Covarrubias, an airport technology expert and Strategic Advisor at Indicio, has recently focused on putting AI to work inside airports and airlines. He supports Indicio as the company extends its digital identity platform into travel, financial services, and the identity layer that AI systems will run on.
By Helen Garneau
SEATTLE, AUGUST 31, 2026:
Alex Covarrubias serves as a Strategic Advisor to Indicio; a trailblazing aviation-technology innovator with deep vertical expertise and a career defined by pioneering enterprise AI transformation. For years, he has been integrating Physical multimodal AI into the aviation vertical, and is a Co-Founder of the Airports AI Alliance, an industry initiative that brings together airports and technology partners to build shared understanding and best practices around AI adoption, with a focus on high-value use cases, change management, and adoption across passenger experience, airside, and terminal operations.
With Indicio now bridging human and non-human digital identity through its Indicio Proven® platform, and with expanding deployments in travel and financial services, Covarrubias’s experience is more crucial than ever to both the company’s growth strategy and its innovation in decentralized identity as a trust layer for agentic AI.
Covarrubias held senior commercial and growth roles at SITA, a leading global technology company focused on aviation, where he served on the senior leadership team as Vice President and more recently led growth at fast-growing Physical AI and Agentic AI startups focused on the airport and aviation sector. He brings extensive experience as a startup founder and advisor, and is part of Plug and Play Tech Center’s Enterprise AI and Travel and Transportation cohorts in Silicon Valley, where he mentors early-stage travel-technology companies. He is currently Global Head of Airport Sales at Honeywell..
“Alex’s experience and vision is precisely what we need as both our human and AI identity solutions take off in travel and financial infrastructure,” said Heather Dahl, CEO of Indicio. “Our positioning as a transformative technology provider that bridges trust between people, organizations, and agents has been recognized by leading analysts and trade publications, and Alex is helping guide these deployments and our growth strategy.”
“Era-defining opportunity”
“Indicio has shown how verifiable credential technology is transforming airport and airline systems both for customer-facing and back end operations,” said Covarrubias. “And it has shown how this same technology can seamlessly apply to AI agents and systems, solving critical problems in authentication, authorization, delegation, compliance, and security. This is a pivotal moment, where a single, feature-rich, interoperable trust layer can rapidly accelerate digital transformation in travel and beyond. The scale of opportunity is nothing short of era-defining, a global foundation for digital identity in the agentic web. I’m tremendously excited to be advising such an innovative company at this moment in its growth.”
Recognition as a leader
Covarrubias advises Indicio at a time when the company has been recognized for both innovation in digital identity and for its market leadership. Its flagship platform, Indicio Proven®, provides a range of verifiable credential formats and protocols, including ISO 18013-5 and 18013-7, along with the ability to interoperate between them. Indicio has pioneered the addition of authenticated biometrics to verifiable credentials for both ICAO Digital Travel Credential specifications and KYC requirements. It has partnered with IDEMIA Public Security, Regula, and NEC to connect directly to the document readers and biometric systems that airports and banks already run.
Indicio’s advisory team
Covarrubias serves on Indicio’s advisory team, alongside Will Groah, a successful entrepreneur and investor who is also on Indicio’s board; Tom Plofchan, former Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer at Pangiam; Michael Zureik, former Head of Digital Travel and Innovation at SITA and Transformation Architect at the Canada Border Services Agency; and Ajay Srivastava, who led transformation programs at PwC, KPMG, and Lockheed Martin.
About Indicio
Indicio is leading the market in verifiable credential solutions for AI in travel. To see how verifiable credential technology can transform agent systems, contact Indicio for a 30-minute walkthrough.
