Amit Sharma

Founder & CEO I Digital Identity Leader I Web3 & Decentralized Technologies I Government and Financial Services Regulator I Financial Market Infrastructure Innovation I Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Expert I Inclusion Strategist
Over the past 25 years, Amit Sharma has held a wide range of cross-sectional roles touching financial markets, government service, international finance and banking, risk and regulatory compliance, emerging technologies, international development, and national security.
Mr. Sharma has worked at senior levels in both the private and public sectors, and in both large global institutions to emerging companies/startups, such as Mitsubishi UFJ Securities, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Risk Assistance Network and Exchange (RANE), Command Global Services, StoneCastle/INDX, and FinClusive, a startup he founded to modernize regulatory and identity technology applications in financial, workforce and other highly regulated sectors. In these roles, Mr. Sharma has both founded and built emerging technology and advisory services businesses that intersect with and engage commercial, banking/payments, regulatory/government, and web-native technology partners and customers. He currently serves as the Head of Global and Digital Strategy and Ecosystem Growth for IDEMIA Public Security.
As such, Mr. Sharma understands the intersection of new technology and product innovation in software and web-native services, as well as the impacts and challenges related to evolving regulatory environments across different countries through his work with U.S. and global policy makers, regulators and international standards bodies.
In addition, Mr. Sharma serves on a number of working groups, advisory councils and boards. He is frequently asked to speak at identity, finance/banking, emerging technology, and national security conferences, and has testified numerous times before U.S. Congress and to U.S. federal and international financial services regulators.
Mr. Sharma serves in board member, advisor or expert in several organizations including, the Kantara Initiative, the Center for Economic and Financial Power (CEFP), the Digital Dollar Project, the Diplomatic Courier’s Expert Network, and is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Amit has taught regularly on issues related to digital identity, international security policy, advanced web/internet infrastructure, counter-illicit finance, risk/regulatory compliance, and social venture development; he has held adjunct or similar roles at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MIIS), Georgetown University, and Yale University, and has guest lectured at a number of other universities in the U.S. and abroad. Mr. Sharma holds an MBA (international finance/strategy) and MA (sustainable development/environmental policy) from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and a BA from the University of Virginia. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in Mongolia, and makes Guilford, Vermont his home where he enjoys farming and making hard cider.