Don is the Executive Director of the OpenID Foundation, a non-profit, international standards development organization of individuals and companies committed to enabling, promoting and protecting open source identity technologies. The Foundation’s membership includes leaders from across the globe, industry sectors and governments that collaborate on the development, adoption and deployment of open identity standards. Formed in June 2007, the Foundation serves as a public trust organization representing an international community of developers, platform providers, and governments providing needed infrastructure and leadership in promoting and supporting expanded adoption of OpenID Connect, the Financial Grade API and other standards.

Jim Lound has been involved in the identity business for over 20 yrs. He was at the sharp end of designing, developing and implementing the Experian identity provider platform as part of the GOV.UK Verify service and extending this into the Experian direct to consumer business.

In 2019, when representing Condatis - a Sitekit Company, Jim was responsible for delivering the Digital Identity Scotland Pilot.

Jim is an advocate of customer choice, inclusion, control and experience in respect of the use of federated digital identities & currently is a non-executive director of tScheme.

Frank is liked and respected in the digital technology space and is perhaps best known to OIX members as director at Mvine, the hub service provider and metadata attribute exchange platform. In fact his expertise in digital business goes back to 1995 when he co-founded one of the first online B2B portals, Martex Communicators which operated 26 separate business communities by the time he sold to it Tarsus Group in 2000. His investments include a stake in Ovum plc, which achieved a successful AIM listing before being sold to Datamonitor in 2006. He led ChangeBASE to its successful acquisition by Quest Software in 2011. Frank has been a director of numerous start-ups, including Knowledge Peers. He holds a BSc in Physics from the University of Bath and is a Liveryman of the City of London.

Director of Identity Standards at Microsoft

Martin has led transformations in multiple banks and created new market categories for technology companies. He has guided the creation of products that have defined the markets they created in Content Security, User Virtualisation and Image Manipulation.

This has given him a deep understanding of what it takes to take something new and get it adopted into large and complex organisations.

Martin brings skills from both large financials and technology vendors to the work of OIX. He has stated that he intends to help OIX make the next step to becoming the acknowledged standard by which Digital Identity is delivered.

Mark focuses on the development and clarification of operational strategy in complex integrating markets (telecoms/Internet). Primary interest in data monetisation, cybersecurity, and helping telecoms 'make money and grow subscribers'. A media friendly spokesman, he has appeared in the press, on television & moderating panels, discussing data privacy, the internet and all things digital.

Glenn is a globally recognised thought leader in the travel, aviation and technology sectors. He is plugged into emerging digital, social and innovation trends.
If it is new, cutting edge and transformational, Glenn can tell you how to exploit it in your business.

As an experienced business executive, Glenn has worked at the crossroads of technology and business across a range of industries, including telecommunications, utilities, oil and gas, government, and airlines. Glenn is currently Head of Digital Business Transformation in International Airlines Group, the parent company of British Airways, Iberia, Vueling and Aer Lingus. He was awarded a professional fellowship from the Chartered Institute for IT (FBCS), and has been re-elected in 2015 as Chairman of IATA Simplifying the Business.

Oliver is the Global CISO for Barclays, responsible for establishing and maintaining the enterprise vision, strategy, and program to ensure information assets and technologies are adequately protected across Barclays Group.  Oli joined Barclays at the start of 2017 from BT where he finished as the Chief Technology Officer for BT Security, having done a number of roles in security including establishing BT’s global cyber consulting practice and working solely with UK defense and intelligence sector on the protection of critical national infrastructure. Earlier in his career, Oliver gained a broad base of technical  expertise across software architecture, high-speed packet processing, systems engineering, service provider networking, security architecture, network forensics, malware analysis, Big Data platforms and Data Science.

Nick has an expert knowledge of the Identity industry: its’ challenges, requirements and solutions spanning a variety of different sectors (e.g. government, finance, age related); and using different ID techniques from D2C2B Digtial ID to B2B ID Services.

He has over 30 years’ experience in strategic innovation and is renowned for finding practical ways to drive real change by bringing new ideas and products to market.

Nick was previously Director of ID and Fraud solutions at Experian where he was responsible for the strategic development of Experian’s fraud and identity solutions for both the public and private sectors. Prior to that Nick was a director of a company providing global solutions within the broader Criminal Justice arena and he has also worked for IBM in the healthcare and utilities sector. He has a degree in Computer Science.

Richard graduated as an electrical and electronic engineer and started his career in BBC Radio Engineering. Following on he moved into telecommunications as systems engineer for BT in Global Sales and then into SmartTrust to develop new content services for mobile devices. In 2003, after leaving SmartTrust, he launched the Oz Clarke Mobile Wine Guide in conjunction with his publisher on several mobile networks. 

In 2005 he joined Morpho, now Idemia, to run their applications and solution business. When Idemia became a GOV.UK identity provider he moved to a business development role to promote their IDP and biometric identity services in the UK market. He is a keen sailor, photographer and classic car enthusiast.

A sales professional experienced in all aspects of Account Management & Business Development, within Identity Management, Credit Risk, Fraud Avoidance, Authentication and Application Processing, across financial services, retail and mail order sectors.

Having worked across multiple lines of business and geographies, forming, developing and leading teams, ensuring stakeholder objectives are aligned across clients, partners and internally whilst engaging across the business from function to delivery of solution.

Communications & events specialist with over 25 years experience.

Highly experienced communications professional with over 20 years of experience in developing and delivering strong strategic communications programmes. I have worked directly with leadership teams, managing expectations and securing support, while mapping out communications strategies aligned to commercial objectives.