PEAK IDV EXECUTIVE SERIES

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.peakidv.com as well as read the transcript and access links discussed during the conversation.

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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 subscribed to the EXECUTIVE SERIES. Thank you. And we're just getting started.

I'm on a mission to enable 10,000 people to become experts in digital identity.

You might have thought that I fell off, but I've actually been in a lab with a pen and a pad getting ready to bring you more topics, more conversations, and higher production value on the EXECUTIVE SERIES.

I'm uploading every full video to YouTube and I'll be producing more short clips and sound bites for easy sharing and consumption.

They say not all superheroes wear capes. Well, in Season 2, the guests are true crime fighters, combating the evils of the world and keeping our online digital identities safe.

They’re building solutions and identity verification, biometrics, reusable identity, liveness detection, device security, fraud prevention, privacy, and more.

Season 2 drops soon.

Be sure to subscribe on your favorite podcast platform on YouTube, on LinkedIn, or go to executiveseries.peakidv.com.

See you soon.

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 of the organization.

Thank you for listening. For the best experience, watch the full video at executiveseries.peakidv.com as well as access the transcript and links discussed during the conversation.

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 verification.

Thank you for listening. For the best experience, watch the full video at executiveseries.peakidv.com as well as access the transcript and links discussed during the conversation.

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 role a platform like Dock’s has in identity verification.

Thank you for listening. For the best experience, watch the full video at executiveseries.peakidv.com as well as access the transcript and links discussed during the conversation.

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 video at executiveseries.peakidv.com as well as access the transcript and links discussed during the conversation.

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 2023 and beyond.

For the best experience, watch the full video at executiveseries.peakidv.com as well as access the transcript and links to resources discussed during the conversation.

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 EXECUTIVE SERIES, our industry newsletter and video podcast highlighting digital identity innovators, entrepreneurs, change makers, C-suite leaders, and other top executives in digital identity. With EXECUTIVE SERIES, we're producing a video first podcast, meaning every episode will be recorded with lights and cameras on.

By watching and listening, you'll gain unique insight into the latest advancements from the people making it happen. You'll also get to know personally the pioneers behind the press releases, what makes them tick, what drives them to do what they do.

2022 was a rough year for digital identity.

Yet identity verification is more important than ever in today's digital age. With the rise of online transactions, the increasing threat of sophisticated fraud and new attacks from generative media, it's crucial that we find ways to work together and win the fight against forces with bad intentions. A person's identity is their most important asset.

If people cannot safely and securely assert their identity. They are unlikely to unlock the benefits of our modern society. Credit invisible and underbanked individuals are a growing segment of our population, and we as leaders have a duty to ensure they have equal opportunities and access to financial services, to education, to jobs. To healthcare, to trust and safety to overall improvements in the quality of life that technology affords us all. It all starts with identity.

In executive series, I dive into the latest developments in identity, including doc-centric, data-centric and device-centric identity verification techniques. But I'll also explore authentication, biometrics, decentralized identity, web3 and blockchain, privacy regulations, artificial intelligence including computer vision, as well as CIP, KYC, KYB, AML, and many more of your favorite three letter acronyms.

But this series is not just providers and vendors. I speak with practitioners to gain a better understanding of their challenges and how they think about digital identity systems and how they implement them. If you care about digital identity, don't miss the PEAK IDV EXECUTIVE SERIES. Be sure to like, subscribe, follow, share, post, react, repost, but most of all, buckle up for the journey.

In the first 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 will share 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 2023 and beyond.

I look forward to seeing you in the PEAK IDV EXECUTIVE SERIES. Until next time.