George is a 20-year veteran of the payments industry. With 30 years in IT-based entrepreneurship and product management, he has expertise in payments strategy and market development.

His interests range across business and technology areas including mobile and point of sale payments acceptance, online and offline data security, and data verification.

Before joining Lockstep, George was partner at payments industry consultancy Glenbrook Partners, innovation practice lead at Mercator, and led telecommunications research at Aberdeen Group. He co-founded payment identity firm Payment Pathways and a regional internet service provider.

George founded and produced Payments on Fire®, the top-rated payments industry podcast. He is the producer of Making Data Better.

Steve is a researcher, innovator, and analyst in data protection. He has been a lead digital identity adviser to the governments of Australia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Macau, New Zealand, and Singapore, and has been awarded 10 patents.

In 2018, he was described as “one of the most original thinkers in digital identity in the world today”.

Starting in PKI in 1995, Steve saw the potential for this technology in digital credentials. In 2004, he was awarded his first patent for anonymously verifiable attributes.

In 2011, he discovered an ecological explanation for the diversity of digital identities as ensembles of attributes, which in turn convinced him that all digital identity boils down to data.

Steve is founder and principal of Lockstep.