Meet The Experts
 

Steve Graham

GM Biometrics and Digital ID
Executive member DINZ

Steve Graham has an extensive background in biometrics and technology, with a career spanning Japan, the USA, and New Zealand. Steve's professional journey includes senior executive roles at Microsoft, KPMG and Fronde as well as leading product development at Alpine Electronics in Japan.

Vica Papp

Vice President DINZ
MBIE Principal Data Scientist,
Identity Services

Dr Vica Papp is a dual forensic-biometric identification specialist who has served as an independent forensic expert Since 2009. Vica works as a Principal Data Scientist at MBIE testing, optimising, and consulting on high-throughput biographic entity resolution and biometric identification solutions in the face and fingerprint domains. 

 

Graeme Prentice

Biometric Subject Matter Expert
NEC New Zealand

Graeme is a Biometrics Solution Consultant at NEC New Zealand, and has been with the company for over seven years. One of his areas of expertise is Digital Identity and the utilisation of biometrics in confirming identity.

Roger Ford

Head NZ Software Association
Digital Identity Subject Matter Expert

Roger has been building software businesses for three decades. For the last twenty years he has also been a leading contributor to the growth of the NZ Software sector, through mentoring dozens of SaaS ventures and as the head of the NZ Software Association. In recent years he has been called on to advise several government agencies and to advocate for the technology sector on key legislation. He is the co-chair of the DISTF Working Group, a representative member at the Digital Identity NZ Executive Council, and the Managing Director of Innovise.

jeff kennedy

University of Auckland
Executive member DINZ

jeff is Enterprise Architecture Manager at The University of Auckland. jeff has worked extensively in the domains of identity management, integration architecture, information management, solutions architecture, and business architecture. jeff attempts to lead a pragmatic, effective, and appreciated enterprise architecture practice. jeff served as founding co-chair of the CAUDIT Enterprise Architecture Community of Practice, has represented Universities New Zealand on national working groups for digital identity services in education and research systems, and co-convenes the CAUDIT Higher Education Reference Models Working Group.