Lefteris Leontaridis

Technical Coordinator of the GINI-SA project, on behalf of IKED. GINI-SA is a Support Action for the European Commission which aims to analyse how a Personalized Identity Management (PIM) ecosystem in which individuals can manage their own digital identities and control the exchange of their identity information. Other experience with international identity management projects includes work on eSignatures interoperability across Europe through the establishment of the eSignature validation infrastrructure within the PEPPOL project, funded by the CIP-PSP programme by the EC. As CEO of NetSmart he has maintained channel partner relationships with Sun Microsystems (and Oracle thereafter) on identity management products, and was responsible for reselling, professional services, frontline customer support and training of end users.