Founder and CEO
Dentity
• www.linkedin.com/company/dentityme
Jan 2021 - Present
Santa Monica, CA
Chairman and DIF Ambassador
Decentralized Identity Foundation
• www.linkedin.com/company/decentralized-identity-foundation
Jan 2024 - Present
San Francisco, California
Henry Crown Fellow
The Aspen Institute
• www.linkedin.com/company/the-aspen-institute
Jan 2000 - Present
Aspen, Colorado

Founder and CEO · Dentity
I'm the founder and CEO of Dentity. We're a leading digital identity company that returns ownership and control of identity and personal data back to the consumer. Consumers use Dentity to help them solve issues in their daily lives. They may be dating online, buying or selling on a peer-to-peer marketplace, or using an app that places them adjacent to strangers outside their circle of trust. They need to easily verify people they interact or transact with online and prove things about themselves without oversharing personal information with people and websites they don’t know or trust. Businesses use Dentity to help them remove cost and friction from the process of building trust with their stakeholders. As Dentity reinforces its position of trust with the consumer and enterprises gain increasing confidence in our solution, network effects are taking hold. Dentity leverages open identity standards and protocols. We are laying critical Web3 identity infrastructure which will bring the next billion users onchain. Dentity was founded in 2021 and is based in Santa Monica, CA. Investors include Kleiner Perkins, AARP, and Blockchange Ventures.
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Santa Monica, California, United States
University of Southern California
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Political Science and Government
Jan 1991 - Dec 1993
University of Southern California
Master of Arts - MA, Political Science and Government
Jan 1989 - Dec 1991
University of Southern California
Bachelor of Arts - BA, International Relations and Affairs
Jan 1984 - Dec 1988
Stanford Law School
Directors College
Jan 2008 - Dec 2008
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