Ali Nazem

Ali Nazem

Head of North America Sales @ Keyless (part of Ping Identity)

About

I’m a sales and GTM executive specializing in digital identity, authentication, and privacy-first biometric solutions. With 25+ years leading revenue growth and strategic partnerships across startups and public companies, I’ve helped organizations reduce fraud, simplify onboarding, and deploy privacy-preserving technologies. Currently Head of North America Sales at Keyless, I help clients move beyond passwords using zero-knowledge biometrics. Previously at Mitek, I led enterprise sales strategy for top-tier financial institutions. I thrive on complex challenges. translating client needs into technical solutions, building long-term trust, and driving adoption across global teams. Let’s connect if you're building the future of digital identity.

Country

United States

City

San Francisco

Industry

Computer & Network Security

Skill

Sales Forecasting, Technical Product Sales, Direct Sales, Strategic Planning, Sales Presentations, Cybersecurity, Enterprise Technology Sales, Early-Stage Startups, Sales Leadership, Needs Assessment, Software Solutions, ISV, Service Implementation, Communication, C-Level, Outside Sales, Business Savvy, Customer Satisfaction, Cross-Selling, Account Executives

Experience

Keyless (part of Ping Identity)

Head of North America Sales

Keyless (part of Ping Identity)

LinkedIn
2024-11 - Present · 1 yr 11 mos

United States

Keyless is a biometric authentication company on a mission to redefine biometrics. We envision a world where biometric technology can be used without risking user privacy - a world where you can use your facial biometrics to log in, make payments, and recover your accounts instantly, without needing to store your biometric data anywhere. A world without passwords, PINs, or OTPs - a world that is truly Keyless.

Mitek Systems

Senior Client Partner - Strategic Accounts

Mitek Systems

LinkedIn
2021-9 - 2024-11 · 3 yrs 3 mos

San Francisco, California, United States

Own overall client satisfaction and the continuing growth and evolution of the client’s business and strategy around digital identity. Provide leadership and direction to client and capability teams, fully leveraging all direct and indirect resources and ensuring optimal levels of productivity, service, communications, & quality with cross-functional teams for assigned clients. Direct team activities to ensure collaboration and partnership leveraging the company’s full complement of resources to support the business for ID Proofing, Biometrics and Authentication use cases.

Mitek Systems

Senior Sales Director - Strategic Accounts

Mitek Systems

LinkedIn
2019-9 - 2021-9 · 2 yrs 1 mo

San Francisco Bay Area

Mitek (NASDAQ: MITK) is a global leader in mobile capture and digital identity verification solutions built on the latest advancements in AI and machine learning. Our leadership in identity verification, including facial biometrics, image capture technology and ID card verification enables customers to confidently onboard users, verify identities within seconds and strengthen security against cybercrimes. Mitek products power and protect millions of identity evaluations as well as mobile deposits every day, around the world.

ShoCard - acquired by Ping Identity (March 2020)

Advisor - Founding Team Member

ShoCard - acquired by Ping Identity (March 2020)

LinkedIn
2019-7 - 2020-2 · 8 mos

San Francisco Bay Area

ShoCard was acquired by Ping Identity in March 2020

ShoCard - acquired by Ping Identity (March 2020)

VP, Business Development - Founding Team Member

ShoCard - acquired by Ping Identity (March 2020)

LinkedIn
2015-7 - 2019-6 · 4 yrs

Cupertino, California

ShoCard is a blockchain identity platform providing a simple and intuitive mobile application using biometrics that enterprises can adopt for definitive authentication while protecting users privacy. This allows for a variety of use cases such as frictionless login services without username/passwords, repeat authentication, true-digital signature with non-perishable audit-trail and transaction authorization to prevent fraud.

Rocket Fuel Inc.

Director, Enterprise Sales

Rocket Fuel Inc.

LinkedIn
2013-1 - 2015-4 · 2 yrs 4 mos

San Francisco Bay Area

Certified experts at predictive modeling and data-driven targeting, Rocket Fuel intelligently connect consumers with brands. We’re pioneering and applying new technologies to process staggering amounts of data and deliver one-to-one marketing at scale. We find all the perfect matches for our customers. Rocket Fuel is the leading provider of artificial intelligence advertising solutions that transform digital media buys into self-optimizing engines that learn and adapt in real time—all the time—to exceed advertising goals from awareness to sales. Over 500 of the world’s leading brands rely on Rocket Fuel to power their display, mobile, video, and social-media initiatives. And we’re just getting started.

Buysight, Inc. (acquired by AOL, Inc. in 2012)

Vice President, Sales

Buysight, Inc. (acquired by AOL, Inc. in 2012)

LinkedIn
2011-5 - 2012-12 · 1 yr 8 mos

Head of Sales reporting to the CEO - Part of the Buysight management team that led to the acquisition by AOL's Advertising.com Group in December of 2012 Buysight gathers shopping transaction and activity data and transforms it into real-time insight, scoring every shopper’s intent to purchase specific products. Our acquisition, remarketing, and real-time brand programs deliver increased visits and conversions and lower your cost of marketing. Founded in 2008 by pioneers in Internet advertising, Buysight is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. Specialties: Remarketing, Customer Acquisition, Real-Time Branding

Metro Newspaper Advertising Services, Inc.

SVP, National Digital Business

Metro Newspaper Advertising Services, Inc.

2007 - 2011-5 · 4 yrs

Metro is a full service newspaper planning and buying agency working with every newspaper in the country. At our core, we are a local media platform that allows our agency partners to work with one single point of contact for their all their local efforts in print and online. On the digital side, we work with local websites across the country consisting of all the leading newspaper, broadcast, business journal, alternative weekly, and campus sites. Our goal is to ease the process of buying local sites for our partners by providing one central point of contact. All of the local sites have quality editorial content with valuable visitors focused on their community. Whether your clients are looking to heavy up in specific regions or create a national footprint leveraging the local audience, our goal is to work with you to create an unbiased plan specifically created to meet your clients' needs at the lowest CPMs available.

Metro Newspaper Advertising Services, Inc.

Vice President - Western Sales Region

Metro Newspaper Advertising Services, Inc.

2004 - 2007 · 3 yrs
Metro Newspaper Advertising Services, Inc.

Western Regional Manager

Metro Newspaper Advertising Services, Inc.

2002-9 - 2004 · 1 yr
Carat

Director of Business Development

Carat

LinkedIn
2000-9 - 2002-8 · 2 yrs

San Francisco

Carat

Associate Media Director

Carat

LinkedIn
1999-3 - 2002-8 · 3 yrs 6 mos

San Francisco

Education

San Francisco State University

San Francisco State University

LinkedIn

Ali Nazem's Contact Information

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