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James Spalding
James Spalding is a technology entrepreneur and business leader. He began his career at IBM and Lockheed Martin, experiences that developed his knowledge of IT and business development at a global level. This grounding has since guided his entrepreneurial journey.
Today, he is CEO of OLR Group, a global retail technology consultancy, and Chairman of Orchestrating Identity, which he founded to address the missing layer he saw while working across ecommerce: trust, the foundation that he believes will allow digital infrastructures and identity management to remain open, secure and built to last.