Board of Directors

ForgeRock

Allan Foster, Kantara Initiative President
ForgeRock Vice President Community – Allan is currently VP Community at ForgeRock Inc.As one of the founders of ForgeRock, he has helped build ForgeRock into a multinational Identity Management software vendor with offices on four continents. Having served in multiple positions during its startup, Allan is now responsible for leading the worldwide ForgeRock community. This includes the contributing developer community, as well as the representation of ForgeRock on multiple standards committees.

In the twenty years prior to ForgeRock, Allan founded and ran a successful small consulting business focusing on the Identity Management space, with clients all over the world. With a small and dedicated staff, Guru Associates built a reputation for delivering projects on time, and under budget. Allan currently serves on the Board of Directors of the IEEE-ISTO, Allan is a sought after speaker at international technical conferences where he has spoken on various technical topics.

Internet Society (ISOC)

Robin Wilton, Kantara Initiative Treasurer
Technical Outreach Director for Identity and Privacy, on the Internet Society’s Trust and Identity team. He is a specialist in digital identity, IT security and public policy, with almost 30 years experience in systems engineering, consulting and industry analyst roles. Robin was at IBM for 12 years, joined Internet start-up JCP Trustbase in 1997, and spent 8 years at Sun Microsystems following its acquisition of JCP. After leaving Sun, Robin set up and ran an independent consultancy, then joined Gartner Group as an analyst on privacy, PKI and federated identity. In 2012 he joined the Internet Society.

Robin has a reputation for translating complex topics between technologists, business-people and policy-makers.  His particular interest is in how social constructs such as identity, privacy and trust are mediated through technology. His technical outreach activity includes work with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), IT vendors and higher education consortia. He also contributes to policy work through bodies such as the Council of Europe and the OECD, where he is a member of the Internet Technical Advisory Committee (ITAC) and a regular contributor to the proceedings of the Working Party on Security and Privacy in the Digital Economy.

Experian

Ken Crowl, Kantara Initiative Director
Solutions Consultant, Decision Analytics – Ken is a senior consultant within the Decision Analytics – Fraud & Identity Management Group, where he is responsible for standing up identity proofing solutions for Experian’s clients, providing guidance around NIST certification and other regulatory requirements while providing input to the organization’s overall product strategy for identity proofing within the public sector.
Ken has spent more than 30 years in the IT industry performing such roles as programmer, pre/post-sales support and sales solutions consultant among others with organizations such as IBM and Lockheed Martin and Experian. He has spent the last 4 years specifically dealing with Identity and Fraud solutions focusing on the government and healthcare sectors.

CA Technologies

Lina Liberti, Kantara Initiative Director
Vice President, Security Business Strategy – Lina Liberti has spent over 20 years in the security industry focusing on security strategy, product management and strategic product marketing for various IT security vendors. With a focus on the company’s identity and access management portfolio, Lina works closely with the team and CA’s customers to help ensure CA’s solutions support customer needs.

Prior to joining CA Technologies, Lina was product line manager for emerging technologies at RSA, where she oversaw product management and product marketing for RSA’s single sign-on, smart card, and public key infrastructure (PKI) technologies. Before RSA, Lina managed product management and product marketing at Memco before it was acquired by Platinum.

She has spoken at several leading security industry conferences, was a board member of CoreBlox and is a member of the Founder’s Circle for the RSA Conference.

digi.me

Julian Ranger, Kantara Initiative Director
Chairman and Founder of Digi.me – Julian founded his first business STASYS, specialising in the military internet, in 1987 and grew it to a major multi-national business before selling to Lockheed Martin in 2005. Julian is an angel investor (e.g. Hailo, DataSift, Astrobotic) and is the founder of digi.me, which is re-imagining the personal Internet.

Nomura Research Institute (NRI)

Nat Sakimura, Kantara Initiative Director
Research Lead Digital Identity – Nat Sakimura is the research lead on Digital Identity at Nomura Research Institute (NRI). Bringing Power to control his identity in the Cyber Space back to the People is what he aims at. He was a co-outher of OpenID Provider Authentication Policy Extension (PAPE) specification, the OpenID Connect Core and Artifact Binding specification, JSON Web Token (JWT) specification, XRD specification, and the co-chair of the OASIS Open Reputation Management Systems TC. He has been the elected member of the OpenID Foundation board since 2008 as well as the founding board member of the Kantara Initiative. He has served in various Japanese government committees and is currently a member of the (Identity) Information Coordination Platform Technical Working Group in the Cabinet Secretariat which deals with the forthcoming Citizen Identity system. Nat holds a M.SA degree in Economics from University of Western Ontario, and a B.A. in Economics from Hitotsubashi University, Japan. His interests include digital identity, privacy, distributed systems, music, and poetry.