SIA Welcomes New Leadership to Identity and Biometric Technology Advisory Board
The Security Industry Association (SIA) has named a new chair and vice chair to lead the SIA Identity and Biometric Technology Advisory Board (IBTAB), an advisory panel to the SIA Board of Directors comprised of biometric and digital identification professionals.
Benji Hutchinson — president of U.S. federal government business at NEC Corporation of America — will serve as SIA IBTAB chair, with Jim Black — director of security standards and controls within Microsoft’s Cloud Operations and Innovation Physical Security Group — serving as vice chair. In these new roles, Hutchinson and Black will lead the IBTAB in guiding SIA’s engagement with operators of critical infrastructure in the private and public sectors and promoting the advancement and adoption of innovative biometric and digital identification solutions.