Dr Rachel O'Connell

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Dr Rachel O’Connell is founder and CEO of TrustElevate.com, an eKYC provider, for All identities, All Ages, All Parents, Any Service, One Solution. TrustElevate enabling digital platforms to operate in compliance with a raft of regulations. Dr O'Connell is one of the preeminent authorities on electronic identification and age verification. She is the author of the British Standards Institution (BSI) technical standard on Age Checking code of practice, which is now becoming an ISO standard. Rachel is a member of the BSI technical committee IST/33/5 Identity Management and Privacy Technologies and its panel IST/33/5/5 Age Assurance Standards. Dr O'Connell was the subject matter expert on the Home Office and Department for Culture Media and Sports, Verification of Children Online (VoCO) programme of work. See video of stakeholders here - rationale for the VoCO programme of work here and final report here Rachel was the fifth person to join the social networking platform, Bebo, and was instrumental in operationally building the business, which was acquired by AOL in 2008 for $850M. Before joining Bebo, Rachel led a series of highly successful large-scale Pan-European projects, which in

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