Bjorn Hjelm, Verizon's lead identity architect, set up dozens of meetings — and stands as a reference

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Bjorn Hjelm was one of the architecture's primary champions and evangelists from inside Verizon, where he was lead identity architect — and vice-chairman of the OpenID Foundation, placing him at the standards center of the identity world. Jonathan Hare's 2024 record credits him with setting up and joining dozens of meetings across Verizon's and AT&T's product units and the cross-carrier initiatives (ZenKey identity, RCS, robocall detection among them), and with providing the due-diligence validation that let AT&T's technologists trust Verizon's assessment. Now at Yubico, the Swedish security-key company (the dictated 'Yubicon' corrected here), he stands — per the record — as a willing reference to any major telco, on the stated ground that WebShield is the only solution he has seen that solves the global identity and authorization challenge.

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• His account, invited — the reference offer stands in the record