Ștefan Neagu, Co-Founder of Persona Ștefan Neagu, Co-Founder of Persona

Ștefan Neagu is co-founder of Persona, the decentralized solution for identity management. He has extensive experience in the financial sector, having worked for ABN Amro and the Royal Bank of Scotland, where he was part of major projects such as migrating to a new core banking system and implementation of the internet banking application. He now dedicates his time to Persona and developing the ARK blockchain platform, but also loves learning about dinosaurs from his 4.5-year-old son.

  • A ‘whole new world’ for scammers: How blockchain would stop Aladdin

    A ‘whole new world’ for scammers: How blockchain would stop Aladdin

    In 1992, when Aladdin’s romantic magic carpet ride stole the hearts of audience members around the world, were people really that concerned with identity theft and fraud? Certainly, the concept of pretending to be someone you’re not long out-dates this Disney classic. But when we compare the societal shift that has occurred in the last 27 years, the discourse around ‘identity theft’ has changed greatly.