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David Mahdi is the Chief Identity Officer at Transmit Security and a former Vice President and highly sought-after Analyst at Gartner. Recognized as a visionary in identity, cryptography, and cybersecurity, David played a pivotal role in shaping markets and defining key concepts in areas like decentralized identity, Bring Your Own Identity (BYOI), passwordless authentication, machine identity management, and privacy-enhanced computation. As an executive leader, David holds several advisory and board positions for non-profits and established technology providers in the areas of digital and decentralized identity, post-quantum cryptography, cybersecurity awareness and blockchain/NFTs.