Kelly Schmitt

Kelly Schmitt is the General Counsel & Chief Privacy Officer at Hiya. Kelly previously served as the General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer at Whitepages from July 2013 to May 2019.

Whitepages is a global leader in digital identity verification. Their solutions include Whitepages Premium for consumers and Whitepages Pro for businesses. Whitepages Premium provides consumers access to U.S. public records to verify contact details, mobile numbers, bankruptcy history, criminal records, and more to facilitate trusting interactions in today’s sharing economy. Whitepages Pro provides businesses with global identity verification solutions via enterprise-scale APIs and web tools to help companies identify the legitimate customers from the fraudulent ones.

Whitepages' foundation is data at massive scale. Their open search web properties serve 55 million visitors per month and account for more than 90% of free people searches in North America. To support these users, Whitepages has developed its own fully-integrated, high-availability Identity Graph database which houses more than 5 billion global identity records. These records have been curated and corroborated from hundreds of different sources and made available to our users to deliver unparalleled coverage, accuracy, and performance.

During their time at Whitepages, Kelly was responsible for overseeing the company's legal affairs and ensuring compliance with privacy regulations. Kelly was instrumental in developing Whitepages' industry-leading identity verification solutions, which have helped make the internet a safer place for billions of people worldwide

Kelly Schmitt has a J.D. from University of Michigan Law School and a B.A. in Biology from College of Saint Benedict.

Kelly Schmitt reports to Alex Algard, Founder & CEO. Kelly Schmitt works with Aaron Martin - CFO, Jonah-Kai Hancock - VP, Demand Generation, and Kush Parikh - President.