Jez is a cybersecurity strategist and innovator with more than 25 years of experience in financial services, digital identity, and enterprise security architecture. He served as Head of Cyber Security and Innovation at Barclays UK, where he led the development of the bank’s mobile app enrollment framework and is a named inventor of the Barclays Direct Call function, a security innovation now used by millions of customers. He holds additional patents in security systems and is the author of PAS499, the British Standards Institution’s code of practice for digital identification and strong customer authentication. Jez is currently founder of Illicit Labs, Innovator in Residence at the University of Manchester, and an active contributor to the Cloud Security Alliance. He brings deep expertise in trustworthy AI, privacy-enhancing technologies, and the applied governance of digital systems.