Darren Pollard

With a career spanning almost 30 years, I'm a savvy technologist with a keen eye for product/market fit but with a focus on practical routes to commercialisation and profitability, even when involved in businesses and opportunities that are sometimes ‘ahead of the curve’.

I have lived in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States (plus a couple of European countries) working across various startups and more established businesses mainly in the mobile, content, payments and gaming industries in senior roles across management, corporate development, product development, sales and marketing and strategy.

I'm leading the expansion of global personal digital identity business Yoti (www.yoti.com) into Australia from the UK; where I believe; as more fraudulent actors, fake profiles and other imitators proliferate the digital space the business will flourish across many sectors. Yoti has a number of fantastic products addressing identity verification, age verification and digital signing with both scalable and disruptive qualities that have already been well received by some large businesses in the Australian market.

Prior to this, I helped a number of global gaming and payments businesses with market entry into Australia and before that spent over six years in London in various product development and commercial strategy roles helping some of the largest well-known online gaming brands in the world with their shift to mobile.

I was based in New York for over five years and established a revolutionary mobile-based social network (long before Facebook had a mobile product) that engaged customers through gamification, leaderboards and monetization. I also created a North American presence for a Sydney based interactive mobile marketing agency securing a number of licensing deals with television, sports and media organizations across Canada, Mexico and the US.