Your Digital ID Managed with One Account Army Veteran and CEO/Co-Founder of ID.me Blake Hall

87: Blake Hall is the Co-Founder and CEO of ID.me, a digital identity wallet designed to empower consumers to prove their identity online while controlling how their personal data is shared. ID.me was selected by the United States Department of Commerce as one five companies to participate in the President’s National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace in 2013. A Finalist for Wall Street Journal Startup of the Year in 2013, ID.me was also included in the June 2014 issue of Entrepreneur Magazine as one of 100 Brilliant Companies for 2014.

A veteran of the Iraq war, Blake led a platoon of scouts and snipers hunting high value targets in Iraq for fifteen months from July 2006 – September 2007. He was awarded the Bronze Star with Valor for heroism during a firefight against Al-Qaida affiliated insurgents attacking an American hospital in Mosul, Iraq in an action senior commanders credited with saving twenty American lives. Blake has written for The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, and Forbes. Thanks to The Economist, Blake holds the distinction of being the first Google result for the phrase ‘muscly entrepreneur.’ Blake attained a Bachelor of Science magna cum laude from Vanderbilt University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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ID.me began as a tool that allowed members of the military to securely submit and prove their identity online. This new capability gave military members access to the thousands of discounts and exclusive savings they could previously only receive in-store because merchants had no way to check a physical ID card online. Soon after, we began to issue digital ID cards for students, first responders, and teachers as well.

The success of those projects led us to wonder: why doesn’t digital identity work like identity in the physical world where people have ID cards they can easily display to prove their identity?

To make trusted online interactions more convenient, we built ID.me, a secure digital wallet, to store all of your digital ID cards so that you can easily prove your identity and group statuses online. Your ID.me wallet login – the e-mail and password you create when you sign up with ID.me – will always remain the same even as you add more and more digital ID cards to your wallet.

One thing that hasn’t changed is our promise to our members: your personal information belongs to you. You, and only you, control how your information is shared while ID.me deploys bank-grade encryption to keep your data safe at all times.