Governing Board

Marie Jordan is Senior Director of Global Product, Policies and Programs at Visa, where she leads ecosystem engagement and advocacy across international initiatives related to digital payments, digital identity, authentication, and wallet infrastructure. With more than two decades of experience advancing global standards and fostering cross‑industry collaboration, she supports the development of secure, interoperable, and scalable technology solutions.

In her role, Marie helps shape global standards and industry efforts influencing digital credentials, authentication practices, and wallet technology. She is known for emphasizing interoperability, privacy, and real‑world applicability, and for bridging technical, regulatory, and operational perspectives to help emerging technologies move from specification to deployment.

Marie has authored policy papers and contributed formal responses to government consultations focused on digital identity and financial inclusion, and works closely with public‑ and private‑sector stakeholders worldwide to promote trusted digital infrastructure. As a member of the Open Wallet Foundation Governing Board, she supports the Foundation’s mission to advance open, interoperable, and privacy‑preserving wallet technologies.

Ola Ben Har is the global Developer Relations Lead for Payments at Google, covering a broad set of products such as Google Wallet, Google Pay and Chrome Autofill for Payments. She brings over a decade of experience in managing developer engagement programs across multiple product areas and has been instrumental in setting the vision, developer strategy and go-to-market efforts for these products. Ola Ben Har owns all open source efforts for Payments and Wallet at Google. The open source tools built by the team are used by hundreds of thousands of developers today. 

Ola Ben Har is a member of the Governing Board at the OpenWallet Foundation (Linux Foundation)  representing Google as a relying party, Google Wallet as well as Android and Chrome. 

What gets me up in the morning? Working in an environment that is dynamic and innovative, where I can be involved in setting both technical and business direction, exposed to the latest research technology, working with the best technologists, and actively engaged with customers, analysts and domain specialists, in order to build solutions that truly impact people’s lives, personal or professional. December, 2004

Bill Ren holds an EMBA and Master Degree from PeKing University, and a CS Bachelor Degree from Shanghai Jiaotong University. Since Joining Huawei in 2000, Bill served as an Intelligent Network Research and Development Engineer, Product Manager and Architect of India Branch, General Manager of Business OSS, Vice President of Network OSS, Vice President of Network OSS Strategy and MKT, Vice President of Solution MKTG, etc. He has accumulated rich experience in R&D, marketing and product management.

Mr. Ren Xudong（Bill Ren) now serves as Director of Open Source & Developer Development Department and the Chief Open Source Liaison Officer of Huawei. Now he is the Board member of CNCF and OWF. He participated in the launch and building out of open source projects, such as ONAP, OPNFV, Akraino, OPEN-O, OpenHarmony and openEuler. In this role，he is fully responsible for using open source means to build industrial ecology, expand industrial space, build a healthy and harmonious industrial environment.

Jaehoon Shim is the co-founder and CEO of Hopae. In 2021 Jaehoon and the team built COOV, the official blockchain-based COVID-19 vaccination credential system for South Korea. The system managed over 43M users daily and around 4 billion verifications with 86M edge agents nation-wide while using W3C DID and VCDM. COOV also successfully established international interoperability for mutual recognition with EU and Singapore. For his contributions, Jaehoon received commendation from the minister.

Jaehoon Shim, with a Computer Science BS from UIUC, brings experience from his time as a blockchain researcher at LG. As a founder and principal organizer of SSIMeetup Korea, he champions self-sovereign identity technologies. His work includes translating W3C’s DID and VC specifications into Korean as an official version, reflecting his commitment and advocacy for a digital future.