The Leading Private Company That Protects Your Identity: Daon

INNOVATE WHILE YOU AUTHENTICATE

Everyone in the industry today is struggling to protect their identity. That is why Daon had to come into the market to furnish the best human authentication platform that will be enabling people across any channel to easily assert and protect their identity. Founded in 2000, Daon is a privately held software company that has pioneered methods for security and convenience by combining biometric and identity capabilities with large-scale deployments that span payments verification, digital banking, wealth, insurance, telcos, and securing borders and critical infrastructure.

Today, Daon creates products to help manage identities in six continents, across the full identity lifecycle including onboarding, authentication, and recovery, thus eliminating the threat of security breaches and fraud.

The Major Problem the Company Solves

For more than a decade, Daon has been a driving force at the heart of biometric adoption, making the global economy safer, more efficient, more inclusive and more transparent for all. Throughout the world, Daon has developed identity assurance software that allows government and commercial enterprises to establish trust factor that someone is who they claim to be and currently it manages hundreds of millions of biometric identities around the globe. As a certified FBI Channeler, Daon processes criminal history background checks required as part of employment decisions, including approximately 90% of U.S. airport workers.

The Game Changing Platform Offered By the Company

Daon’sIdentityX is a multi-modal, vendor agnostic and future-proof identity services platform that addresses the full customer identity lifecycle. The key to trust in a digital identity is a unified, user-centric view of identity creation, use, and management. It is an omnichannel approach to biometric authentication, allows users to mix and match security factors of the past (e.g., passwords and tokens) with security factors of today (e.g., voice, fingerprint, facial, behavioral biometrics) as well as emerging factors of tomorrow. All these factors can be used individually or fused together to deliver the level of assurance desired.

Daon delivers solutions needed to empower mission-critical programs which demand the strongest levels of security and identity assurance and serves as a key technology behind leading financial institutions including Visa, Mastercard, USAA, BNP Paribas Wealth Management and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC). The firm protects you with large-scale deployments that span payments verification, digital banking, wealth, insurance, telcos, and securing borders and critical infrastructure.

• Identity Establishment through account origination and digital onboarding
• Omni-Channel Multi-Factor Authentication via mobile, web, and call center authentication
• Identity Recovery and other device and account lifecycle management functions

IdentityX helps in establishing one’s identity by Onboarding product enables quick, accurate identity establishment for a range of purposes, including Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) checks. Mobile SDKs for iOS and Android, and JavaScript libraries for the web- enable a clear and efficient onboarding 

Every Company Needs a Strong Decision Maker and Here He Is

Tom Grissen, Chief Executive Officer:

Tom is Daon’s CEO and a member of Daon’s Board of Directors. Tom oversees all strategic and operational aspects of the business worldwide and is based in Daon’s Reston, Virginia office. His career spans publicly traded Fortune 100 technology companies to early stage “pure play” software companies.

Tom is the CEO and Chairman of DTIS (Daon Trusted Identity Services), a joint venture with the AAAE (American Association of Airport Executives). He is a member of the Advisory Committee of a joint venture with SMFG (Sumitomo Mistui Financial Group), providing cloud-based biometric Identity Services across a variety of markets in Japan. He is very active in government advisory groups and previously served on the Board of Directors for TechAmerica’s Public Sector. Tom holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Central Michigan University and an Executive MBA from the Eli Broad School of Business at Michigan State University.

Tom is recognized in the biometrics and identity industry as a thought leader, regularly called on by the media to discuss how biometrics establish trust online, significantly enhancing security while improving the user experience. Tom was identified by Forbes as “One of the Five CEO’s Who Are Reinventing Industry Through Digital” and has appeared on national television programs, such as CNBC’s Squawk Box.

Tom's hobbies include skiing, sailing, hiking National Parks, running and travel.

“Banking, Healthcare, Telcos, Critical Infrastructure. Wherever industry pros need access to high-value information, you'll find Daon'sIdentityX bridging the gap between security and convenience.”