Katryna Dow is the founder and CEO of Meeco. She has been pioneering personal data rights since 2002, when she envisioned a time when personal sovereignty, identity and contextual privacy would be as important as being connected. Now distributed ledger, personal clouds, mobile technology, AI, Internet-of-Things and regulation such as the GDPR and Open Banking have converged to make Meeco both possible and necessary.

In 2011, she co-founded a think tank and incubator to explore commercialisation and business models across the emerging personal information sector. In early 2012, she wrote the Meeco Manifesto, and confident in strategy development and business model she founded Meeco in August of the same year. Katryna initially self-funded Meeco, before raising seed capital in January 2014, enabling Meeco to launch its first public platform in July 2014.

Katryna speaks globally on privacy and data innovation and currently serves on two IEEE standards working groups; Co-Chair for the Personal Data and Privacy Committee, part of the Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in the Design of Autonomous Systems, and Chair for the new P7006 - Standard for Personal Data Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agent.

She is the co-author of the blockchain identity paper ‘Immutable Me’ and co-author/co-architect of Meeco’s distributed ledger solution and, most recently, the White Paper on Zero Knowledge Proofs for Access, Control, Delegation and Consent of Identity and Personal Data.

Prior to Meeco she founded and operated a strategy consulting practice. As a consultant, Katryna has extensive global experience in strategy to execution roles in start-ups to major corporate change and implementation and projects. Katryna has held leadership positions and delivered projects in the United Kingdom, Europe, Asia, United States and India. Her industry sector experience includes information technology, financial services, health services and human resources.

Katryna currently splits her time between Australia and Europe, where Meeco has offices and development teams.

Derek is passionate about how technology can change the world for a better future. He has developed and implemented solutions across Australia and around the globe. From developer to chief technology officer, to investor and chief executive officer, Derek has a broad view of technology past, present and future. 

As the Head of Engineering since Meeco’s inception, Derek provides architectural and technical leadership for the Meeco platform ensuring the technology underpinning Meeco is not only consistent with the organization’s goals and objectives but also adapting and scaling to the changing needs of the emerging global personal data marketplace. He has been instrumental in building and maturing all software and API development of the Meeco platform and of the Meeco Labs testing and learning environment. With vast experience in all aspects of the software lifecycle across industries such as media, telecommunications, finance and government, Derek brings a passion and dedication to developing innovative software that scales. 

Derek has driven privacy and data consent projects for Meeco, including with two global telecommunications companies, two Australian telecommunications and media companies, two multinational financial services corporation, an Australian postal company and a European telecommunications company.

Prior to Meeco, Derek's experience included responsibility for the successful delivery of Telstra's Project Chameleon, a user personalized mobile portal; Eccosphere, a social utility for mobile devices; Australian Marine Catalogue, a harmonization of marine spatial data infrastructure; among others.

Derek led the Meeco team to win best project for the August 2017 Australian Payments Council Sydney Hackathon for the implementation of a loyalty concept on top of the Open Bank Project APIs.

As a senior software engineer Ben was one of three engineers at a high growth Silicon Valley start-up that scaled from 10K daily active users (DAU) to 2M DAU in 12 months. Ben was responsible for redesigning and scaling the search algorithm and rebuilt the background jobs system to allow it to scale from sending 1M daily emails to 30M daily emails.

Ben has designed and built a large range of technologies including a visual search engine to identify targets in UAV footage and a vision system for a robot to prune grape vines.

Ben worked in San Francisco as part of the API team at the Discovery Channel to build the DiscoveryGo platform and then joined Discovery Digital Networks as the Principle Technical Architect. In his role as Principle Technical Architect, he conducted several large scale platform migrations and performed the technical due diligence into the Discovery Channels $100M investment into Group Nine Media.

He has also worked as an investment analyst at the Trans Tasman Commercialization Fund conducting technical due diligence on seed and Series A investments.

Most recently, Ben has applied his business skills as a blockchain analyst at CoinRemix and a mentor at Techstars.

Ben joined Meeco in December 2017 to synthesise the prior blockchain and distributed ledger research across verified claims, governance, privacy management and smart contracts. The White Paper on Zero Knowledge Proofs for Access, Control, Delegation and Consent of Identity and Personal Data which is tied to this ground breaking work was recently published, May 2018.

Glenn is an experienced CEO, entrepreneur, scale-up venture leader, investor, director and vigneron.

His success to date has been built around being involved in and/or growing customer-centric businesses at all stages of the growth cycle (listed and private) from existence (start-ups), to resource maturity (>$1B) in the areas of IOT, AR/VR, Robotics, Agtech, HR, Education, Healthtech, Cleantech, Fintech, Blockchain, Digital Identity, Personal data & Marketplaces.

He is passionate about guiding entrepreneurs and organisations to understand the effects of emerging technology on business and society with a mantra of creating “shared value” – the idea that corporate success and social welfare (good) are interdependent.

Glenn is currently a board member at TALI Health, Newly, Meeco, Mentorloop, Plattar, Co-Founder of a boutique winery in Victoria, Australia and was CEO of online employment marketplace SpotJobs.com until a successful exit in September 2016.

Glenn is a Director and member of the Meeco Board, and successfully led Meeco's last investment round. Alongside his venture and investment expertise, he has leveraged his Tokenomics understanding to contribute to the Meeco White Paper on Zero Knowledge Proofs for Access, Control, Delegation and Consent of Identity and Personal Data.

Elizabeth is passionate about personal data value models, digital identity, execution and French Literature.

Elizabeth started her career at Capital One as one of the company’s first internet resources. In various roles across multiple departments, she was responsible for identifying solutions and growing new products via emerging technologies and simplification. As part of the payments team, she won two CEO Circle of Excellence awards: one for prepaid and another for decoupled debit. Her last work there was tied to Capital One Bank integrations.

Elizabeth next became one of the first employees at Cardlytics, the transaction marketing and card-linked offers pioneer who IPO’d in February 2018. Among other things at Cardlytics, she was responsible for multiple US and UK bank integrations prioritised as top strategic digital transformations by those banks' boards.

Elizabeth spent 2013-2017 helping multinational financial institutions, banks and start-ups create and maximise partnerships focused on innovative data driven products and services.

During this time, she acted as interim Head of Product for Visa Europe’s targeted marketing and card linked offers programme; she created and led an initial partnerships and loyalty department for Quidco, UK’s leading cashback site; and served as a Me2B and data innovation expert on Visa Europe’s Collab innovation team.

While at Visa Europe Collab, Elizabeth partnered with Meeco Labs on a Proof-Of-Concept and instantly saw Meeco’s potential to grow a multi-billion ecosystem. From that moment, she intended to become part of the Meeco family as soon as the timing was right.

Paul is an enterprise specialist. His experience spans from working directly with governments and government agencies throughout New Zealand and Australia and international NGO’s. He has designed solutions and managed teams spread around the globe.

Paul is experienced in designing forward facing client applications, complex API integrations, stack design, deploying and maintaining solutions on Azure and Amazon cloud, together with secure on-premise environments.

As technical lead for the Meeco suite of applications, Paul provides design, development, and quality oversight to the entire software lifecycle:

• Designed and implemented distributed key management (DKMS) using Node.js, express deployed into an AWS stack using Redis, Mongo, PostgreSQL, Dynamo and SNS 
• Designed new, and improved existing Identity and Consent Management Systems across projects for Meeco and a New Zealand government agency
• Designed encrypted mobile-first key management authentication, authorisation and consent systems
• Integral in evolving the policies, process and development for data management, security and control, and Privacy by Design applications
• Currently researching distributed ledger implementations and analysing applications for both greenfield and brownfield enterprise stacks.

Paul was a team-member of the winning project for the August 2017 Australian Payments Council Sydney Hackathon for the implementation of the Open Bank Project's API.

Brent is the encryption strategy and implementation lead for Meeco. Drawing on his experience with API and third-party integration development.

Brent manages the integration team for the Meeco API platform, including:

• Lead developer on implementing the encryption development and coding  
• Technology design and implementation of encryption for sensitive data control and personal information security
• Technology controller, designer, and implementation lead for security and key management across team
• Manages and lead architect for API integration of third party application standardisation to ensure ease of interoperability between Meeco and third-party systems (existing and future) 
• Design of identity authenticity integrating encryption and blockchain integration
• Manages and implements integration of identity verification, personal finance verification, and personal data API's between Meeco for Federal Government and enterprise including the Australia Post Digital iD identity sandbox, a top 4 European telco, and national and international platforms as well as B2B training with a global multinational technology company
• Implementation of the Microsoft B2C Experience Engine

Through this work Brent has considerable experience building for sensitive data control and designing and implementing systems and process to increase the security of personal information.

Brent was a team-member of the winning project for the August 2017 Australian Payments Council Sydney Hackathon for the implementation of the Open Bank Project's API.

Stephen has worked extensively on Meeco API development, Meeco hybrid app development and across the Meeco operations stack.

His experience includes: 

• Full stack Ruby on Rails, react, redux and angular developer on Meeco API and Meeco suite of platforms, Web, iOS and Android
• Implementing the containerization of the Meeco API using Docker and Kubernetes
• Server side development for Meeco Labs demonstration for major European Telco
• Implementation and design for professional service organisations collecting and managing sensitive user data
• Enabling the shift to more open cloud based architecture by refactoring existing applications to make use of microservices such as Elastic Search
• Implementation of data anonymization to make data readily accessible and useful for predictive algorithm creation and detailed, scalable search architectures
• Development on international fundraising platform for iOS and Android involving strict standards of privacy, data and financial control and reporting

Stephen was a team-member of the winning project for the August 2017 Australian Payments Council Sydney Hackathon for the implementation of the Open Bank Project's API

In addition to Meeco, Stephen has also worked on development projects for enterprises, start-ups and not for profit organisations.

Mike has over 20 years of experience in the global technology and consulting sector in Europe, Asia Pacific and the USA. He has worked extensively with the start-up community as well as managed strategic engagements with significant multinational corporations.

With a focus on solutions delivery, relationship management and commercial execution, Mike has a passion for new technology and the changing landscape of the digital world.

With significant general management and operations experience within the executive search and talent management markets, Mike has successfully built and developed businesses across Australia, Silicon Valley and Asia.

Mike has been with Meeco since its early days helping to shape and grow the API of Me platform and consent engine; Meeco’s Open Banking Sandbox for designing, testing and iterating new customer use cases; and Meeco’s Australian network across start-ups, accelerators and enterprises.

Mike is responsible for the Meeco Microsoft Azure Active Directory B2C partnership where he is actively exploring co-creation opportunities that enable enterprises to future-proof their identity, personal data collection and compliant consent practices whilst unlocking new opportunities.

In addition, Mike co-authored the Meeco ‘Open Banking: Opening New Opportunities’ report which was an in-depth review of the Farrell Report into Open Banking in Australia as well as a review of the new commercial and cost savings opportunities open banking brings financial institutions and more.

Mike was also a team-member of the winning project for the August 2017 Australian Payments Council Sydney Hackathon for the implementation of the Open Bank Project's API.

Jeanne is passionate about tech start-ups, socially responsible entrepreneurship, and learning new technologies and languages. She specialises in marketing, project management and community building.

Jeanne’s global experience includes her native France, the United States (Massachusetts and Silicon Valley), and now Australia. Travel and experiencing different cultures first hand is important to her. She enjoys being a part of the tech scene and finding new communities to join or build.

While at Orange as a Digital Deployment Specialist for the France Enterprise Division, Jeanne was responsible for managing and deploying a large scale digital training program for which she won a national Orange award, “Business to business best project of the quarter”. Jeanne personally oversaw the communication plans, the development and distribution of promotional materials and the post survey data analysis for this project. In addition to overseeing this training effort while at Orange, Jeanne also created and implemented a rewards program leveraging digital marketing, social media and Orange’s Intranet. This work included not only supplier negotiations which led to optimised lead times and saving costs but also forming a strong partnership with the legal department to define rules for competition between entities.

Jeanne next had a Global Partner Marketing and Communication Co-op role at VMware. Here, she was part of the VMware Alliance partner program. Jeanne’s responsibilities included redesigning digital campaigns for Alliance partners and SAP, maximizing solution awareness via social channels, reporting monthly KPIs, and managing product marketing promotions. Jeanne especially honed her social media skills while at VMware by writing 20 VMware and industry related posts a week on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn for 144 partners, driving 72,320 clicks.

As the community and partnership manager at Meeco, Jeanne is responsible for building and growing new Meeco communities and partnerships from multiple perspectives such as the individual, enterprise, government, tech scene and more and across multiple channels such as social media, accelerators, partnerships and more.

Michael is the Lead Tester, first line support and development since the launch of the Meeco Platform.

He started working with Meeco iOS applications and now has an extended skill set that includes:

• Meeco's Ruby/Rails API Testing and development
• Managing, monitoring and educating on compliance and development requirements for GDPR and privacy by design including drafting of policy, and terms and conditions
• Involved in the testing and development of the Meeco-X app for Android, iOS and the browser-based progressive Web application
• Lead Tester for the work management platform App, based on Meeco Technologies for a national consulting engineering firm
• Lead Tester of the MeCast Application
• Lead Tester of the CtrlShift Personal Information Economy 2016 Conference App - built on the MeCast application's Technology.
• Lead Tester and Development of the MyData 2016 Conference Application, built on the MeCast application's Technology.
• Involved in the Testing, Development and Co-ordination of the Meeco Labs program, creating and testing solutions for 2 Major Australian Telcos, 2 Major European Telcos, a Major multinational financial services corporation, and Australian Federal Government and Enterprise including Australia Post.

Michael was a team-member of the winning project for the August 2017 Australian Payments Council Sydney Hackathon for the implementation of the Open Bank Project's API.

As an iOS developer with 12 years’ programming experience, Ric developed the initial Meeco MVP iPad application. Ricardo drew on his experience as a Control Systems Engineer coupled with his experience handling confidential data and risk management.

He was next involved with the version one development and launch of the Meeco platform and a range of iOS native apps.

He has continued to provide external peer review and consulted on various projects during peak development periods.  

His experience and expertise include:

• iOS developer with 7 years’ experience on over 50 iOS apps
• Development on third-party framework for a vision recognition system and published the framework on CocoaPods
• Management of internal and international team working across the Guvera music platform for iOS, Android and Web application with over 10 million downloads
• Partnering with remote product managers, designers and Web services developer teams on API integration and product design across dozens of feature groups such as user management, ad service, content creation and streaming for the Guvera platform
• Extensive experience integrating REST and SOAP APIs including client side caching
• Developed 7 published CocoaPods that have been used in over 250 apps
• Experience using Realm and CoreData on iOS
• Has worked with Cocoa Frameworks including Foundation, UIKit, CoreData, MediaPlayer, MapKit and CoreGraphics
• Has worked with third-party frameworks such as PromiseKit, RxSwift, Alamofire, Realm, Google Analytics, Fabric, ABBYY OCR, ZXing, SDWebImage

Bjorn is a Creative Art Director & UX / UI Designer from Hamburg, Germany, currently living in Sydney and overseeing creative direction for Meeco across all media channels including the Meeco app.

He is an accomplished, experienced conceptual thinker with a refined sense for digital campaigning and idea generation along with expertise across social media, mobile advertising integrated solutions and UX design.

His playground is all digital. And as such, he is a brand engineer and a natural problem solver with an entrepreneurial spirit. User-centered - creative solutions are his specialties.

Bjorn has worked freelance and permanently for some of the most successful German agencies on high-profile international accounts in the Automotive, Telco, FMCG, Insurance and Alcohol sectors.

Having worked in the start-up scene since she crash-landed in Sydney, Maria has been involved in all aspects of digital production in areas such as education, technology, health, retail and media.

Maria is multi-linguist with a background in communication, design, marketing and entrepreneurship who moonlights as an English teacher.

Maria likes to come up with clever solutions that make things easier and prettier. She also enjoys writing, designing and planning other things ad infinitum.

As Meeco’s Digital Brand Manager, Maria is responsible for all online and digital production. This includes all images across all channels from concept ideation, to proofing and brand management. Maria’s been keeping Meeco meecofied since day one as she likes to say.

In addition to designing and producing animations and videos for Meeco and its clients, Maria also oversees the conceptualisation and development of all of Meeco’s digital publications such as every blog, every email, and every report or whitepaper. These include the 'The Rise of The Attribute Economy 2.0' ; ‘Open Banking: Opening New Opportunities’; and, the White Paper on Zero Knowledge Proofs for Access, Control, Delegation and Consent of Identity and Personal Data.