Eric LeSaint, Chief Architect - Identity and Access Management at Visa

Eric's Bio:

As Chief Enterprise Architect - Identity and Access Management at VISA since 2012, Mr. Le Saint supports the strategy, innovation, compliance and service deployment aspects of VISA IAM program. Mr. Le Saint is also currently engaged in the standardization of advanced secure communication technology for chip cards at GlobalPlatform (OPACITY). Mr. Le Saint has given several presentations on this subject in forums such as the Real World Cryptography Workshop.

Prior to VISA, Mr. Le Saint was Sr. Director of Security and Research at ActivIdentity (HID Global). He has actively contributed during 10 years in the development, standardization and adoption programs of the US Government PIV/ DoD Common Access Card with NIST, ISO and the US Department of Defense. Mr. Le Saint was co-editor with NIST of the ANSI 504 standard supporting PIV and CAC, and held the position of Systems Committee Chair at GlobalPlatform.