John Edge is the chairman and co-founder of Identity 2020, a non-profit focused on bringing emerging technology to the challenge of stateless vulnerable children. Mr. Edge is an entrepreneur and founder specializing in public-private partnerships to drive legal identity and financial inclusion through designing, funding, and building collaborative, sustainable business models leveraging emerging technologies. Prior to founding Identity 2020, Mr. Edge was a successful FinTech entrepreneur, with his most recent venture being Redkite, a company which uses algorithms and pattern recognition to detect and prevent insider trading. He also serves as the co-chair and founder of the Whitechapel Think Tank, which has enabled the Bank of England, the UK Government, regulators, and the private sector to constructively collaborate on the potential for block chain and distributed ledger technologies. Mr. Edge received his B.Eng. from the University of Leeds.