Governance built on trust

With over 30 years' experience in founding, operational and advisory capacities, Gareth provides Trust Stamp with technical, managerial, and visionary skills, as well as legal expertise. Gareth has successfully conceptualized, implemented, scaled, and exited multiple businesses including a cloud storage enterprise which was sold, and an online educational platform which was acquired by a non-profit educational entity. A British lawyer by training, Gareth holds a U.S. LLM in International Taxation & Financial Service Regulation.

An economist by education, Andrew began his career in financial services sales and marketing. As Trust Stamp was Andrew's first start-up, he initially immersed himself in the lean-start-up environment by completing incubator programs through Founder's Space in San Francisco, QC FinTech in Charlotte, Plug and Play in both Silicon Valley and Abu Dhabi, and NAR REach® in Chicago. As ongoing professional development, Andrew has completed programs including Harvard Business School: CORe, UC Berkeley: Artificial Intelligence, Business Strategies and Applications, MIT Sloan School of Management: Design Thinking, MIT Sloan Executive Education: Blockchain Technologies, Business Innovation and Application and Stanford University: Innovation and Entrepreneurship Certificate. As Group President, Andrew oversees operations and business development, and acts as Chief Product Evangelist.

Bill is a well-respected figure within the United Kingdom property market, having been involved in real estate for over fifty years. During this time he has been Managing Director of Royal Life Estates South with a chain of two hundred and fifty offices.

He successfully exited Cornerstone Estate Agencies (three hundred and forty-seven offices), when it was purchased from Abbey National plc., and subsequently joined Hamptons as International Development Director with specific responsibility for business generated in the markets of Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia.

In 2003 he became the Chief Operating Officer of The Ombudsman for Estate Agents for the UK and in 2007 became Chairman a post he held until the end of 2015, which covers approximately 90 percent of all residential agents in the UK.

Kristin Stafford is the Co-Founder and CEO of Vital4, a global enterprise offering a cloud-based platform which provides instant data screening to support compliance, background screening, due diligence, and more. Prior to co-founding Vital4, she co-founded and served as a Managing Partner of one of the first independent wholesale international background screening firms in the US. The platform was sold to Dun and Bradstreet in 2021.

With more than twenty years of experience in operations management, process architecture, and software development, Kristin has organized and managed teams of over 100 employees and consultants. She previously managed the financial operations of a large Atlanta-based financial services corporation, served as a senior consultant for Delta Technology and Northern Trust Bank, and held a management role within a start-up division of GE Capital.

Berta Pappenheim has a background in occupational psychology, delivering competency-based assessment programmes in the financial and professional services industries. Berta moved into the cybersecurity sector where she held the role of Managing Director of a cyber threat intelligence consulting firm for four years.

Berta holds a Master’s degree in Social Sciences from the University of Linköping in Sweden and is currently working towards obtaining a Master of Science in Neuroscience at King’s College

Charles Potts is a prominent figure in the financial technology sector, bringing over 35 years of practical experience in nurturing and leading various organizations. Mr. Potts currently serves as the executive vice president and chief innovation officer for the Independent Community Bankers of America® (ICBA) where he drives ICBA’s innovation initiatives, and financial technology strategies.

Mr. Potts received his education from the Georgia Institute of Technology and pursued graduate studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He further enhanced his banking expertise by attending the Graduate School of Banking at LSU.

David is a financial services professional and corporate executive. He is currently Executive Chairman of KM Malta Airlines the flag carrier airline of the Maltese Islands and was formerly the Executive Chairman of Air Malta p.l.c.

David started his career in the insurance industry over forty years ago, during which time he held various senior executive positions with a number of insurance operators.

David is an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute of the United Kingdom and a Chartered Insurer.

He also holds the following positions and directorships; Chairman World Aviation Group Ltd., member of the Board of The Malta Tourism Authority and member of the Customer Advisory Board of SITA International.

He previously served as the first Chairman of the Board of Governors of the National Development and Social Fund (NDSF) and of Trade Malta Ltd.

David is a former President of the Malta Chamber of Commerce, Enterprise and Industry the leading business representative body in Malta.