Drummond Reed

Drummond Reed is a Trustee of the Sovrin Foundation, where he also serves as Secretary and Chair of the Trust Framework Working Group. He became Chief Trust Officer of Evernym after Evernym’s acquisition of Respect Network, where he was CEO, co-founder, and co-author of the Respect Trust Framework, whose use in the Connect.Me socially-verified reputation service was honored with the Privacy Award at the 2011 European Identity Conference. Drummond has served as co-chair of the OASIS XDI TechnicalCommittee since 2004. Prior to starting Respect Network, Drummond was Executive Director of two industry foundations: the Information Card Foundation and the Open Identity Exchange. He has also served as a founding board member of the OpenID Foundation, ISTPA, XDI.org, and Identity Commons. In 2002 he was a recipient of the Digital Identity Pioneer Award from Digital ID World, and in 2013 he was honored as an OASIS Distinguished Contributor.