Moving Your Business Beyond Passwords

Pat is the founder, Executive Chairman and CEO of ValidSoft. He has over 25 years of experience in Information Technology and Financial Markets, where he has been an industry thought leader, and domain expert in security, strong authentication and voice biometrics. At ValidSoft, he leads our endeavors in commercializing the results of our extensive research and development. Prior to founding ValidSoft, Pat was the European Head of Electronic Trading Technology, co-head of the European Equities Technology and a technical advisor to the Investment Banking Division for Goldman Sachs. Pat has further extensive Financial Services & technical experience, having worked in senior roles with J.P Morgan, Credit Suisse Financial Products and Bankers Trust Company.

Alexander joined ValidSoft in 2010, when it was part of the NYSE-listed Pareteum Corporation (NYSE American: TEUM), for which he has served as Group General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer. He is now an executive Board member and General Counsel to ValidSoft. Prior to ValidSoft as General Counsel Alex practiced as an attorney at law firms Clifford Chance and Bird & Bird, specializing in intellectual property and general commercial law – predominantly for technology clients such as Google, Vodafone and Apple. Alex previously worked at WorldPay and Autonomy. Alexander has a wealth of experience in managing legal affairs, corporate restructuring, and debt- and equity-capital raising in the technology and software sectors. He advises the business on a wide range of legal, financial, commercial and public policy matters.

Simon has experience with building financial infrastructures for a variety of small, medium and large enterprises, specializing in startups. Prior to ValidSoft he was employed by BNY Mellon. Much of Simon’s experience has involved resolving integration issues to provide a solid platform from which a business can make the transformation to becoming an industry leader. At ValidSoft, Simon provides constant review and development of financial and administrative procedures which in turn enable management to focus on top level decision making. Simon adds a forensic touch to the finance function and plays a vital role in helping ValidSoft fulfill its potential.

Matt is an experienced technology leader, having deployed some of the world’s largest SaaS and technology platforms, including most recently for Travelopia (a KKR portfolio company). Matt is implementing ValidSoft’s Operation Excellence framework, to position the company for rapid-scalability.

Benoit leads Research and Development at ValidSoft, with a special focus on speech processing, machine learning, deep neural networks and artificial intelligence. He has been with ValidSoft since 2010 helping to establish the company as a leading provider of multi-factor authentication and voice biometrics solutions. Benoit oversees the development of the company’s core voice biometrics engine. His role includes managing the design, implementation and delivery of high-performance voice biometrics products, as well as managing strategic R&D collaborations with external partners, and developing the company IP and patent portfolio. Benoit is an expert in speech and speech processing, machine learning, deep neural networks and artificial intelligence. He holds a PhD for his work on speaker verification and has significant commercial experience in speech recognition and acoustic monitoring.

Marcel is an accomplished speech science expert, having studied at post-grad level at Brno University. Marcel headed up VB speech science at Voice Trust before its merger with Lumenvox, and brings significant commercial deployment experience in the field of voice-biometrics.

Prior to joining ValidSoft, Simon was Senior Product Manager for Alexa at Amazon where he led global product strategy and vision for Voice commerce TV Shopping using Alexa. He lead the team that created a brand new end-to-end Alexa Shopping experience for Fire TV and a range of products and features for Echo Show devices.