Primary Job Title Fellow, Connection Science Primary Organization 
MIT Media Lab
Location New York, New York, United States Regions Greater New York Area, East Coast, Northeastern US Gender Male
Website www.johnedge.me LinkedIn View on LinkedIn X (Twitter) View on X
John Edge is an entrepreneur specializing in systems design, operating at the forefront of technology driven transformation in financial services over the last two decades.
John is a recognized for establishing and implementing thematic change, include the algorithm-driven trading businesses for the global markets divisions of Lehman Brothers
and then JP Morgan. John went on to cofound Redkite, a FinTech company which designed and deployed the first real-time trade surveillance system for global markets. Then latterly applying digital identity and Blockchain to digital inclusion systems in financial services and the humanitarian sector.
John is currently focused on systems change through the design and implementation of new organizations and tools focused on transforming the value and use of digital identity across markets and geographies.
John is the cofounder and chairman emeritus of the Whitechapel Think Tank, a Public-Private forum for the UK Government, Bank of England, Financial Conduct Authority and industry to explore the potential for Distributed Ledger Technologies.
John is the co-founder and chairman of ID2020, a Public-Private Partnership designed to address the market failures that have led to the vulnerable, especially women and children, being unable to receive protection under international and local law through lack of recognized identity.
