David Birch

Advisory Board Member

2024 - Current

The Deepfake Summit (www.thedeepfakesummit.com) is the only event exclusively dedicated to exploring and understanding the rapidly evolving, cutting-edge technology driving deepfakes, harnessing broad-based interdisciplinary expertise to advance their appropriate use, and creating solutions to protect and defend against the dangers of their exploitation. The inaugural event will be held in New York in early November.

Principal

2017

I am Principal at 15Mb Ltd., in which capacity I deliver board-level advice and global commentary on digital financial services.

Member of the Payments Advisory Board

2023

Venture Partner

2020

1414 Ventures is a US-based fund that invests in early stage companies in the digital identity space.

Director

1986

Global Ambassador, responsible for building relationships around the world. Consult Hyperion is an independent strategic advisory and technical consultancy, based in the UK and US, specialising in secure electronic transactions. With over 30 years’ experience, we help organisations across the globe exploit opportunities presented by new technologies, regulatory changes and consumer expectations. We design systems that support mass scale secure electronic payments and identity transaction services. We deliver value to our clients by supporting them in delivering their strategy. Hyperlab, our inhouse software development and testing team, rapidly prototypes new concepts, delivers security critical software for mass deployment, and thoroughly tests the functionality and security of third-part products on behalf of clients.

Non Executive Chairman

2020

Digiseq is a UK-based startup that delivers identity to the internet of things. Their platform for the management of microchips in devices, ranging from wristwatches to the Golden Globe awards, enables payment-ready, provenance-ready and other secure services for the new economy built on smart objects

Senior Research Fellow, Qatar Centre for Global Banking and Finance

2022

Research into central bank digital currencies and decentralised financial services with particular emphasis on the impact of new technologies on central bank strategies and policies.

Digital Fellow

2021

DIGIT Lab is a five year programme providing research insights, knowledge frameworks and practical techniques to accelerate digital transformation in the UK. The Centre works with large organisations to help them to reinvent themselves for the digital age. to reimagine them for the digital age. The Centre combines active research, education and industrial co-development to tackle key issues. I help to bridge academic research and enterprise strategy.

Associate

2021

I lecture on digital financial services in senior management development programmes for the Institute at Churchill College, Cambridge.

Advisory Board Member

2022

KYP is a real-time third party enterprise risk intelligence platform that addresses the urgent market need for continuous monitoring of and alerts on 3rd party companies. We scan more data sources than anyone else, including credit score, DarkWeb, PEP, sanctions, adverse media and insolvency checks to generate a complete picture of the partners your business relies upon. KYP then combines this data and intelligently connects it together with our unique AI, Machine Learning and our graph linking database - resulting in insights other solutions are missing.