Prof. Dr. Dawn Jutla

Dr. Dawn Jutla is Chief Executive Officer of Peer Ledger, a Blockchain company targeting primarily Pharma, Healthcare, Precious Metals and Industrial Minerals, and other highly-regulated sectors. Her other hat is as the Scotiabank Professor of Technology Entrepreneurship & Innovation program at Saint Mary’s University. Dawn received her Master and PhD degrees in Computer Science on the topics of distributed systems and access control protocols from the Technical University of Nova Scotia. She has expertise in designing blockchain applications, privacy and security, and business and technology strategy and management. Her company has implemented a Blockchain Identity Translation (BIT) platform and SDKs for system administrators and developers to manage user identities, strong multi-factor authentication, unification, delegation, consent directives, and portable identities to increase corporate trust on Blockchains. Dawn currently sits on the Board of Directors at the OASIS Open international standards organization, and on the Board of the IWK Health Centre.