Yair Frankel is president of TechTegrity LLC. TechTegrity consults and advises on strategy and various initiatives for organizations ranging from Global 100 companies to entrepreneurial startups, including Authora Inc. and Greenline Systems. Yair has 20 years of experience developing fraud-security technology and is a recognized expert with an outstanding record for analyzing, developing, and implementing security into products including computer security, cryptography, common system rules, contracts, and business practices for e-commerce.

Prior to TechTegrity, Yair was chief scientist at eCash Technologies Inc., where he developed strategic relationships and managed technology initiatives with Deutsche Bank, Discover, and MetaVante. Prior to eCash Technologies he served as chairman of the CTO committee at CertCo Inc., managing technical customer relationships and partnerships with Intel, HP, Sun, Spyrus, Barclays, NSA, and Sandia Labs, and coordinated CertCo's intellectual property development with eight global banks to establish "Identrus LLC," a risk-managed e-commerce network. He formerly served at Sandia National Laboratories, where he co-authored a three-year Directed Research and Development proposal to investigate scalable cryptography.

Yair was a senior member of technical staff at GTE Laboratories, where he oversaw the development of a wireless security lab for the Cellular Telephone Industry Association, represented GTE at the American Bar Association's efforts on digital signatures, and was the primary architect of Sandia's Laboratory Directed Research and Development on biometrics and smartcards. He also developed software for a smartcard-based timecard protocol at GTE, co-invented an instantiated attack on the Clipper chip, and developed secure biometric technologies that retain user privacy on public templates. He worked as a systems engineer for Electronic Data Systems, and served in the United States Air Force Reserves.

Yair received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, and has over 50 publications in scientific conferences and journals. He serves as program chair and proceedings editor for several conferences on financial cryptography and is a member of the Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Force. Currently he is working with Northeastern University on a cross-curriculum graduate program with the Criminal Justice and Computer Science departments.