PEAK IDV EXECUTIVE SERIES

In this episode, I speak with Vic Maculaitis of i3strategies. Vic shares his career history as a 3x founder, 3x BSA/AML officer, and how his company i3strategies®️ is advising the world's largest financial institutions, investors, and corporations on how to fight financial crime. Vic and I also discuss what's next for compliance, fraud, aml, and the convergence known as FRAML. Thank you fo...

In this episode, I speak with Liam Chennells, Co-founder & CEO of Detected. Liam shares the origin story of Detected and how they’re reinventing the status quo of online business verification. He describes why business onboarding is broken and what companies can do to increase speed, lower costs, and reduce risk. Liam also describes how they’re using artificial intelligence and the specific re...

In this episode, I speak with Jennifer Arnold, Co-founder & CEO of Minerva. Jennifer shares the origin story of Minerva and how her time as a compliance leader influenced her decision to start the company. She also discusses the importance of context in anti-money laundering programs, the power of applied artificial intelligence in combating financial crime, and changing sentiment of regulator...

In this episode, I speak with Matthew Gibson, President, CEO, & Co-Founder of Syngrafii. Matthew discusses the evolution of eSignature, the importance of authenticity in digital transactions, and how his company is innovating in remote signing. He shares how his company is deploying identity verification in the Syngrafii iinked™ platform. Matthew also covers how biometric technologies can be l...

In this episode, I speak with Debbie Reynolds, also known as The Data Diva. Debbie discusses her career in emerging technology, the field of data privacy, and how her consultancy helps companies make important decisions on data collection and data retention. You'll also learn about data provenance, data lineage, and how to best deploy data practices at global scale. Thank you for listening. Fo...

I’m very pleased to present this special edition of the EXECUTIVE SERIES announcing Engage PSG Search as the season 2 sponsor! In this episode, I speak with Engage’s CEO, Kevin Cruickshank. Kevin has worked in the Reg Tech industry for over 30 years and leads a team of specialists in Executive Search, Go-To-Market, Sales, Marketing, and Product Search. Kevin shares the origin story of Engage PSG S...

In this episode, I speak with Co-founder & CEO of Mesh, Diego Asenjo. Diego shares Mesh's origin story and how his time as the product leader for Amazon Business Prime influenced his decision to start the business verification company. He also describes how the Mesh platform makes multi-factor business and license verifications easy, trusted, and portable. You'll also hear from Diego Mesh's unique...

In this episode, I speak with Co-founder & CEO of Vouched, John Baird. John shares the history behind Vouched and how they've built a customizable and flexible identity verification platform to support industries like telemedicine, automotive lending, financial services, and more. He discusses the inefficiencies healthcare providers face in proving patient identity. He also shares his experience w...

In this episode, I speak with Founder & CEO of Verisoul, Henry LeGard. Henry shares the founding story of Verisoul and the impact generative AI and large language models (LLMs) are having on online retailers. He discusses the ways e-commerce platforms faced with bot attacks can leverage Verisoul to level the playing field against sophisticated attacks. He also discusses how their 360 degree view o...

In this episode, I speak with serial entrepreneur, Founder & CEO of ThreatFabric, Cengiz Han Sahin. Han shares his experience leading cybersecurity initiatives in the largest banks in the world and how it influenced his decision to start ThreatFabric. He gives his perspective on fast, easy payments and how fraud quickly follows. You'll also learn how the top institutions in the world create “fraud...

In this episode, I speak with serial entrepreneur André Ferraz, Co-founder & CEO of Incognia. André shares his journey in co-founding the innovative location identity company and how combining exact tamper-resistant location and device intelligence prevents fraud. As a pioneer in zero-factor authentication, he discusses the difficulty of catching fraud outside of the US, and some of the attacks he...

In this episode, I speak with Frances Zelazny, Co-founder and CEO of Anonybit. Frances shares how Anonybit is innovating in the digital identity and biometrics space with device-independent and advanced cloud-based security technology. She explains the way decentralization helps protect data from hacking and phishing. She also discusses the recent rise in interest of passwordless multi-factor auth...

In this episode, I speak with Aaron Painter, CEO of Nametag. Aaron shares his professional journey leading to Nametag, the world's first human identity platform. He gives his perspective on fraud attacks and security threats impacting common contact center use cases and consumer experiences. In this episode, you'll also learn about Nametag's new AI-powered copilot for instant & secure identity ver...

In this episode, I speak with Andrew Bud CBE FREng FIET, Founder & CEO of iProov. Andrew discusses his journey in founding iProov, emerging cybersecurity threats from AI for bad, and the challenge of keeping one step ahead of fraudsters. He also shares his experience meeting Princess Anne when made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by the late Queen Elizabeth II.  Thank you for listen...

In this episode, I speak with Rod Boothby, Co-founder & CEO of IDPartner Systems. Rod talks about the importance of bringing trust back to the web. He shares his journey in co-founding IDPartner, raising a $3.1M seed round, and leveraging an ecosystem of financial institutions to establish trust in online transactions with reusable digital identities. Thank you for listening. For the best experien...

In the Season 2 premiere episode, I interview Blair Cohen, Founder, President, & Chief Evangelist at AuthenticID Blair shares his experience starting AuthenticID. He also shares the evolution of the identity verification industry, challenges with deep fake attacks, and thoughts on current market conditions. Thank you for listening. For the best experience, watch the full video at executiveseries.p...

Yes, it's me again. I'm back. PEAK IDV EXECUTIVE SERIES is returning with Season 2. In case you missed Season 1, I interviewed executives, entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and change makers in digital identity. I had the distinct pleasure of speaking with Mike Nelson, Chaitanya Sarda & Rushabh Shah, Nick Lambert, Donal Greene, and Jeremy Gottschalk. Over a thousand people have watched, listened, or...

In this episode, I interview Jeremy Gottschalk, Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Marketplace Risk. Jeremy shares the history of Marketplace Risk and how marketplaces and digital platforms have evolved over the last decade. We discuss the growing importance of identity verification and why this year’s Marketplace Risk Management Conference will be the biggest and best show since the beginning o...

In this episode, I interview Donal Greene, Founder & Chief Executive Officer of IDV startup Trustmatic. Donal shares his journey building a Slovakia-based startup in the digital identity industry after a rising career at Innovatrics. He introduces Trustmatic’s TrustHub and how his company is making businesses safer with remote identity verification, biometric identification, and selfie-based age v...

In this episode, I speak with Nick Lambert, Chief Executive Officer of Verifiable Credentials startup Dock (www.dock.io). Nick shares his experience becoming Dock’s CEO at the start of the pandemic, the progress Verifiable Credentials (VCs) has made in the past few years, and what the crypto winter means for decentralized application startups. We also discuss Dock’s products, use cases, and the ro...

In this episode, I speak with Chaitanya Sarda and Rushabh Shah, co-founders of YCombinator-backed identity verification orchestration startup AiPrise. Rushabh and Chaitanya discuss how they met, their founder journey, their experience applying and joining Y Combinator, getting their first customers, and their plans for the future. Thank you for listening. For the best experience, watch the full vi...

In this episode, I speak with identity industry veteran Mike Nelson. Mike was most recently Chief Revenue Officer at BehavioSec and is one of the founders of the Mitek Systems identity verification business. Mike shares his C-Suite perspective on the evolution and the future of identity, what it takes to build and lead a go-to-market team in this space, and how he sees the landscape changing in 20...

Hello, I'm Steve Craig, Chief Enablement Officer at PEAK IDV. I started PEAK IDV last summer with a mission to demystify identity verification technologies and help companies achieve peak performance in the digital identity industry. This past fall, I launched PEAK IDV ACADEMY to enable and empower businesses and teams to achieve their full potential. Now, I'm proud to announce the PEAK IDV EXECUT...