About the author
I'm a risk and data management executive and entrepreneur. After 5 years of engineering sales and completing an MBA in finance, I found myself in a cool risk management technology company in Toronto called Algorithmics (now IBM Risk Analytics). In five years the company grew revenues by a factor of 50, I had relocated to London and gained a strong appreciation for data. The best analytics in the world cannot navigate around incorrect or unavailable data.
I launched a company called Avox in 2002 to focus on improving the quality of client and counterparty data used by financial institutions for regulatory compliance and risk management. The DTCC (Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation) acquired the company in 2010. I spent the next few years working with them to help drive what is now the GLEIS (Global Legal Entity Identifier System), a federation of organizations converging on a single global standard for company identification.
Most recently, I've established Warp Global Inc. (one must be warped after all to engage in yet another startup) as a services and technology company with a broad view of helping to drive "data ecosystem innovation". Specifically, WGI is focusing on tokenized digital identity management and working with a multitude of stakeholders with a view to helping firms converge on global standards for identity.
