David Mahdi

Former Gartner Research VP and identity, cryptography and cybersecurity visionary, David Mahdi is an industry recognized pioneer. Co-Founder of the emerging Machine Identity Management market. David has helped large organizations tackle digital transformation projects that included digital identity, IoT security, and early stage blockchain efforts; guided organizations to build internal cryptography teams, such as the cryptography center of excellence; and consulted through IPOs, raising capital, and M&A, among many other contributions. As a market maker, David was instrumental in creating markets and definitions for areas such as, decentralized identity, bring your own identity (BYOI), passwordless authentication, machine identity management, and privacy enhanced computation.