Heather Dahl is CEO and co-founder of Indicio and has built the company into a global market leader in verifiable identity and data using decentralized identity technology. 

Under her leadership, Indicio is driving digital transformation around the world by providing seamless digital identity and data solutions built on its flagship product Indicio Proven®. 

These include the first successful Digital Travel Credential (DTC) based on International Civil Aviation Organization standards, which is currently in trial deployment with multiple airlines.Indicio’s implementation of the DTC paves the way for replacing paper passports and creates verifiable biometrics that mitigate attempts at fraud through generative AI. 

For work leading to the DTC, Indicio won a KuppingerCole European Identity and Cloud Award, and a SuperNova Award from Constellation Research. Constellation’s Steve Wilson described Indicio’s work on verifiable data as “leading edge.”

Heather’s track record of combining thought leadership with business innovation has been instrumental in driving verifiable credentials and verifiable identity and data as a powerful market category that solves critical problems around fraud and privacy while simplifying data integration and identity and access management. 

Under her tenure, Indicio has developed partnerships with leading global enterprises (SITA and Dai Nippon Printing Co.), marketplace providers (AWS and Google) and grown a roster of customers driving digital transformation in agriculture, finance, healthcare, the public sector, supply chain, as well as travel and tourism.

This customer growth has been facilitated by a business approach that starts by building small and seeing value before scaling — and an approach to technology that prioritizes customer needs. Indicio Proven is designed to be a universal solution that can align with all current and emerging protocols and standards and, critically, can be implemented and work on any existing system.

Heather has built a company of the brightest minds in decentralized identity, each committed to delivering the best in engineering and customer service. Indicio’s team culture is internally collaborative so that the company can provide “full-stack” client support — from business development to governance to marketing in addition to engineering. This holistic approach is the key to unlocking our clients’ successes. 

Prior to Indicio, Heather led the Sovrin Foundation through its most significant period of growth, and she led research teams at KPMG and at telecommunications firm Neustar. 

She has served as the chair of the National Press Foundation board of directors and as chair of the Congressional Correspondents Association. She is a member of the Governing Board of the Hyperledger Foundation. Heather is widely regarded as a global thought leader on online privacy and security issues, and she advises governments and global NGOs on decentralized identity applications. Heather is a committed advocate for privacy-preserving cybersecurity technologies. 

Heather has an MBA from Johns Hopkins University and an M.S. from Columbia; she earned her B.A. from Willamette.