5 Women to Be Honored for Their Leadership & Contributions in Biometrics and Security at SIA GovSummit
The Security Industry Association (SIA) has named five biometrics leaders as recipients of the 2022 SIA Women in Biometrics Awards. The awardees, who will be honored at the 2022 SIA GovSummit, SIA’s annual government security conference, are:
Gena Alexa, CEO and founder, Dignari. Alexa has held key technical and management roles in the delivery of strategic government biometrics programs for more than 20 years. In 2013, she founded Dignari LLC to provide program strategy, human-centered design, emerging technology and data analytics services to the federal government. Alexa oversees the delivery of biometrics and identity programs within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and Department of Defense. Her teams support transformative initiatives including CBP’s Biometric Entry Exit program and TSA’s Touchless PreCheck. In 2021, Alexa’s team won a 5-year single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement to provide identity, credentialing and access management services across DHS and its component agencies.