Neville Pattinson

Senior Vice President for Federal Government Sales, Thales

    Neville Pattinson is the Senior Vice President for Federal Government Sales at Thales Group’s Identity & Biometric Solutions team based in Austin, TX. Within that role he constantly evangelizes the need to move to secure digital identity solutions to protect US Citizen’s identity and privacy. Mr. Pattinson is a leading expert and thought leader on digital security identity solutions such as smart cards, electronic passports, biometric technologies and mobile identity to keep identity credentials secure, private and trusted. Mr Pattinson was consulted as part of the White House formation of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) and has served for five years on the Management Board of NSTIC’s Identity Ecosystem Steering Group (IDESG).