as the Marketing Director at RaonSecure in South Korea. She is responsible for marketing and public relations for DID platform ‘OmniOne’ and the company’s next-gen identification and authentication platforms. She has over 15 years’ experience in the IT industry, including the field of digital identity. She previously worked at LG Electronics and ESTsecurity.

Salah Machani is Director of Technology at RSA. His is responsible for RSA’s Identity and mobile products strategy and engineering. Mr. Machani has more than 20 years of experience in mobile technology, information security, and identity & access management. Prior to joining RSA, Mr. Machani held executive and senior R&D positions at Diversinet and Schlumberger/Sema Group Telecoms. He has contributed to the development of industry-leading open standards in several organizations, including IETF, OATH, OMA/WAP Forum, SMS Forum, CDG and FIDO Alliance. Mr. Machani holds a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science, a Master Degree in Computer Engineering and (ISC)2 CISSP/ISSAP certifications.

Daniel Ahn has been the Head of Security Team at Mobile Communication Business, Samsung Electronics and responsible for the rigorous risk assessment, security governance and innovative solution of its device, software and services.  He is currently leading the Mobile Platform Center at Samsung Electronics.

Willy Wei is responsible for business strategy and development of the fingerprint solution at Synaptics for PC and broad market applications. Willy has worked for Synaptics for 8 years, involved in customer marketing and engagement lead across various verticals. Prior to Synaptics, he spent most of his career in the personal computer industry, specializing in product and market research, and go-to-market strategy and execution across consumer and commercial segments.

Alain Martin is in charge of consulting services for payment systems and also represents Thales with the FIDO Alliance and the Smart Payment Association. Prior to this, he was in charge of strategic partnerships, liaising in particular with Visa and Mastercard. He was responsible for the portfolio of mobile financial services products, addressing the mobile payment needs of banks, mobile operators and transport operators. He was for eight years regional managing director for Gemalto’s POS terminal division in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. Overall, Mr. Martin has 30 years of experience in the payment industry, 4 of which were spent in the USA, primarily on the introduction of smart cards for electronic purse programs. He holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Institut National des Sciences Appliquées in Lyon, France.

Eldan Ben-Haim is CTO for Transmit Security.  Prior to joining Transmit Security as CTO, Eldan held the position of vice president of R&D and operations at Trusteer, a company acquired by IBM. In this role, he managed the development and day-to-day operation of the company’s SaaS-based security offering for online banking fraud prevention and enterprise advanced thread protection. Eldan holds an M.Sc in Computer Science from the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzeliya.

Stephen Oh is the founder and CEO of eWBM, a fabless semiconductor company specialized in secure MCU (Microprocessor). eWBM’s secure MS500 is used for a variety of IoT and security applications including FIDO2 external authenticator, LoRa module, and Industrial IoT devices. Before founding his own company in 2009, he was a vice president of Samsung Electronics, SLSI Business Unit, where his responsibility is AP (Application Processor) development and business. He was also involved with Gigabit Ethernet Standard (IEEE802.3ab) and ADSL standard (T1.413) while he was with National Semiconductor and Texas Instruments. He received his PhD/MSEE/BSEE from Purdue University.

Bill Wright is Technical Fellow/Executive Director, IT Architecture, where his responsibilities include technical oversight for Identity and Access Management (IAM), security governance, and PCI compliance.  As a Fellow, Bill establishes the enterprise-wide technical strategy for IAM for workforce, members, and third parties.  Bill graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio with a degree in Math, Computer Science, and Systems Design.

David Henstock is a member of the Data, Security and Identity global product team and is responsible for Identity and Authentication products including Digital Identity and Visa Advanced ID Solutions.  Henstock held a number of roles on the Visa Business Solutions team, most recently leading M&A and strategic investments.  During his tenure running the B2B product team, he developed B2B Connect, Visa’s latest innovation for high-value, cross-border business payments.  

Henstock has 20+ years of experience in strategy, product management and development spanning banking, technology and startups.  Prior to joining Visa, he worked at JPMorgan & Co. in Treasury and Securities Services and was the Chief Architect at flutter.com where he created the first-to-market P2P digital betting exchange. 

Henstock holds a Bachelor of Science in industrial engineering and operations research from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master of Business Administration from Fordham University in New York City.

Brad Doctor is an innovative security professional with over 20 years of experience. As the Sr. Director of Security Architecture and Engineering 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.

Liz Votaw leads Authentication Strategy for Wells Fargo for consumer-facing businesses, including mobile and online banking. Liz joined Wells Fargo after a 30 year career at Bank of America where she held multiple leadership positions in Innovation, Risk and Authentication. She has served on the FIDO board of directors since 2014.

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.

At Yubico, John Fontana focuses on the evolution of authentication and cultivating awareness around emerging standards-based authentication options that present security and privacy enhancements for both enterprises and individuals. In addition, he uses his media and social media expertise to spread understanding of identity and strong authentication and how they improve online security. He uses all he’s learned to tell stories about great technology, to build relationships and to earn trust. His goal is to make businesses and organizations smarter about technology’s benefits with the belief that smart people will encourage smart products. Mr. Fontana spent the first 12 years of his career in the newspaper business only to discover the Internet in the early 90s, where he realized that newspapers had become “yesterday’s news on your doorstep today.” He spent the next 15 years reporting/writing/publishing in print and online for tech publications, where he focused on enterprise topics including collaboration, directories, network infrastructure, databases, open source, ERP and security. He covered IBM, Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Red Hat, Google, and countless startups – many of which exploded when the first tech bubble burst. His work has appeared in the New York Times, CNN, CIO, Mashable, and the Huffington Post. He continues to pen the Identity Matters blog on ZDNet. In the summer, you’ll find him climbing mountains on his bicycle. In the winter, you’ll find him skimo racing in the high mountains of Colorado or adventure racing up and down a frozen stratovolcano in northwest New Mexico.