David Wen

Chief Scientist
eCurrency

David is the co-founder and Chief Scientist of eCurrency. He brings over 20 years of experience and technological thought leadership in the area of digital currency, distributed ledger, identity management, security protocol design, cryptography, key management, and electronic payment systems. He was the security architect behind the design and implementation of the U.S. Department of Defense’s Common Access Smart Card, and went on to become the Chief Scientist of SAIC helping the entire US government to adopt the Personal Identity Verification (PIV) program. He has 11 U.S. and EU patents in the area of security protocol and cryptography.