Emma Lindley

Director, Innovate Identity

Emma has been instrumental in the development of the UK digital identity market since 2003, initially working for GBG plc as part of the team that developed and took to market ID3 (then called URU) and latterly leading the development of the ID3 service globally.

In 2012, she founded Innovate Identity an independent consulting firm. She now acts as an advisor to many global brands, enabling identity as part of their digital transformation strategies. She also holds several board level advisory roles including Open Identity Exchange.

Emma is recognised in the Innovate Finance Powerlist for Women in Fintech 2016, Know Identity Top 100 Leaders in Identity 2017 and was voted CEO of the Year at the One World Identity Awards.

She studied identity, security and privacy at Harvard, has an MBA from Manchester Business School and completed her thesis on competitive strategy in the identity market place.