Identity and biometrics experts Mark Crego and Janice Kephart have joined forces to launch a new consultancy which aims to offer guidance for on complex identity issues to the private and public sectors.Identity Strategy Partners will provide strategic vision on complex issues such as biometric immigration exit and homeland security identity management, the new firm noted in a statement.Crego states: “Creating a partnership with Janice Kephart fills a vast need in the complex world of how we establish policies and architect solutions that establish, verify and store identity. The world will only become increasingly dependent on how we identify ourselves as individuals and as nations. We need to get identity right, and few people understand why and how to do that from a policy standpoint like Janice.”Kephart states: “Our success and security as a nation and world are heavily dependent upon getting identity right. I am so thrilled to be partnering with someone of Mark Crego's deep technical calibre. We both believe that what can be and what should be is the solution driver, not what is. We believe in making things really happen, not just talking about them. And when we talk policy, it is to effect positive change. Equally important, we believe in teamwork and ethical responsibility, and our goal is to exemplify that as IdSP grows.”Crego recently retired after 18 years at Accenture, where was Managing Director for Accenture's Global Practice. Meanwhile, Kephart has 16 years working in identity as a policy driver with experience and leadership that includes: border counsel to the 9/11 Commission and the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee twice, founder of the Secure Identity & Biometric Association and its Air Entry-Exit Working Group.

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