David Shrier is a globally recognised authority on financial innovation who works with corporations and governments to generate economic expansion. One of his achievements includes creating and leading the Oxford Fintech and Oxford Blockchain Strategy programmes. He specialises in helping established organisations to build new revenue, having developed $8.5 billion of growth opportunities with C-suite executives for D&B, Wolters Kluwer, EY, MIT, GE/NBC, Disney, AOL Verizon, and Starwood, as well as private equity and venture capital funds. He has led several private equity and venture capital-backed companies as chief executive officer, chief financial officer or chief operating officer.

David is the CEO of Distilled Identity, an AI biometrics software company; Vice Chairman of Endor, a crowd intelligence platform; and Chairman of Riff Learning, an AI-driven collaboration technology platform provider. He is also a lecturer at the MIT Media Lab and fellow with the Payne Institute at the Colorado School of Mines.