Directors

Emma Lindley is an independent consultant, industry, and board advisor in the digital identity industry.

She is co-founder of Women in Identity,  board advisor for SurfShark a global privacy-protecting VPN company and on the editorial board of Good ID.

Over a career of 18 years in identity Emma has held various roles, Head of Identity and Risk at Visa, board roles at Confyrm, Innovate Identity and The Open Identity Exchange. She has been recognised in the InnFin Powerlist for Women, KNOW Identity Top 100 leaders in Identity, Women in Tech Awards, Most Influential Women In Tech, and was voted CEO of the year at the KNOW Identity Awards. She has an MBA from Manchester Business School and completed her thesis in Competitive Strategy in the Identity Market.

Melissa Carvalho, RBC Global Cyber Security Vice President, leads the bank’s Global Identity and Access Management group, providing cyber solutions and services for RBC’s 86,000 employees and 17 million clients.

Melissa graduated from Queen’s University with both a B.ScH and a B.Ed. She is a results-driven professional recognized for successfully delivering critical, high-risk initiatives for large organizations. She is known as an adept and innovative leader with 20 years’ experience in managing all aspects of information technology, including business needs impact assessments, software development and infrastructure implementations. Melissa consistently leads and motivates individuals to maximize productivity while managing relationships with diverse stakeholder groups.

Throughout her career, Melissa has developed and implemented identity strategies to promote organizational growth and improve operational efficiency, including implementing Identity Programs at Canada’s five major banks and consulting on over 50 IAM programs across North America.

Christine Bassarab, PhD, is an organizational psychologist and consultant based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has over twenty years’ experience designing and implementing strategies that enable boards and organizations to successfully navigate complex change while remaining vigilant to meeting the needs of their stakeholders. Her expertise includes strategic planning, executive leadership assessment and development, board governance, organization assessment and design, and mergers & acquisition strategy. Christine worked most recently in fintech and financial services where she held several leadership roles transforming businesses to improve organizational performance.

Previously, she worked with David Nygren at Mercer Consulting in the Board and Leadership Effectiveness Practice where she worked with a cross-section of clients in the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors.

Kimberly Sutherland, Vice President of Fraud and Identity Strategy at LexisNexis® Risk Solutions, leads the North American commercial market for consumer fraud analytics, identity verification, authentication and fraud investigations. Her oversight also includes the ThreatMetrix, Emailage, ID Analytics and BehavioSec fraud and identity product lines.

Kim joined LexisNexis Risk Solutions in 2006 and has over 20 years of experience leading business strategy, product management, and professional services.

Kim serves as a board member of Women in Identity an participates in the Better Identity Coalition and the Open Identity Exchange (OIX). She is the past Plenary Chair of the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group (IDESG) and advisory board member of the University of Texas – Center for Identity. Kim is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and Otterbein University.

Louise is currently the research lead for the non-profit organisation, Women in Identity, where she is currently driving the organisation’s flagship research project to build a Global ID Code of Conduct that will drive inclusion in digital identity systems. Louise is also the Deputy Director for Data, Insight & Fraud at the Government Digital Service, where she is helping to deliver the cross-government digital identity solution, GOV.UK One Login.

Louise has previously worked in highly analytical roles across both public and private sector. She co-founded the Corporate Innovation Forum in 2017, and is passionate about utilising data and technology to drive fairer outcomes for consumers, as well as helping businesses make better and more informed decisions.

Louise is also an advocate for the promotion of STEM education and careers to young people, and volunteers with a number of charities focused on increasing participation of under-represented groups in STEM subjects and professions. Her background is in chemistry, and she completed her PhD in materials science at the University of Manchester in 2013.

Laura Barrowcliff is the Global Head of GBG Trust at GBG, the global leader in identity and location. Laura leads GBG Trust, the global identity network, which combines over 100 million data attributes contributed by a consortium of over 550 businesses covering 24 sectors in over 80 countries, whilst ensuring complete data privacy. 

Charlotte has worked in financial services for over 12 years, in roles from cyber audit to retail banking strategy for over 14 million customers, leading innovation projects as well as strategic partnerships. Her background in technology but also economics, and international finance puts her in a strong position to understand the technical detail but understand the high-level strategic opportunities and challenges which an organisation and its customers face now. Charlotte now has a strong focus on growth within Series A & B companies, as well as early stage ( seed and angel ) investment specifically in female led businesses.

Her work in Identity, started 7 years ago, while auditing the bank IAM programme, then moved to setting up proof-of-concept projects for retail banking customers proving out how open banking can be a good source for identity verification externally. Following this, worked on collaborative industry opportunities, and assessing opportunities for investment within the identity market.

Charlotte has also worked across other emerging technologies like voice, personal data stores, crypto, blockchain, and sees the opportunity for identity to be part of all of these to ensure a safer, but also a more inclusive world.

A keen advocate for STEM for women and part of the team setting up and running coding clubs within and outside the bank in both London & Edinburgh.

Charlotte previously served on the Open Identity Exchange board, navigating the emerging UK identity market.