Daon CEO and leadership

As Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Administration for Daon, Diana oversees all Finance & Accounting, Human Resources and Information Technology & Security functions for the Company. In her role, she manages compliance and operational aspects of these areas, as well as enables growth through relevant pricing, strategic investments and other support for the different lines of business with contracts in over a dozen countries and staff based in six different countries. Serving as a business partner to other members of the management team, Diana supports the alignment to key success factors in all areas of the business, including organization, incentives, processes and technology. As CFO, her role includes serving as a business partner to other members of the management team for a unified approach to all aspects of the Company’s business. She brings over 18 years of financial and business management experience ranging from small, privately owned businesses to large, publicly traded Fortune 500 companies.

Diana’s experience in organizations serving government and commercial customers has provided her with extensive knowledge of the software, professional services and business process outsourcing marketplace, along with expertise in the federal procurement process and accounting requirements and practices. In addition, her experience includes broad-based financial management, proposal pricing models, IPOs, SEC reporting, mergers and acquisitions, systems implementations, and international operations. Prior to joining Daon, Diana was a senior management team member at MAXIMUS. Diana has a BA degree in accounting from the College of William and Mary, Virginia. Diana received a certificate from Stanford University - Strategic Leadership 4 CFO’s Program. She is also a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Diana enjoys spending time with her very big family and loves to travel. Many years ago, she lived and worked in Paris, France and that spurred a love of seeing new places. She is a dance enthusiast and also enjoys reading and watching movies.

As the CTO of Daon and a member of Daon’s Board of Directors, James Ahern is responsible for the research, development, and cloud services functions within Daon. He has overall responsibly for the technical leadership and direction of all Daon products and services. The Research team works on leading edge technology, developing new biometric algorithms which make it easier for consumers to interact online. The Engineering teams are responsible for the software products Daon delivers which incorporate that leading-edge research and support many of the largest authentication and biometric systems in the world. The Cloud Services team now delivers Daon’s software products as a service for customers with a scalable, secure and fully multi-tenant offering for small and large customers around the globe. James is Daon’s representative to the FIDO Alliance board and is an accomplished inventor with multiple patents to his name.

Prior to joining Daon, James worked at Electronic Data Systems (EDS) for seven years as a Systems Engineer where he developed and delivered computing systems for the US Government, General Motors, and a number of other clients. James holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and Microelectronics from University College Cork.

Martin is Daon’s Chief Legal Officer and Head of Government Affairs. As such Martin is responsible for managing all legal and regulatory activity across the company. Martin is also responsible for directing Daon’s political and government affairs strategy.

Martin is a qualified barrister and was called to the Bar in 1995. He is a recognized, international legal and regulatory affairs expert and combines broad based experience in senior legal and regulatory positions both in-house and in private practice with a successful international legal, lobbying and advisory career in Brussels, London and Washington DC.

Martin was also one of the founding Directors of the European Biometric Forum - a non-profit organization launched by the European Commission in 2003 and in 2008 was nominated to act as Rapporteur for the newly founded European Security Research and Innovation Forum (ESRIF) working group responsible for Identification and Identity Management.

Martin enjoys mountain climbing, family time and listening to music.