David is a Managing Director at EY LLP with 20 years of Cyber and Digital Identity experience. David leads the West Region for EY’s Digital Identity practice. As part of his innovations role, David also leads the De-centralized Identity offering. During the early days of verifiable credentials and DID, David led a team to build from ground up a “portable identity” platform for a consortium of large health payors and providers. More recently, given the traction in the market with DID with Technology players, David has served as an SMR and led a team to deploy VCs for citizen identity use cases. David is a frequent speaker on identity management topics, including: “Identity Standards: What's Up, What's New, What's Next” – joint presentation with Microsoft on decentralized ID and zero trust - Identiverse 2020 "Can blockchain enable Identity and Access Management?” – RSA Conference 2018, San Francisco, CA